Cement Cowboy Nearly Dies

On the Ashes of My Campfire, This City is Built.” That inscription has graced a 2,000-pound, nearly eight-foot-tall cement statue of a cowboy for 86 years on Boot Hill in Dodge City, Kansas. Some old-timers knew the man covered in cement to make the mold for this statue—cowboy Joe Sughrue, who later became the town’s chief of police. Unfortunately, what most see these days is a statue in terrible shape. It looks like pieces of Sughrue’s face are falling off and the brick base is crumb