History of Dodge City and Ford County
Table of Contents
Articles on Dodge City and Ford County
- Introduction
- "Adobe Walls Fight," from The Rath
Trail
- April 5, 1873: Ford County
Is Organized
- "The Bull Fight at Dodge," from
Kansas Historical Quarterly
- "At the Other
End of the Bridge," Dodge City Times, March 18, 1886
- Benjamin Cardozo Meets Gunslinger Bat Masterson,
the NY State Bar Association Journal
- "Ham Bell's Birthday Picnics," by
Harry Chrisman, 1964
- Ham Bell and "The Last Round-Up,"Dodge
City Daily Globe, October 11, 1929
- Churches in Old Dodge City
- Cooking In
Kansas with pioneer cookbooks, recipes, and cowboy chuckwagon food
- Coronado Cross, east of Ft.
Dodge
- Coronado
Cross Park Flowers, near Ft. Dodge, KS, by Fred Meyer Jr.
- "Cowboy Capital," from
The Rath Trail, Dodge City 1872
- Dr. Samuel Crumbine, Dodge City Pioneer
Doctor, from KSHS
- Dodge City (KS) History
- Dodge City, The Cowboy Capital and the Great Southwest; by Robert M. Wright, 1913, Dodge City Founder
- "Dodge
City Varieties -- A Summer Interlude of Entertainment, 1878" from
KanColl - Ham Bell introduces Dodge City, KS to the
Can-Can, July 4th, 1878.
- Dodge City: "The Beautiful, Bibulous
Babylon of the Frontier," by Robert Wright
- "The Dodge City Cowboy Band," from
Kansas Historical Quarterly KanColl
- Dodge City Cow Boy
Band (Photo of Chalk Beeson's famous band)
- Dodge City Shootout: The Deaths of Levi
Richardson and Frank Loving, by Roger Myers
- Dodge House Hotel, 1873, Ellen M.
Biddle, 1907 Rare details of the most famous Dodge City hotel.
- Wyatt Earp, by John H. Flood, Jr.,
1926 Wyatt Earp's first autobiographical attempt.
- "Wyatt Earp Back In Town," Dodge City
Times, July 7, 1877
- Wyatt
Earp and the "Buntline Special" Myth, Kansas Historical
Quarterly
- Wyatt Earp Deposition, 1878,
Concerning "Skunk Curley", Dodge City New
- Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, by
Stuart N. Lake, 1931
- "Ferries in
Kansas, Part IX--Arkansas River," Kansas Historical
Quarterly
- 4th of July, 1890, Fort
Dodge Soldiers Home, by Kenneth W. Felts
- "Fort
Dodge," from Early Ford County, by Ida Ellen Rath
- Fort Dodge: A Letter, 1867, from Fort
Dodge, Sentry of the Western Plains, by Dr. Leo E. Oliva
- "Freighting: A
Big Business on the Santa Fe Trail," from Kansas Historical
Quarterly
- Germans in the Civil War: I goes to fight
mit Sigel, by Dr. William Keel
- "Gunsmoke" 50th Anniversary 1955-2005
- Hinkle-Heinz House (1881), Dodge
City
- Historic Sketches
of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest, by Joseph G. McCoy,
The Pioneer Western Cattle Shipper, 1874
- John Henry "Doc" Holliday, biography of Dodge City gunfighting dentist
- George M. Hoover, Dodge City's First
Merchant, First Elected Mayor, First Banker
- Kansas Heritage Center, Dodge City,
Records Life and Times of Kansas
- The Last Round-Up, Dodge City
Daily Globe, October 11, 1929
- Lawmen of Dodge City and Ford
County
- Bat Masterson November 26, 1853 – October 25, 1921; Biography
- W.B. 'Bat' Masterson Returns to Dodge,
Sports reporter Bat Masterson last visit to Dodge City, 1910, by Robert K.
DeArment
- Merry
Christmas Card from Stuart N. Lake, c. 1933 to Heinie Schmidt, Dodge
City
- Das Müller-Schmidt-Haus (1881) auf
Deutsch
- Mueller Housewarming, Ford
County Globe, November 1, 1881
- Emelia Mueller-John Chambliss Wedding,
Dodge City Times, June 13, 1889
- Henry Mueller Interview, Dodge
City Journal, June 13, 1940
- John Mueller, Dodge City Boot Maker and
Cattleman
- A Nostalgic Tour of Downtown Dodge City,
1930-40s, by Judge Gene B. Penland
- Old West Web Sites from around the
world
- The Prairie
Traveler: A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions, by Randolph B.
Marcy (War Department, 1859) KanColl
- The
Preacher's Kid, by Dr. C. Robert Haywood
- Ida Ellen Rath, Illustriana
Kansas, 1933
- The Rath
Trail, by Ida Ellen Rath, Kansas Collection
- Adam Schmidt Death Notice, Dodge City
Times, May 4, 1911
- Adam Schmidt Death Notice, Dodge City
Journal, May 5, 1911
- Heinie F. Schmidt, from Connelley's
Kansas and Kansans, 1918
- Southwest Kansas
Wildflowers, Fred's Flower Finder, by Fred Meyer Jr., Dodge
City
- Tough
Daisies, by Dr. C. Robert Haywood
- The True Story of Clay Allison
and Wyatt Earp, by Roger Myers
- "US
Surveyors Massacred by Indians" August 24, 1874, Kansas
Historical Quarterly
- Urban Renewal Destroys Front Street,
1970
- Robert M. Wright, 1840-1915, biography
- Robert
M. Wright, Dodge City Founder, from Connelley's Kansas and
Kansans, 1918
- Frederick Zimmermann, Dodge City and
Old West Gunsmith
FCHS Web Site
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