James H. Kelley was a force in Dodge City. James H. “Dog” Kelley was a key player in Dodge City, Kansas in the 1870s. The English-native came to...
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Dodge City
Who Was the Dodge City Gang?
The Dodge City “Gang" wasn’t what we think of an outlaw gang like the James Younger Gang. They were euphemistically known as "Luke Short and his...
The Opening and Closing of the Santa Fe Trail 1821-1880, PART 1
The Mexican Revolution ended in 1821 and brought about many changes in foreign policy. Up to then Spain didn’t allow her colonies to trade with the...
Friends Turned Foes A woman came between Loving and Richardson.
Frank Loving and Levi Richardson were friends, often gambling together in Dodge City’s Long Branch Saloon in 1879. But then a woman came...
Trigger-Happy Billy Brooks brought the law and then some to Dodge.
Billy Brooks was a shootist and enforcer in Kansas in the 1870s. In early 1873, businessmen in Dodge City hired him as an unofficial...
Call In The Army The military brought law and order to Dodge.
Dodge City, Kansas was pretty much lawless in 1873. The vigilance committee had gone rogue. On June 3, two members of the group killed the...
Wyatt’s Stallion, the Apache Kid and the Code of the West
What became of Wyatt Earp’s horse, Dick Naylor? How did the term “Code of the West” originate? Did a youngster named Al Smith name Hole in the Wall?
Gamblers And Guns Frank Loving and John Allen were determined to shoot it out.
Gamblers “Cockeyed” Frank Loving and John Allen had a history. They’d both been in Dodge City in the late 1870s; they were in Trinidad, Colorado in...