Dodge City, Kansas founded in 1872 from its very beginning’s was a lawless town. Many newspaper accounts during the early days proclaimed the town to be as “rough a community as ever flourished under one flag.” Some have claimed the reason for the town’s recalcitrant reputation is that the majority of the businesses at the whistle-stop catered at first to the buffalo hunter and then to the rowdy drovers. The economic growth of this makeshift community standing at the edge of the flat Arkansas River bottom depended in large part on the trail hands and their immoral conduct. To learn more about the legends of Dodge City go to A Man In A Black Derby Hat.
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