Frank Loving vs. Levi Richardson April 5, 1879. Frank Loving and Levi Richardson go at it in the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City. The cause? A...
Gunfight in the Long Branch
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Dodge City
Rawhide!
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...
Frontier Cuisine
Western towns liked to show the Easterners that they were as up to date as Kansas City, New York, or Boston. For example, prosperous towns like...
A Pastor for Dodge
Ormond Wright takes on the Wickedest Little City. September 24, 1850. Ormond W. Wright is born in New Hampshire. When he moves west in his early...
Bat Masterson
The deadly and dangerous life of the man who invented Wyatt Earp. Thanks to a 1960s television show starring Gene Barry, Bat Masterson was called a...
Get Out of Dodge!
Since Dodge City was founded 150 years ago, the Kansas cowtown is still the reigning queen of the West. “Queen of the Cowtowns” was the...
Kansas’s Santa Fe Trail
Traversing the Sunflower State from Leavenworth to Dodge City Timing, as they say, is everything and that certainly proved true for Missouri trader...
Trailing Them North
Follow the Western Cattle Trail from Bandera, Texas, to Miles City, Montana. All Images by Johnny D. Boggs Unless Otherwise Indicated Blame...
Ending a Feud
Mather vs. Nixon came to a sudden end. Dodge City stalwarts Tom Nixon (photo) and “Mysterious” Dave Mather had a beef with one another. It started...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2022
Where History Happens Vigilant stewards keep the Old West alive in these Top Ten Towns. Since the Manifest Destiny doctrine was expressed in the...
The Dodge City Gang
A gang could mean a gang of outlaws or a group of men who ran together such as gamblers. Some people looked upon gamblers as unsavory characters and...
More Favorite Smoke Wagons
Reading the pulp westerns one would conclude that the Colt revolver was the only pistol used in the Old West. Remington built a fine six-shooter and...