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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.
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.
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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]
Dodge City's importance as a division point on the railroad, with yards, a roundhouse and shops, and as the last significant rest stop for westbound passengers before a large undeveloped region, led the railroad to build a large structure with a Harvey House lunchroom and dining room.
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 ...
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
Sep. 27—NEW COLUMBIA — The White Deer Feed Mill in Union County will start production with 51 employees in mid-October. On Friday, Country View Family Farms LLC, a Middletown-based hog ...