Dodge City, The Cowboy Capital

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DODGE CITY, THE COWBOY CAPITAL FOR TEN YEARS THIS WAS THE LARGEST CATTLE MARKET IN THE WORLD AND FOR FIFTEEN IT WAS THE WILDEST TOWN ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER. ESTABLISHED WITH THE COMING OF THE SANTA FE IN 1872, DODCE CITY BECAME THE SHIPPING CENTER OF THE SOUTHWEST. THE HUNTERS WHO EXTERMINATED THE BUFFALO HERE MARKETED SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF HIDES AND MEAT. HUNDREDS OF WAGON TRAINS CARRIED SUPPLIES TO WESTERN TOWNS AND ARMY POSTS. BY 1875 MOST CATTLE TRAILS lED TO DODCE; IN 1884 TEXAS DROVERS ALONE BROUGHT 106 HERDS NUMBERING 300,000 HEAD. AS A RENDEZ- VOUS FOR HUNTERS, TRAPPERS, COWBOYS, SOLDIERS, RAILROAD BUILDERS, BULLWHACKERS, INDIANS, SALOON KEEPERS, DANCE HALL GIRLS, THUGS AND GAMBLERS, THE TOWN BECAME NOTORIOUS FOR VICE AND_VIOLENCE. NUMEROUS VICTIMS WERE BURIED ON BoOT HILL. EVENTUALLLY LAW WAS ENFORCED BY_SUCH "TWo-GUN MARSHALS AS BAT MASTERSON. WYATT EARP AND BILL TILGHMAN. NEAR DODGE_City_are thE SITES OF OLD FORT MANN AND FORT ATKINSON. THE Santa Fe TRAil WHICH THEY WERE ESTABLISHED TO PROTECT MAY STILL BE TRACED ON THE NEARBY PRAIRIE. ERECTED BY KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND STATE HICHWAY COMMISSION On the Ashes oFmy Canmp Greetings From the Nation's No.1City oFHistory andRomance fires was thiscity builf

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ONSTAGE DOCTIO 830PM АРАА 1789 179 JOA son, Hello Kid, we are it Parsun kant of bade Brou today but are living for this poond, fore many I rank Mr Leland Fauver, 1242 1 E, Ballard, SA Rb.s. anderen