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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1250071484. Dykstra, Robert R. The Cattle Towns. University of Nebraska Press, 1968. Dykstra, Robert R. and JoAnn Manfra. Dodge City and the Birth of the Wild West. University Press of Kansas, 2017. online review. Miner, Craig.
It was originally known as the "Dodge City/Ford County Events Center" [1] before United Wireless purchased the naming rights to the facility in 2010. [2] The conference center is one large space (7,200 sq feet) that can be subdivided into six separate areas. The arena has a seating capacity of 5,300 spectators.
Deputies Bat Masterson (standing) and Wyatt Earp in Dodge City, 1876. The scroll on Earp's chest is a cloth pin-on badge George Hoyt (spelled sometimes "Hoy") and other drunken cowboys shot their guns wildly around 3:00 am on July 26, 1878, including three shots into Dodge City's Comique Theater, causing comedian Eddie Foy, Sr. to throw himself ...
The Dodge City War was a bloodless conflict that took place between Luke Short and the Dodge City mayor, who tried to force Short to close the Long Branch Saloon and leave town. Luke called on several friends, including Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson , who supported him during his confrontation from April 28 to June 7, 1883.
Back in the days when the West was young and wild, 'Wild Bill' fought and loved and adventured with such famous frontiersmen as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp." [9] In reality, Earp was a virtually unknown assistant marshal in Dodge City when Wild Bill Hickok was murdered in 1876. [10] Earp served as a technical adviser on the film. [10]
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Dora Hand, stage name Fannie Keenan, Kelley's friend and singer, was killed at his home on October 4, 1878 As mayor Kelley worked with the Dodge City Peace Commission (photo) Dodge City in 1875. Beatty and Kelley Restaurant at the corner of First Avenue and Front Street. James H. "Dog" Kelley was the Dodge City, Kansas, mayor from
When citizens of Dodge City learned the Earps had been charged with murder after the gunfight, they sent letters endorsing and supporting the Earps to Judge Wells Spicer. [6] John Clum, owner of The Tombstone Epitaph and mayor of Tombstone while Earp was a gambler and lawman there, described him in his book It All Happened in Tombstone.