Since Dodge City was founded 150 years ago, the Kansas cowtown is still the reigning queen of the West.
“Queen of the Cowtowns” was the moniker historian Stanley Vestal bestowed on Dodge City, and the name stuck. The prairie town was certainly the mo

True West June 2022
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- Western Roundup: June 2022
- What History Has Taught Me: Jeffrey J. Mariotte
- Winchester’s 1876 Mountie Carbine
- Making a Good Impression in the West
- A Flood of Fakes
- Ambush!
- Shooting Back
- Texas’s Tangy Thirst Quencher
- The Grand Old Park
- Red Lodge, Montana
- Wild Bill, Bearded Indians and Banks
- The Wildest Town in Indian Territory
- Truth Be Known
- Deadly Gunplay