Gettin’ along little dogies up the Western Trail is still a fun road trip today.
By the 1880s, time was catching up with the Western Trail—the cattle-drive highway from Texas to Kansas/Nebraska/Dakotas/Colorado/Wyoming/Montana. Just as time—and angry farmers and stock raisers—had caught up with the Shawnee and Chisholm trails before.
Dodge City was platted in 1872, the same year the Atchison, Topeka & Santa F

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