Everything Dodge City is known for
Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Dodge City.
Dodge City's Boot Hill Cemetery earned its name because gunfighters and cowboys were buried with their boots on during the wild cattle drive era when longhorns arrived by the millions from Texas.
Dodge City's Front Street 'deadline' separated the lawless cattle district from the respectable town, enforced by legendary lawmen including Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Bill Tilghman.
The Long Branch Saloon on Front Street in Dodge City operated from 1874 to 1885 and became immortalized through the TV show Gunsmoke, the longest-running primetime drama in American television history.
Before Dodge City had a proper jailhouse the law had a creative solution for drunks. They lowered troublemakers into a fifteen-foot-deep well and left them…
Railroad trainmasters rolling into Dodge City would grab their red caboose lanterns and carry them to the establishments south of the tracks. They hung those…
Dodge City's lawmen drew an invisible line right along the railroad tracks and called it the Deadline. North side was civilized territory where guns stayed…
On June 10 1883 eight men lined up for a photograph that became the most famous image of the Wild West. Wyatt Earp Bat Masterson and Luke Short stood shoulder…
In 1876 Dodge City was so lawless that officials brought in a tough young deputy named Wyatt Earp to tame the streets. Earp enforced the gun ordinance with his…
After the buffalo vanished Dodge City reinvented itself as the cowboy capital of the world. From 1875 to 1885 over five million head of Texas longhorn cattle…
In 1872 Dodge City was drowning in buffalo hides. Towers of stacked skins lined Front Street ten feet high and the smell could knock a horse sideways. Hunters…
From 1872 to 1879 Dodge City buried its unlucky on a lonely hill at the edge of town. Cowboys and drifters who died broke or sudden got hauled up there still…
14 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.
Dodge City's Front Street 'deadline' separated the lawless cattle district from the respectable town, enforced by legendary lawmen including Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Bill Tilghman.
Before Dodge City had a proper jailhouse the law had a creative solution for drunks. They lowered troublemakers into a fifteen-foot-deep well and left them…
Railroad trainmasters rolling into Dodge City would grab their red caboose lanterns and carry them to the establishments south of the tracks. They hung those…
The Long Branch Saloon on Front Street in Dodge City operated from 1874 to 1885 and became immortalized through the TV show Gunsmoke, the longest-running primetime drama in American television history.
Dodge City's lawmen drew an invisible line right along the railroad tracks and called it the Deadline. North side was civilized territory where guns stayed…
On June 10 1883 eight men lined up for a photograph that became the most famous image of the Wild West. Wyatt Earp Bat Masterson and Luke Short stood shoulder…
After the buffalo vanished Dodge City reinvented itself as the cowboy capital of the world. From 1875 to 1885 over five million head of Texas longhorn cattle…
In 1876 Dodge City was so lawless that officials brought in a tough young deputy named Wyatt Earp to tame the streets. Earp enforced the gun ordinance with his…
Deputy Marshal Ham Bell ran the Varieties Saloon on the wild south side of the Dodge City deadline. Around 1878 he brought in dancers who performed the can-can…
Even in the 1870s people could not resist grabbing a piece of history. When outlaws were killed in Dodge City crowds would rush in to cut buttons off coats…
From 1872 to 1879 Dodge City buried its unlucky on a lonely hill at the edge of town. Cowboys and drifters who died broke or sudden got hauled up there still…
In 1872 Dodge City was drowning in buffalo hides. Towers of stacked skins lined Front Street ten feet high and the smell could knock a horse sideways. Hunters…
Dodge City's Boot Hill Cemetery earned its name because gunfighters and cowboys were buried with their boots on during the wild cattle drive era when longhorns arrived by the millions from Texas.
Imagine wagons creaking across this very land, carrying dreams of trade and expansion. This is the Santa Fe Trail Ruts, a preserved section of the historic Santa Fe Trail. From the 1820s to the 1880s, this trail served…