Few places inspired newspaper editors to wax wroth as Dodge City, once described as a “perfect paradise for gamblers, cut-throats, and girls.” The little town on the Kansas prairie was a rowdy, high-spirited mix of cowboys and rustlers, railroaders and sodbusters, gunslingers and saloon girls. It earned many endearing nicknames over the years—the “Sodom of the West,” “Deadwood of Kansas” and—our favorite —the “Beautiful, Bibulous Babylon of the Frontier.” HISTORIC EVEN
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