City of Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas

GOP votes against vets Jerry Moran, US Senate, Kansas, begs Roger Marshall to support vets

Dodge City -- Images of America, photographs from the Ford County Historical Society, Dodge City, KS

Dodge City, the Cowboy Capital, by Robert M. Wright (1913), Dodge City Town President/Founder; www.kansashistory.us/fordco/wright/

Ford County Historical Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the history of Dodge City, Ford County and the American West

Dennis Hopper, Dodge City, KS; RIP, May 17, 1936 - May 29, 2010

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

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

Dodge City History

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

Art and Theater

Events and Festivals

Dodge City Tourism & Attractions

General

Historical House Museum

History Groups

History Web Directories

Old West Kansas

Books and Articles

Southwest Kansas Towns

WWW-VL: United States History

• • 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, Beats In Kansas
    • Dennis Hopper, Dodge City native; photograph by Larry Keenan [with artist Bruce Conner, Kansas native]

• 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

• Western Swing & Other Things, with Allen Bailey, Dodge City Marshal, HPPR Public Radio
• 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 and Doc Holliday statues
• Dodge City & Ford County Tourist Attractions, Dodge City Conventions & Visitor Bureau
• Faro: Favorite Gambling Game of the Frontier, Wild West Magagzine
• "Fort Dodge," from Early Ford County, by Ida Ellen Rath
• 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.
• Windthorst Church: Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Windthorst

• Dodge City Tourism Coalition, an alliance of non-profit Western Heritage venues
• 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]

• Mueller-Schmidt House (1881) Museum, Dodge City. QT Virtual Panorama Tour
• Das Müller-Schmidt-Haus (1881) auf Deutsch, Dodge City

• Kansas History Resources
  KS Genealogy, Libraries, Museums
• Ford County Historical Society, Dodge City at Kansas State Library BlueSkyways
• Kansas Museums Association
  • KMA Museum Resource Links
• Mountain-Plains Museums Association 10-state museum network

• 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 Timeline

• KHC Kansas Chautauqua

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

• 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
• Kansas Museums
• Mountain-Plains Museums Association
  • MPMA Museums Facebook Fan Page
• WWW-VL: History United States History Museums
• WWW-VL: USA Historic Sites
• WWW-VL: US Historic Preservation

• Dodge City Daily Globe
• High Plains Journal, Dodge City
• Hutchinson News

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

• Dodge City Government
• 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
• Dodge City & Ford County Tax Exempt and Non-Profit Organizations

• Topeka, Kansas state capital
• Total USDA Subsidies, 1st district of Kansas (Rep. Jerry Moran)
• Kansas History Resources Kansas Government
• Evolution In Kansas Intelligent Design, Creationism, Evolution Theory
• WWW-VL: US History Federal Sources
• Roger Marshall, Koch Brothers

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

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

• 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]

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

• 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
• 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
• 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, 2008

• 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

• Ford County and Old Kansas Area Maps KanColl
• Interactive Map of Kansas Kansas Community Network
• WWW-VL: US History Maps

• 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

• 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 Natureâ��s most intense meteorological and geological events.
• Dodge City, the Cowboy Capital, by Robert M. Wright (1913), Dodge City Town President/Founder
• Early Ford County, by Ida Ellen Rath, 1964
• Ford County History; Cutler\'s History of the State of Kansas (1883) KanColl
• 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

• Kansas History Gateway Lynn H. Nelson, Established 1993; first history on the WWW
  • 1920s 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

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