The Man Behind the Dodge City War

In the iconic photograph, a group of stone-faced men stare stolidly back at the camera, giving no indication that theirs was a celebratory pose, an image of the “Dodge City Peace Commission” taken to mark the victory of one group of gamblers and hard cases over another. Standing in the rear, the men to either side of him standing much taller, is the diminutive Luke Short. It was for his sake that the so-called “Dodge City War” occurred in the first place, but for some reason, he n