City of Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas

Dodge City: Top 10 True Western Towns of 2009, True West Magazine

Ruling brings historic ledger closer to home: Dodge City's claim to docket listing Old West icons boosted by order, by Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press

Dodge City aims to regain artifact: Historic docket book turns up in Arizona auction house, by Jon Ruhlen, The Hutchinson News

Dodge City named one of the top 20 towns to live in the West by American Cowboy magazine

Why Not Dodge? Blog: Master Tourism Plan, Event Center, Casino, Sales Tax Issues

Don Steele, Dodge City tourism leader reviews Dodge City/Ford County Master Tourism Plan

The Beginnings of Dodge City, by Robert M. Wright, Town President

Populating Boot Hill, by Robert M. Wright

Kansas Antique Race Cars Photographs, jalopies and rails. First Annual Legends of McCarty Speedway. See: Racing in Kansas

Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame, Boot Hill Museum, Dodge City

Kansas Historic Preservation Resources

WWW-VL: US Agricultural History

WWW-VL: Wind Power In Kansas

Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy, Pro-clean Energy Advocacy Group

Dodge City Apartment Rentals, dodgecityhousing.com

Ford County KS Web Sites

Pioneer Kansas and Dodge City lawman "Ham Bell says the idea that he never drew a gun on a man when he was sheriff here in the early days is all wrong. He never shot a man, he says, and that was mainly because he was always careful to draw his gun in plenty of time before the other man drew his. "If I'd never drawn a gun," he says, "I wouldn't have lived a week." Dodge City Daily Globe, January 14, 1931

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Dodge City History

Mueller-Schmidt House (1881) Museum, Dodge City. QT Virtual Panorama Tour

Art and Theater

• Artists In Kansas KS Art Centers, Art Galleries, Art Museums
• Beats In Kansas: The Beat Generation in the Heartland
  with Dennis Hopper, Dodge City native
• William Burroughs Photo Gallery by George Laughead Jr., Beats In Kansas
• Dennis Hopper, Dodge City native; photograph by Larry Keenan [with artist Bruce Conner, Kansas native]
• Matt Bowlin, formerly Dodge City [click on Thursday Night Live - Spring 2003, March 6th show]
• Interview: Matt Bowlin, country music, Feb. 5, 2009, NewsOK
• Glenn Boyer, historian, friend of Dodge City
• Ceramics by Gene Bunker and Jack Stuart, Dodge City
• Tyrone Blea & Sonic Electrojet Productions, DJ, Kansas City [formerly Dodge City]
• Beth (Scholle) Bolton, PhD., Assoc. Dean, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; YouTube interview (Dodge City native)
• Carnegie Center for the Arts, Dodge City
• Dodge City Carnegie Library History from The Carnegie Legacy in Kansas, by Allen Gardiner
• Chistopher Cave, CaveArt, CaveVision, Dallas, TX, Digital video production, website design (Dodge City native)
• Ellis "Skip" Cave, inventor, chief scientist, Intervoice, Inc, Dallas, TX (Dodge City native)
• Norma Clare Paintings, Dodge City
• Cooking In Kansas KS Recipes, Cookbooks, Pioneer, Cowboy Cooking, Hamburgers
• daybydesign; Steffani Day and Micheal Day, ASAI, (360 Architecture, KC MO) Lawrence (Dodge City natives)
• Dodge City Trail of Fame
• Depot Theater Company , Dodge City
• Fresh Produce Art Collective, a group of artists devoted to the continuing creation and exhibition of new work; including Brandon "BC" Carl, Micheal Day, Gabe Dorsey, Joel Feldt (JOUVELT), Ruben Gaucin, and Yuri Zupancic [Dodge City natives]
• Friar Tuck and the Monks playing Friar Tuck's Music Machine, their standard intro from 1967. Pictures are from their induction into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame on March 22, 2008. (Ron Fitch, Ron Bowell, Don Pippitt, Richard France & Gary Livingston), Dodge City YouTube Video
• Dave Gunn, Chicago (Dodge City native)
• Stan Herd, Ford County native & Lawrence
• Remembering the two 'USS Block Islands', by Ben Hruska, curator, Block Island Historical Society, Rhode Island [Dodge City native]
• Novalus Band, including Jose Terrazas, Yuri Zupancic (formerly Dodge City); Lawrence
• Andrew Wade Nunn Blog, US Service Man from Dodge City
• Glenda Patterson The Gregory Agency Models
• Steven Ray, Dodge City
• Don Steele, Depot Theater, 25 years, Dodge City
• Eric Vanderboom, Dodge City & Tulsa, OK
• Barry Ward, Western Singer (Nominated 2003 Western Music Association
  Male Performer of the Year) Copeland
• Todd South, now at Chattanooga Times Free Press, TN: Hearst Award winning journalism student, University of Georgia, Athens [Dodge City native]
• Yeqiang Wang Painting, formerly Dodge City
• Linda Wilson, Dodge City, We Kan! Lending a Helping Hand
• Yuri Zupancic, Dodge City native
• The Kansas Guidebook for explorers, by Marci Penner. A tour of every organized city in the state. 432-page book with 400+ color photos and 3,597 entries.
• Jonathan Laughead, Clinical Genetics Volume 69 Issue 3, March 2006
• Doug L. Miller Music, humor, software, eulogies [formerly, Dodge City, Cimarron]
• Eulogy for Doug Miller, 1948-2007, Lawrence
• Douglas Luther Miller Eulogy, Brendan Lynch, Lawrence

Events and Festivals


• KS Art Events
• Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame Awards Boot Hill Museum, Dodge City
• Boot Hill Museum People of the Plains Native American exhibit, Dodge City

Dodge City Tourism & Attractions


• Allen Bailey,Dodge City Marshal
• Old Historic Dodge City District Map
• Boot Hill Bed & Breakfast, Dodge City
• Dodge City Days, Rodeo, Western Parade, Professional Barbecue Contest & Cowboy Food, Country Music
• Dodge City Trail of Fame, over 22 bronze stars and Wyatt Earp statue
• Dodge City & Ford County Tourist Attractions, Dodge City Conventions & Visitor Bureau
• Dodge City Roundup Rodeo, Dodge City
• Faro: Favorite Gambling Game of the Frontier, Wild West Magagzine
• "Fort Dodge," from Early Ford County, by Ida Ellen Rath
• Hawes Ranch Outfitters, Ford
• Kansas Pheasant Hunting, Cecil's Trail's End Hunting Lodge, guided hunt packages, near Dodge City
• Southwest (SW) Kansas Wildflowers: "Fred's Flower Finder", by Fred Meyer Jr., Dodge City
• Coronado Cross Park Wildflowers, near Ft. Dodge, by Fred Meyer Jr.
• Old Dodge City Photo Parlor
• Kansas Wheat House, Cimarron
• The Wild West Blog, Tom Goodrich, Wild West Magazine
• Mason-Dixon Wild West Deb Goodrich
• Windthorst Church: Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Windthorst

General

• Kansas Gas Prices, Compare Dodge City gas prices
• Dodge City High School Class of 1967 MySpace Reunion
• Dodge City Tourism Coalition, an alliance of non-profit Western Heritage venues
• Dodge City/Ford County Development Corp.
• Dodge City Area Chamber of Commerce
• PR of the month -- Feel the excitement, live the history, experience the warmth. Surprise yourself with plenty of sunshine and pleasant, forested rolling hills.
• Drug Policy Forum of Kansas
• Ford County Water Pollution (Dodge City) [highest TRI chemical dumping in the state of Kansas]
• Kansas Ground Water Conditions gwpc.org
• Southwest Kansas Drought Page, NOAA's National Weather Service [By 2020, some two-thirds of the irrigated acreage in Kansas will no longer enjoy a reliable water supply, state officials predict.]
• Kansas Energy Council, Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Policy and Economics, 2007 August [.pdf]
• Center for Climate Strategies (CCS), nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that helps public officials reduce greenhouse gas pollution
• Dodge City Daily Globe Ethanol Coverage
• University of Minnesota study shows that even turning all of America's corn into ethanol would meet only 12 percent of our gasoline demand. Related Dodge City ethanol issues
• DodgeBoard.com, Dodge City community discussion forums
• Meatpacking remakes rural U.S. towns in new immigration frontier AP Article on Dodge City
• Meatpacking industry has a long history of reliance on immigrant laborer, by Joel Dyer, Fort Collins CO Weekly, December 26, 2006
• Compassionate Care Coalition for Medical Marijuana
• Kansas Equality Coalition SW KS, Dodge City
• SW KS Girl Scouts Tumbleweed Council, Dodge City
• Nat's Yoga & Dance Studio, Dodge City
• RodeoCruelty.com
• Greg Starks, Dodge City, former CFAB Chair
• Jeff Thorpe, Fidelity State Bank; President, Boot Hill Gaming, Inc., Dodge City Casino, Board of Directors - Boot Hill Museum, Inc., Testamony House before the Federal and State Affairs Committee, Topeka, Kansas, March 12, 2007; in support of legislation to allow for expanded gaming in the State of Kansas [.pdf file]
• Walmart Watch

Historical House Museum

• Mueller-Schmidt House (1881) Museum, Dodge City. QT Virtual Panorama Tour
• Das Müller-Schmidt-Haus (1881) auf Deutsch, Dodge City
• Old West Dodge City T-Shirts, cards, coffee mugs, from the FCHS Collection

History Groups

• Kansas History Resources
  KS Genealogy, Libraries, Museums
• Ford County Historical Society, Dodge City at Kansas State Library BlueSkyways
• Kansas Cattle Towns Coalition
• Ford County, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka
• American Frontier Reenactment Guild
• Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association
• Kansas Museums Association
• KMA Museum Resource Links
• Mountain-Plains Museums Association 10-state museum network
• Santa Fe Trail Wet/Dry Route Chapter

History Web Directories

• Ford County and Dodge City History Sites, FCHS
• Kansas Heritage Group Towns, History, Old West KS, Artists, Museums
• Kansas History Web Sites Native American Tribes to 20th Century History
• Kansas History Resources
  Kansas Genealogy, Groups, Libraries, Museums
• Kansas Official History Site
• Kansas Timeline

Humanities

• Kansas Humanities Council
• KHC Kansas Chautauqua

Libraries

• Dodge City Public Library
• Southwest Kansas Library System, Dodge City
• Kansas Heritage Center, Dodge City
• Kansas State Library, Topeka

Magazines

• Legend Magazine Kansas Life

Museums

• Boot Hill Museum Exhibits, Front Street, Dodge City
• Muller-Schmidt House Museum, Ford County's "Home of Stone", Dodge City
• Mueller-Schmidt House Museum Myspace
• Southwest Pueblo Indian Pottery, Holmes Anthropology Museum, Wichita
• Stauth Memorial Museum, Montezuma
• Holmes Anthropology Museum WSU, Wichita
• Dodge City Master Tourism Plan, 2009
• Heberling Associates, Inc.
• Kansas Museums
• WWW-VL: History United States History Museums
• WWW-VL: USA Historic Sites
• WWW-VL: US Historic Preservation

Newspapers

• Dodge City Daily Globe
• High Plains Journal, Dodge City
• Hutchinson News
• SW Kansas Faith and Family, Dodge City

Website Tools For Non-Profits

• W3 Search Engines Internet search engines, search tips, anti-virus programs.
• WWW-VL Web Stacks: Electronic Research Library
• WWW-VL: Web Ethics

Government

• Dodge City Government
• State Representative Pat George, Republican, Dodge City
• Ford County Government
• Dodge City Casino Impact of casino gambling on communities - Issues, gambling problems, why it will not help Western Tourism
• Ford County Property Tax Search
• Ford County Census Facts
• Dodge City & Ford County Tax Exempt and Non-Profit Organizations
• Kansas Legislative Lobbyist Directory Registrations Office of the Kansas Secretary of State [.pdf file]
• Governmental Ethics Commission Rules for Lobbyist [.pdf file]
• Topeka, Kansas state capital
• Total USDA Subsidies, 1st district of Kansas (Rep. Jerry Moran), 1995-2005
• Kansas History Resources Kansas Government
• Kansas Meadowlark investigative research on Kansas government
• Evolution In Kansas Intelligent Design, Creationism, Evolution Theory
• WWW-VL: US History Federal Sources
• Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act [to track the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars in federal disbursements at www.federalspending.gov]

Schools and Colleges

• Dodge City Public Schools, USD 443
• Dodge City Catholic Diocesan Schools
• Dodge City Community College
• St. Mary of the Plains Alumni Association, Dodge City

Virtual Colleges

• EduKan Western Kansas Community Colleges
• Fort Hays State University Virtual College
• Kansas State University Div. of Continuing Ed.

Family History

• Dodge Family History, US
• Earp Family History
• Family History (all with Kansas ties)
• Kansas Collection Voices from the Past
• The Preacher's Kid, by Dr. C. Robert Haywood, Topeka [Fowler, Ford County native]

Genealogy

• Kansas Genealogical Society, Dodge City
• Kansas Heritage Interactive Genealogy
• Source List for Genealogy Research 1,000 genealogical links

Local History

• Kansas Timeline
• Territorial Kansas History links, KS Heritage Group
• Supplying the Frontier Military Posts, by Raymond L. Welty, 1938, from "The Kansas Historical Quarterly"
• Fort Atkinson on the Santa Fe Trail, 1850-1854, by Leo Oliva, 1974, "KS Historical Quarterly"
• Removal of the Osages from Kansas Part One , 1938, from "The Kansas Historical Quarterly"
• Removal of the Osages from Kansas Part Two , 1938, from "The Kansas Historical Quarterly"
• "Cowboy Capital," (Dodge City history), The Rath Trail, Dodge City 1872
• Dodge City Fire Department History
• "Adobe Walls Fight," from The Rath Trail (with drawing)
• "Violence in the Cattle Towns", by Jodi McEndarfer, Indiana University South Bend
• Ford County, KS 1883 List of Civil War Pensioners
• South Dodge City "At the Other End of the Bridge" Dodge City Times , March 18, 1886
• Cowboy Ballads , 1939, from "The Kansas Historical Quarterly"
• Ford County Towns History, Kansas Heritage Group
• Wyatt Earp [Kansas Cowtown Years], by John H. Flood, Jr., 1926
• The Gray County Seat War, Brendan M. Lynch: Kansas Humanities Council Grant [archive.org copy]
• Harvey Houses Hotels, Lunchrooms, Restaurants in the Old West
• Santa Fe Trail History, Kansas Heritage Group
• Interactive Santa Fe Trail
• Pioneer Trails From U.S. Land Surveys
• Dodge City 1914: First 300-Mile "Coyote Classic" Harley-Davidson's first racing team
• First Dodge City, Kansas, AAA 150-mile auto race, October 7, 1916, Racing In Kansas
• "Dodge City, Kansas; Hollywood For A Day", by Susan L. Sutton, Movie House History [April 1, 1939 Dodge City movie premiere]
• Jay Max Woodside, 1939 - 2004 , [Jay was born on Jan. 6, 1939 in Dodge City. Raced against Davie Ross.]
• Dodge City Sr. High School Classes of 1963-67 Reunions
• Mexican Village Reunion Dodge City [from archive.org]
• Moore's Longhorn Ranch, Bucklin
• Victorian West: Class and Culture in the Kansas Cattle Towns,
  by Dr. C. Robert Haywood
• Racing In Kansas KS Racers, Races, and Race Tracks
• Troy Burnett, No. 666, Jetmore Motorplex, July 30, 2005
• Kansas Hamburger History, including Bill Bunyan's Best Kansas Burger Places, Dodge City
• Slaughterhouse Blues The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America, by Don Stull, KU, and Michael Broadway, N. Mich. Un. ("...As the meat-eating-est society in the world, ironically, Americans have only the vaguest of notions of where and how the meat and poultry they consume is produced and processed...") [.pdf file]
• Great Western Cattle Trail, also known as the Dodge City Trail and the Old Texas Trail - was utilized from 1874 for the movement of cattle to markets East
• Kansas Native Prairie
• "Gunsmoke" 50th Anniversary, 2005
• A History of Santa Fe Trail Boy Scout Council and Spanish Peaks Scout Ranch, by Dr. Carl Zacharias [40th Anniversary, 2006]
• National Cemetery: Kansas Veterans Cemetery At Fort Dodge
• Dodge City man shares stories of life growing up in Mexican Village, Fred Rodriguez about growing up in Dodge City's Mexican Village

Graphics

• Old West Photograph Gallery FCHS
• Pioneer marshal Ham B. Bell Memorial on Boot Hill, 1939, Dodge City
• The Cowboy Capital Historic Marker at Dodge City
• Cowboy Statue on Boot Hill Dr. Oscar Simpson, DDS, 1929
• Coronado Cross, near Fort Dodge
• Ford County Court House, c. 1999, G. Laughead Jr.
• Longhorn Statue at Dodge City, Kansas
• Wheat Field, c. 1940 (near Ford), by Florence Betz, KanColl

Maps

• Keith Chadd's Historical Map Site Ford, Edwards, and Kiowa Counties
  1800-1890
• Ford County and Old Kansas Area Maps KanColl
• Interactive Map of Kansas Kansas Community Network
• US Highway 50 through Kansas
• WWW-VL: US History Maps

Old West Kansas

• Old West Kansas, Native tribes to pioneer west, Kansas Heritage Group
• Old West Kansas Cowtowns KS cowboys, cattletowns, pioneers
• Old West Kansas Forts Ft. Leavenworth to Ft. Dodge, KS
• Old West Kansas Gunfighters KS lawmen, outlaws
• Old West Kansas Peoples Immigration to KS
• Old West Kansas Plains and Emigrant Tribes Native Americans (Indians)
• Old West Kansas Railroads
• Old West Kansas Trails

Books and Articles

• AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History from 1400s to 2000s
• The Deadliest Woman in the West, Kansas author Rod Beemer's new book on weather in the Great Plains. The prairies and plains host some of Mother Nature’s most intense meteorological and geological events.
• Dodge City, the Cowboy Capital, by Robert M. Wright (1913), Dodge City Town President/Founder
• Dodge City's Wickedness: The Early Days Of A Town That Now Thrives , New York Times, October 27, 1889 [.pdf file]
• Early Ford County, by Ida Ellen Rath, 1964
• Ford County History; Cutler's History of the State of Kansas (1883) KanColl
• Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions... (1912) Dodge City
• A Tale Illustrating the Vagaries of Kansas Weather,
  by Guy W. Von Shriltz, Cold Water (sic), Kansas,
  from Pioneer History of Kansas, by Adolph Roenigk, 1922, KanColl
• The Rath Trail (KanColl)
• Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas James C. Malin
• 19th Century Kansas Traveling Shows, by P.J. O'Connor

Southwest Kansas Towns

Ashland Cimarron Coldwater Dighton Dodge City Elkhart Garden City Greensburg Hugoton Jetmore Johnson Kinsley

Lakin Larned Leoti Liberal Meade Ness City Scott City Sublette Syracuse Tribune Ulysses

WWW-VL: United States History

• Kansas History Gateway Lynn H. Nelson, Established 1993; first history on the WWW
• 1920s History
• 1930s History
• 1950s History
• 1960s History
• 1980s History
• WWW-VL: American West History: The expansion of America's West; Old West history
• WWW-VL: History: The Coming of the War 1850-1860
• WWW-VL: US History: American Civil War, 1861-1865
• WWW-VL: Bosnia History (for all the Sarajevo Dodge City friends)
• African-American History
• WWW-VL: Internet History: & W3 History of the internet and the worldwideweb
• WWW-VL: History of Science & Technology

(©1993-2010 George Laughead)