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Head’em Up, Move’em Out!

by | Jul 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

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The Santa Fe Railroad, in 1873, ceased construction of its main transcontinental line at Dodge City, Kansas, for three years due to a national financial crisis. As a result, Dodge City, the only available shipping point for southern cattle, became the largest cattle shipping and delivering point in the world. In 1875, trail drivers returned to Texas from a Kansas drive and told of a new town, at that time the end of the Santa Fe Railroad, called Dodge City. They described this place as th


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