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Dodge & Burn

Dodge & Burn

by | Jul 1, 2001 | Travel & Preservation

“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...
Smoking Gun

Smoking Gun

by | Jul 1, 2001 | Inside History

Surprising new evidence has surfaced in the Wyatt Earp claim that he killed Curly Bill. Wells Fargo historian, Robert J. Chandler, accidentally found an entry in the original Cash Books that points to a stunning possibility. The entry seems to indicate that Wells...