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KANSAS
HISTORICAL MARKER
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
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 I06 HERDS NUMBERINC 300,000 HEAD. AsA RENDEZ-
VOUS FOR HUNTERS, TRAPPERS, COWBOYS, SOLDIERS, RAILROAD
BUILDERS, BULLWHACKERS, INDIANS, SALOON KEEPERS, DANCE
HALL GIRLS, THUGS AND GAMBLERS, THE TOWN BECAME NOTORIOUS
NUMEROUS VICTIMS WERE BURIED ON
EVENTUALLY LAW WAS ENFORCED BY_SUCH "TWo-GUN
MARSHALS As BAt MASTERSON, WYATT EarP AND BILL TILGHMAN.
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
THE AMERICAN FRONTIER.
Industries
Distribuliox Center
MEling
Creameries
Caltle
Wheat
Elgkman :
Earp
OF HIDES AND MEAT.
SUPPLIES TO WESTERN TOWNS AND ARMY POSTS.
Maslerson
FOR VICE AND VIOLENCE.
BoOT HILL.
NEAR
PRAIRIE.
ERECTED BY
KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
Along the Santa Fe Trail
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DODGE
KANSAS
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