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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
Fort Smith National Historic Siteold photo of commissary when used as museum
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Fort Smith National Historic Site
April 27, 1888 Execution
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Three men were hanged on April 27, 1888.  Jackson Crow killed a prominent merchant named Charles Wilson in the Choctaw Nation in 1884. Owen Hill was convicted of the beating death of his mother-in-law and his wife. He was arrested after writing to a friend inquiring if his wife had died of her wounds. George Moss killed a rancher on the Red River after stealing his cattle.
Park staff and volunteers demonstrating using lindstock and slowmatch to ignite the cannon's primer  

Did You Know?
The soldiers who came to Fort Smith in 1817 were still using some 18th century technology and drill. The cannon was discharged using a lindstock and slowmatch to ignite the primer, which originally was loose powder or a turkey quill filled with powder.

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