The post closed in 1882 and became the Kansas State Soldier’s Home in 1890, which remains in operation.¢ Dodge City was founded in 1872, about the time the railroad arrived. The town was five ...

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

The metaphor is thought to have originated among U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, but it anchors the idea that early Dodge City, Kansas ... The story begins in 1872, when a miscellaneous ...

DODGE CITY, Kansas — Where the wide Kansas prairie ... that was moved to the site from the other side of the Santa Fe Railroad tracks running through the center of town. Today, the hotel serves ...

Gunfighters, buffalo hunters, drifters, railroad builders, traders, and soldiers from Fort Dodge, just up the road—that was Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s. Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson ...

Dodge City and the Birth of the Wild West by Robert R. Dykstra and Jo Ann Manfra, University Press of Kansas. My initial ... In just one year the Santa Fe Railroad shipped out 165,000 buffalo ...

Some of the attractions True Western Magazine highlighted that visitors can see in Abilene include: Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad ... and railroads made Dodge City, Kansas, famous in the ...

Dodge City? In the days when Wyatt Earp was making his name as a lawman in Dodge City, he banned guns north of the railroad tracks ... to the town in far western Kansas every year.