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DODGE CITY, THE COWBOY CAPITAL
FOR TEN YEARS THIS WAS THE LARCEST 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, DODGE CITY BECAME THE SHIPPING
CENTER OF THE SOUTHWEST. THE HUNTERS WHO EXTERMINATED
THE BUFFALO HERE MARKETED SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS WORTH
HUNDREDS OF WAGON TRAINS CARRIED
BY 1875 MOST
CATTLE TRAILS LED TO DODCE; IN 1884 TEXAS DROVERS ALONE
BROUCHT 106 HERDS NUMBERINC 300,000 HEAD. AS A RENDEZ-
VOUS FOR HUNTERS, TRAPPERS, COWBOYS, SOLDIERS, RAILROAD
BUILDERS, BULLWHACKERS, INDIANS, SALOON KEEPERS, DANCE
HALL GIRLS, THUCS AND CAMBLERS, THE TOWN BECAME NOTORIOUS
FOR VICE AND VIOLENCE. NUMEROUS VICTIMS WERE BURIED ON
BoOT HILL. EVENTUALLY LAW WAS ENFORCED BY_ SUCH "TWO-GUN
MARSHALS" As Bat MASTERSON, WYATT EARP AND BILL TILGHMAN.
NEAR DODCE 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
OF HIDES AND MEAT.
SUPPLIES TO WESTERN TOWNS AND ARMY POSTS.
PRAIRIE.
ERECTED BY
KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND STATE HICHWAY COMMISSION
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