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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
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    • Coronado Cross
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      • Betty Cobb Braddock
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      • Leonard Kreutzer
      • Arthur W. Leonard
      • Floyd Russell Olson
      • Louis Sanchez
      • Irene Thompson
      • Juanita Wells
      • Elmer Wetzel
      • James A. “Jim” Williams
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    • Ford County Legacy Center
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    • Home of Stone Museum – Mueller-Schmidt House
      • Mueller-Schmidt House History
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DODGE CITY the COWBOY CAPITAL and The Great Southwest in The Days of The Wild Indian, the Buffalo, the Cowboy, Dance Halls, Gambling Halls and Bad Men by Robert M. Wright

Early Ford County by Ida Ellen Rath

The Rath Trail by Ida Ellen Rath

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