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Ford County Historical Society
Dodge City, Kansas

New address: https://fordcountyhistory.org/

The John Mueller family on Emelia Mueller\\'s wedding day, June 12, 1889.

 
[Photograph: The Mueller-Schmidt House,
Emelia Mueller\\'s wedding day, June 12, 1889.  John Mueller and son Henry
on balcony; Emelia on lower step, Karoline Mueller and John Chambliss,
groom, on porch.  All rights reserved, Ford County Historical Society,
Dodge City, KS.]

The Mueller-Schmidt House (1881) Museum

The history of Ford County, Kansas "Home of Stone"
An Old West Cattleman\\'s Mansion
"...the finest residence in the West"- Dodge City, Kansas Times, 1881

(Listed on the National Register of Historic Places)

The Mueller-Schmidt House kitchen.
 
[Photograph: The Mueller-Schmidt House
kitchen. All rights reserved, Ford County Historical Society, Dodge City,
KS.]

Mueller-Schmidt House Museum QT Panorama Virtual Tour
Mueller-Schmidt House Museum Tours

Ham Bell\\'s New Year card, circa 1935. FCHS, all rights reserved.
 
[photograph: Ham Bell\\'s New Year card, circa 1935]

Dodge City Tourism & Southwest Kansas Tourism

Old Dodge City historic district map

John Henry "Doc" Holliday, biography of Dodge City gunfighting dentist

"Big Nose" Kate Elder, biography of "Doc" Holliday\\'s long-time friend





The history of the Old West -- the buffalo hunters, cattlemen, cowboys, lawmen and gunfighters, merchants, and pioneer families -- of the Cowboy Capital, Dodge City, the Queen of the Cowtowns, and Fort Dodge, the Santa Fe Trail, and Ford County, Kansas


Territorial Kansas, 30 May 1854
Kansas Day, 29 January 1861
Ford County, Kansas Organization
Filed, 1 October 1872
Signed, 5 April 1873
Dodge City Town Company, 15 August 1872
Incorporated, 5 November 1875

Front Street, Dodge City, c. 1879, looking west from Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train depot. John Mueller\\'s bootshop, the first in Dodge City, with black boot in front, is third building from right. Dodge House hotel is second.
 
[Photograph: Front
Street, Dodge City, c.1879, looking west from Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe train depot.  John Mueller\\'s bootshop is building with black boot in
front, third building from right.  All rights reserved,
FCHS.]

William B. \\'Bat\\' Masterson, Ford County Sheriff and Dodge City citizen. All rights reserved, FCHS.

 
[Photo: William B. Bat Masterson, Ford County
Sheriff and citizen. All rights reserved, FCHS.]

Ham Bell, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson: Dodge City Lawmen

Dodge City Peace Commission, June, 1883. Wyatt Earp, front row, second from left. Bat Masterson, back row, third from left.
 
[Photograph image: Original photograph of the \\'Dodge City Peace
Commission\\' in June, 1883. Front, l-r; Chas. E. Bassett, Wyatt S. Earp,
Frank McLain, and Neil Brown. Back, l-r; W. H. Harris, Luke Short, W. B.
Bat Masterson, and W. F. Petillon. This is the version with Petillon
beside Masterson. All rights reserved. FCHS.]

Braddock Old West Photograph Gallery
Images of pioneers, cowboys, lawmen, old Dodge City



[Painting: Millions of American Bison - "buffalo" - roamed the plains of the midwest.]

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FCHS Web Site Credits and Membership Information

FCHS Board Members

I think it was the distinguishing trait of Wyatt Earp, the leader of the Earp brothers, that more than any man I have ever known, he was devoid of physical fear. He feared the opinion of no one but himself and his self respect was his creed. W. B. \\'Bat\\' Masterson, Tombstone Prospector, August 16, 1910


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FCHS 2009 Annual Meeting

Web site initial posting January 2002.   Updated: 14 November 2017.
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