“Our Land Marks Gone,”. . . the headline blared in the Globe Live Stock Journal on Tuesday, December 1, 1885. “THE FIRE FIEND WIPES OUT THE BUSINESS HEART OF OUR TOWN.” For residents of Dodge City, Kansas, the news seemed all too familiar. The conflagration of November 27 was the second major fire to strike the business district in the Queen of Cowtowns (the first in January), and there was more smoke on the horizon. Less than a week after the Journal’s coverage of the second fire
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