American Cowboy Magazine recognized Dodge City in 2009 as a top Western town. True West Magazine also named it among the top ...

In 1872, Bill “Bully” Brooks became the first ... and the then-28-year-old set about putting together a force to help him keep Dodge City in line. Among the half-dozen officers Earp brought ...

and Carlisle was the Dodge City of the Middle Ages.” So, just how bad was Dodge, really, and why do we remember it that way? The story begins in 1872, when a miscellaneous collection of a dozen ...

Dodge City in the 1870s was a wild ... officers of the fort established there — depending on whom you asked. By 1872, this oasis in the Great American Desert was populated, or at least visited ...

In 1872, Richard was serving as Commandant of Fort Dodge, when the A.T & S.F. Railroad reached the site of today's Dodge City then called "Buffalo City." Later that year, the newly formed Town Company ...

Hoover’s saloon and cigar shop, the city’s first business, which opened in 1872. Visitors also will see rare and historic firearms, a typical 1870s Dodge City print shop (that prints and sells ...

what started initially as Fort Dodge eventually grew into Dodge City in 1872. The city quickly became an alternative route for cowboys on long cattle drives on the Texas Trail. This traffic ...