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.
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