In its heyday this famous Wild West town saw a whole posse of sheriffs - Batt Masterson, Bill Tilghman and above all the notorious Wyatt Earp - plus a host of buffalo hunters who within a few years slaughtered millions of buffaloes at 100 dollars a time. The town's wild past can be relived in Historic Front Street with its reconstructions of the celebrated Long Branch Saloon, the barber's shop, the general store and many other establishments familiar from Western films. In the Boot Hill Museum, on the hill of that name (the cemetery), are other relics of a bloodstained past. Your nose will tell you how Dodge City gets its livelihood nowadays: with 50,000 cattle passing through on the meadows to the east, this is the United State's largest cattle-trading centre.
Dodge City (pop. 25,000) was named after Grenville M Dodge.
Boot Hill is a Dodge City complex that surrounds the historic cemetery and includes the Fort Dodge jail and a replica of Front Street as it was in the 1870s.
Hours:
May 31 to September 6: 8am-8pm
September 7 to May 30: 9am-5pm; Sun:1pm-5pm
Always closed on: New Year's Day (January 1), Thanksgiving - USA (4th Thursday, November ), Christmas - Christian (December 25)
The Home of Stone in Dodge City has two and a half foot thick limestone walls that have preserved it since 1881. Rooms are furnished in period with exhibits such as memorabilia of local pioneer women, antique clothing and household items.
The Carnegie Center for the Arts in Dodge City is a community arts center with original works by local, regional and national artists. The building was completed in 1902 and was a Carnegie library.
Fort Dodge was established in 1865 on the Santa Fe Trail. It offered protection to wagon trains, the US mail service and served as a supply base for troops engaged in the Indian Wars. The original buildings were sod houses but several stone houses, erected in 1867, are still used.
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