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April 5, 1873: Ford County Is Organized
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The Bull Fight at Dodge
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Dodge City, Kansas History
Dodge City Shootout: The Deaths of Levi Richardson and Frank Loving
Dodge House Hotel, 1873
First Dodge City AAA 150-mile Auto Race, 1916
The Harvey House and The Harvey Girls
The Hinkle-Heinz House (1881)
Living in the Mexican Village, As Seen Through the Eyes of a Small Child
The Mexican Village
The True Story of Clay Allison and Wyatt Earp
The Town of Ford, Kansas
Spearville
Spearville, Kansas – City of Windmills
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The Bellefont Community
Bloom
Fort Dodge
Colonel Richard Dodge on Blizzards While at Fort Dodge, Kansas
Fort Dodge (Ida Ellen Rath)
Fort Dodge Provides Reason for Dodge City’s Founding
Kansas Soldiers’ Home – 4th of July, 1890
Howell
Kingsdown
The Story of Windthorst, Kansas
Wright, Kansas, Its Past and Present
Rural Schools
Prairie View District 20
West Hopewell District 54
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Royal Township
Wheatland Township
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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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The History of The Ford County Historical Society 1931 – 1991
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