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        • Colonel Richard Dodge on Blizzards While at Fort Dodge, Kansas
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        • Fort Dodge Provides Reason for Dodge City’s Founding
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    • DODGE CITY, the COWBOY CAPITAL
      • Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Introduction
      • Chapter I. The Country, Time, and Conditions that Brought About Dodge City
      • Chapter II. Travel on Old Trails
      • Chapter III. Ranching in Early Days
      • Chapter IV. The Greatest Game Country on Earth
      • Chapter V. Indian Life of the Plains
      • Chapter VI. Wild Days with the Soldiers
      • Chapter VII. The Beginnings of Dodge City
      • Chapter VIII. Populating Boot Hill
      • Chapter IX. The Administration of Justice on the Frontier
      • Chapter X. The Passing of the Buffalo
      • Chapter XI. Joking with Powder and Ball
      • Chapter XII. When Conviviality Was the Fashion and the Rule
      • Chapter XIII. Resorts Other than Saloons, and Pastimes Other than Drinking
      • Chapter XIV. Where the Swindler Flourished and Grew Fat
      • Chapter XV. The Cattle Business and the Texas Drive
      • Chapter XVI. Distinguished Sojourners at Fort Dodge and Dodge City
      • Chapter XVII. The Great Decline and Subsequent Revival
      • Appendix
    • Early Ford County
      • Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgement
      • Preface
      • Foreword
      • CHAPTER ONE Peketon County Later Ford
      • CHAPTER TWO Along the Santa Fe Trail
      • CHAPTER THREE Dodge City Town Company
      • CHAPTER FOUR Dodge City and Other Towns
      • CHAPTER FIVE Organization of Ford County
      • CHAPTER SIX Buffalo Gold
      • CHAPTER SEVEN Indian Chief’s Narrow Escape
      • CHAPTER EIGHT Adobe Walls Fight
      • CHAPTER NINE Toll Bridge Gateway to the Southwest
      • CHAPTER TEN The Buffalo Trade
      • CHAPTER ELEVEN Cattle Men and Drives
      • CHAPTER TWELVE Men Who Made the West
      • CHAPTER THIRTEEN Dodge City Represented Ford County
      • CHAPTER FOURTEEN Newspapers in Ford County
      • CHAPTER FIFTEEN Business and Professional Men
      • CHAPTER SIXTEEN Early Day Men and a Diary
      • CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Dodge City a Sporting Town
      • CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Court House His Monument
      • CHAPTER NINETEEN A Good Place to Get a Start
      • CHAPTER TWENTY Herder Wagonmaster Lose Lives
      • CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Along the Sawlog
      • CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Tales of Early Day Youth
      • CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Dodge City Today Yesteryear
    • The Rath Trail
      • Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: Quite a Start in Life
      • Chapter 2: Indian Alliance
      • Chapter 3: Indian Depredations
      • Chapter 4: An Act of Bravery Saves Two Lives
      • Chapter 5: Among the Comanches
      • Chapter 6: Indian Depredation Case
      • Chapter 7: A Brave Man on the Plains
      • Chapter 8: The Railroad Builds Westward
      • Chapter 9: The Men Who Returned
      • Chapter 10: The Buffalo Trade
      • Chapter 11: Cowboy Capital
      • Chapter 12: Indian Chief’s Peril
      • Chapter 13: Adobe Wall Trading Post
      • Chapter 14: Adobe Walls Fight
      • Chapter 15: Indian Depredation Loss
      • Chapter 16: Lone Tree Massacre
      • Chapter 17: Fort Griffin and the Flats
      • Chapter 18: Where the Rath Trail Led
      • Chapter 19: A Time of Change
      • Chapter 20: Rath City Evacuated
      • Chapter 21: Rath’s Freight Trains
      • Chapter 22: The Bull Fight
      • Chapter 23: End of the Trail
      • Illustrations
  • Collections
    • C. Robert Haywood Collection
      • Black Cowboy Influence on Racial Prejudice: Dodge City and Hodgeman Colony
      • Cowtown Courts
      • The Dodge City War
      • The Jones and Plummer Trail
      • Unplighted Troths: Causes for Divorce in a Frontier Town During the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century
  • People
    • Hamilton Butler Bell
    • Ida Ellen Cox [Rath]
    • Dr. Samuel Jay Crumbine
    • Wyatt Earp
      • “Calling the Turn”
      • Wyatt Barry Staap Earp’s Activities in Dodge City, KS
      • “Wyatt Earp Back in Town”
      • Wyatt Earp Deposition
      • Wyatt Earp Family History
      • Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal
    • “Big Nose” Kate Elder
    • Ben Hodges
    • John Henry “Doc” Holliday, D.D.S.
    • George Merritt Hoover
    • John Mueller
    • Frederick Carl Zimmermann
  • Projects
    • Coronado Cross
    • Dodge City Trail of Fame
    • Dust Bowl Oral History Project
      • Fort Dodge
      • Betty Cobb Braddock
      • Lois Flanagan Bryson
      • Lola Adams Crum
      • Clayton Hall
      • Leonard Kreutzer
      • Arthur W. Leonard
      • Floyd Russell Olson
      • Louis Sanchez
      • Irene Thompson
      • Juanita Wells
      • Elmer Wetzel
      • James A. “Jim” Williams
      • Project Credits
    • Ford County Legacy Center
    • Fort Dodge
    • Historic Cemetery Tour
    • Home of Stone Museum – Mueller-Schmidt House
      • Mueller-Schmidt House History
    • Landmark Arts Project
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