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• About Us
  • FCHS Newsletters
  • Internships
  • Permission for Use
  • The History of The Ford County Historical Society 1931 – 1991
  • Volunteers
• Books
  • Early Ford County
    • Acknowledgement
    • CHAPTER EIGHT Adobe Walls Fight
    • CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Court House His Monument
    • CHAPTER ELEVEN Cattle Men and Drives
    • CHAPTER FIFTEEN Business and Professional Men
    • CHAPTER FIVE Organization of Ford County
    • CHAPTER FOUR Dodge City and Other Towns
    • CHAPTER FOURTEEN Newspapers in Ford County
    • CHAPTER NINE Toll Bridge Gateway to the Southwest
    • CHAPTER NINETEEN A Good Place to Get a Start
    • CHAPTER ONE Peketon County Later Ford
    • CHAPTER SEVEN Indian Chief’s Narrow Escape
    • CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Dodge City a Sporting Town
    • CHAPTER SIX Buffalo Gold
    • CHAPTER SIXTEEN Early Day Men and a Diary
    • CHAPTER TEN The Buffalo Trade
    • CHAPTER THIRTEEN Dodge City Represented Ford County
    • CHAPTER THREE Dodge City Town Company
    • CHAPTER TWELVE Men Who Made the West
    • CHAPTER TWENTY Herder Wagonmaster Lose Lives
    • CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Along the Sawlog
    • CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Dodge City Today Yesteryear
    • CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Tales of Early Day Youth
    • CHAPTER TWO Along the Santa Fe Trail
    • Foreword
    • Preface
    • Table of Contents
• Chapter I. The Country, Time, and Conditions that Brought About Dodge City
• Churches in Old Dodge City
• 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
• Contact
• Coronado Cross
• Dodge City
  • Dodge City Shootout: The Deaths of Levi Richardson and Frank Loving
  • Dodge House Hotel, 1873
  • First Dodge City AAA 150-mile Auto Race, 1916
  • Living in the Mexican Village, As Seen Through the Eyes of a Small Child
  • The Bull Fight at Dodge
  • The Dodge City Cowboy Band
  • The Harvey House and The Harvey Girls
  • The Hinkle-Heinz House (1881)
  • The Mexican Village
  • The True Story of Clay Allison and Wyatt Earp
• Dodge City, Kansas History
• DODGE CITY, the COWBOY CAPITAL
  • Appendix
  • Chapter II. Travel on Old Trails
  • Chapter III. Ranching in Early Days
  • Chapter IV. The Greatest Game Country on Earth
  • Chapter IX. The Administration of Justice on the Frontier
  • 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 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
  • Introduction
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
• Dr. Samuel Jay Crumbine
• Ford County
  • April 5, 1873: Ford County Is Organized
  • Cities
    • A History of Bucklin, Kansas
    • Spearville
      • Spearville, Kansas – City of Windmills
    • The Town of Ford, Kansas
  • Communities
    • 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 Bellefont Community
    • The Story of Windthorst, Kansas
    • Wright, Kansas, Its Past and Present
  • Rural Schools
    • Prairie View District 20
    • West Hopewell District 54
  • Townships
    • Royal Township
    • Wheatland Township
• Frederick Carl Zimmermann
• George Merritt Hoover
• HTML Site Map
• Ida Ellen Cox [Rath]
• Membership
• Mission Statement
• People
  • “Big Nose” Kate Elder
  • Ben Hodges
  • Hamilton Butler Bell
  • John Henry “Doc” Holliday, D.D.S.
  • John Mueller
  • Wyatt Earp
    • “Calling the Turn”
    • “Wyatt Earp Back in Town”
    • Wyatt Barry Staap Earp’s Activities in Dodge City, KS
    • Wyatt Earp Deposition
    • Wyatt Earp Family History
    • Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal
• Projects
  • Dodge City Trail of Fame
  • Dust Bowl Oral History Project
    • Arthur W. Leonard
    • Betty Cobb Braddock
    • Clayton Hall
    • Elmer Wetzel
    • Floyd Russell Olson
    • Irene Thompson
    • James A. “Jim” Williams
    • Juanita Wells
    • Leonard Kreutzer
    • Lois Flanagan Bryson
    • Lola Adams Crum
    • Louis Sanchez
    • 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
• The Rath Trail
  • Chapter 1: Quite a Start in Life
  • 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 2: Indian Alliance
  • Chapter 20: Rath City Evacuated
  • Chapter 21: Rath’s Freight Trains
  • Chapter 22: The Bull Fight
  • Chapter 23: End of the Trail
  • 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
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents

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