Fort Smith to Little Rock to the duck-call capital — west to east across Arkansas
A west-to-east traverse of Arkansas from the Oklahoma border to the eastern flyway. KFSM Fort Smith was the western edge of the United States for nearly a century — fort, jail, and federal court for all of Indian Territory under Judge Parker. East to KLIT Bill and Hillary Clinton National in Little Rock: the Clinton Presidential Library on the Arkansas River, plus Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site (1957 desegregation crisis, federalized National Guard). Continue east to KSGT Stuttgart Municipal — the Duck Capital of the World, hosting the World's Championship Duck Calling Contest every Thanksgiving weekend since 1936. The Grand Prairie around Stuttgart is the most productive rice land in the United States — perfectly flat, naturally treeless, sitting directly under the Mississippi Flyway where roughly 40% of North America's waterfowl migrate. Three Arkansas geographies (Ouachita frontier, Arkansas River capital, alluvial rice prairie) in one chain.