dodge city ks trip
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only a pointer
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i will say one thing the boot hill casino was really nice i was expecting run down old smelling and smokey but definately the opposite it was really nice and paid my gas lol
M. R. Byrd
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Only A Pointer,
You are not the first to comment on Dodge City. Here is a comment from earlier--
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Besides this generally sensational mode of writing up the town, Dodge City was the theme of many lurid stories and sulphurous jokes which tended, no less than the write-ups, to establish her position, in the public eye, as the "Wickedest Town in America." The following letter is from the "Washington, D. C., Evening Star," January 1st, 1878.
"Dodge City is a wicked little town. Indeed, its character is so clearly and egregiously bad that one might conclude, were the evidence in these later times positive of its possibility, that it was marked for special Providential punishment. Here those nomads in regions remote from the restraints of moral, civil, social, and law enforcing life, the Texas cattle drovers, from the very tendencies of their situation the embodiment of waywardness and wantonness, end the journey with their herds, and here they loiter and dissipate, sometimes for months, and share the boughten dalliances of fallen women. Truly, the more demonstrative portion of humanity at Dodge City gives now no hopeful sign of moral improvement, no bright prospect of human exaltation; but with Dodge City itself, it will not always be as now. The hamlet of today, like Wichita and Newton farther east in the state, will antagonize with a nobler trait, at some future day, its present outlandish condition. The denizen of little Dodge City declares, with a great deal of confidence, that
the region around about the place is good for nothing for agricultural purposes. He says the seasons are too dry, that the country is good for nothing but for grazing, and that all they raise around Dodge is cattle and hell. The desire of his heart is the father of the statement. He is content with just what it is, and he wants that to remain."
From, "Dodge City, Cowboy Capital", by Robert M. Wright
You are not the first to comment on Dodge City. Here is a comment from earlier--
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Besides this generally sensational mode of writing up the town, Dodge City was the theme of many lurid stories and sulphurous jokes which tended, no less than the write-ups, to establish her position, in the public eye, as the "Wickedest Town in America." The following letter is from the "Washington, D. C., Evening Star," January 1st, 1878.
"Dodge City is a wicked little town. Indeed, its character is so clearly and egregiously bad that one might conclude, were the evidence in these later times positive of its possibility, that it was marked for special Providential punishment. Here those nomads in regions remote from the restraints of moral, civil, social, and law enforcing life, the Texas cattle drovers, from the very tendencies of their situation the embodiment of waywardness and wantonness, end the journey with their herds, and here they loiter and dissipate, sometimes for months, and share the boughten dalliances of fallen women. Truly, the more demonstrative portion of humanity at Dodge City gives now no hopeful sign of moral improvement, no bright prospect of human exaltation; but with Dodge City itself, it will not always be as now. The hamlet of today, like Wichita and Newton farther east in the state, will antagonize with a nobler trait, at some future day, its present outlandish condition. The denizen of little Dodge City declares, with a great deal of confidence, that
the region around about the place is good for nothing for agricultural purposes. He says the seasons are too dry, that the country is good for nothing but for grazing, and that all they raise around Dodge is cattle and hell. The desire of his heart is the father of the statement. He is content with just what it is, and he wants that to remain."
From, "Dodge City, Cowboy Capital", by Robert M. Wright
Toad
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I haven't seen any fallen women's dalliances for sale on my annual trips. I hope that isn't one of the stops on the Byrd tour. :laugh: Seriously though, it was a very interesting read. Thanks for posting that! :thumbsup: With the new casino, maybe Dodge City has come full circle in 134 years.
We stayed in a $35.00/night motel for several years until we got thrown out one year for having the dogs in the room.
No matter where we stay in Dodge, or any other hunting trip, EVERYTHING comes into the hotel room with us. Never had a bit of trouble. I think it might be because we are parked right outside the door of our motel room and any idiot would know that we have guns. Kinda tends to keep people honest, I think.
We stayed in a $35.00/night motel for several years until we got thrown out one year for having the dogs in the room.
No matter where we stay in Dodge, or any other hunting trip, EVERYTHING comes into the hotel room with us. Never had a bit of trouble. I think it might be because we are parked right outside the door of our motel room and any idiot would know that we have guns. Kinda tends to keep people honest, I think.
M. R. Byrd
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A truck driver, having spent the night at the Flying J waiting for his delivery at my shop the next morning told me, "I didn't sleep good last night in the sleeper, at 2 A.M., a lot lizard was pounding on my door, so I had to get up and let her out."
BritChaser
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:10sign:, Mr. Byrd.
I've seen a few fallen women's dalliance's for sale in Dodge. One opening weekend several years ago there were two bikini-clad young women walking down the hall of the Holiday Inn Express. At the time I noted the oddness of thier dress and presence in the hotel. Over the years I've seen 10 dogs to every woman in that hotel on that weekend, and even then never in swimwear.
The next day while we were hunting my brother-in-law asks me if I noticed the hookers in the hotel last night. Now it makes sense....
The next day while we were hunting my brother-in-law asks me if I noticed the hookers in the hotel last night. Now it makes sense....
copheasanthunter
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Matto,
okay you saw them, how much did it cost you just kidding:cheers:
okay you saw them, how much did it cost you
just kidding:cheers:copheasanthunter
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oh I didn't clarify what I wrote, what did the room cost, the GCB was looking for a place to stay should he go there to hunt.
only a pointer
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now to be honest if i saw the hooks dodge would have been the best city in kansas and the motels would have been top notch !! I know where i would be planning opening weekend :cheers:
You should have called and I would have hosted you in my double wide for less than a hundred a night.
Unfortunately, Dodge City is a really dirty town and certainly not the place I grew up in. I spend as little time in town as possible.
Now not all houses are trashy in Dodge---
That is your house Maynard
:coolpics::10sign: Wow!!I am truly impressed....I will be your huckleberry anytime.
Greg
You should have called and I would have hosted you in my double wide for less than a hundred a night.
Unfortunately, Dodge City is a really dirty town and certainly not the place I grew up in. I spend as little time in town as possible.
Now not all houses are trashy in Dodge---
That is your house Maynard
:coolpics::10sign: Wow!!I am truly impressed....I will be your huckleberry anytime.
Greg
M. R. Byrd
Well-known member
That is your house Maynard
I am truly impressed....I will be your huckleberry anytime.
Greg
Now, if that was my house, I would likely own a lot of toys and stuff, shoot I might even be able to buy this forum and call it my own.
BTW, have you seen this house when in Dodge?
Now, if that was my house, I would likely own a lot of toys and stuff, shoot I might even be able to buy this forum and call it my own.
BTW, have you seen this house when in Dodge?
Maynard, Ive taken the summer off from the board, but you have me curious. I used to live in Holcomb (w of Garden) and traveled for my Adjuster job and was in Dodge all the time. What part of town is the house in? Theres a few big ones I remember on the east edge on 50 and some on the NE end a a couple on the 50 bypass by the Casino -- is this one over by the Casino?
Has to be a guy that owns a feedlot or a politician.
M. R. Byrd
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It is in Summerlon, which is an addition beginning at the north end of the Dodge City Country Club(the east nine holes). The club used to be just a nine hole course and thirty plus years ago the club was expanded to eighteen holes by crossing Fairway Drive to the east. Along the east side of the addition to the course is K-Country Estates(Comanche on the south and Avenue P on the east) and now to the north is Summerlon(from north end of course, to Avenue P on the east, to Highway 50 on the north).
Neither occupation is correct. Home is on the standard tour package offered by M R Byrd & Associates.
I do try to expand my knowledge of Dodge as I can. I so wanted to be at a presentation about cemeteries in Dodge last night at the library, but had a schedule conflict. Part of the talk was about those buried at Boot Hill and where the bodies were moved.
From the DCGlobe--
Dodge City history told from a different perspectiveDodge City draws part of it's world-wide recognition from a cemetery.
Boot Hill, as the plot on the edge of the new town came to be called, served as a burial ground for only eight years. As many as 15 men, mostly strangers, were buried there during the town's first winter in 1872-73. 17 0 Email Share Print
By Don Steele
Oct. 16, 2012 6 a.m.
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DODGE CITY -- Dodge City draws part of it's world-wide recognition from a cemetery.
Boot Hill, as the plot on the edge of the new town came to be called, served as a burial ground for only eight years. As many as 15 men, mostly strangers, were buried there during the town's first winter in 1872-73.
As the town settled down and became more civilized, the graves were moved from Boot Hill to the new Prairie Grove Cemetery north of town.
Along with the cemetery at Fort Dodge and the city's current resting place, Maple Grove Cemetery, the four cemeteries tell the story of life and death in a frontier town.
Nancy Trauer, local historian, will present a program tonight on the history of the four cemeteries and the people who were buried there.
"Although the more notable people who lived in Dodge City for a while - the Mastersons, the Earps - are not buried here, the names on those tombstones are the men and women who founded the town and guided its development," Trauer said in a recent phone interview.
Trauer's presentation will cover all four cemeteries, focusing on the biographies of some of the people buried there. Photos of the people and their tombstones will accompany the talk.
The first person to be buried at Prairie Grove Cemetery was Tom Gallagher, a cowboy killed by lightning in 1878.
The first person buried at Maple Grove Cemetery was Mrs. Mary Robertson in June of 1887.
Trauer has drawn information for the program from "Soul in the Stone," by John Gary Brown.
Bown's book, published by the University Press of Kansas, celebrates master stone sculptors as well as grassroots and ethnic folk artists who created the early tombstones.
Brown is a professional photographer in Lawrence and has photographed cemeteries all over the world. His photographs have appeared in Smithsonian, Americana and Architectural Digest.
Trauer's program was originally developed as a walking tour and was offered to bus tours during their stay in Dodge City. Trauer was director of the Convention and Visitors Bureau at the time.
Among the Dodge City citizens making an appearance in Trauer's program are Print Olive, one of the early cattlemen who organized the longhorn drives up from Texas; James 'Dog' Kelley; Mike Sutton; Chalkley Beeson and the Zimmermann family.
As for those unfortunate souls originally buried on Boot Hill, Trauer reports that there are accounts of the bodies being moved to Prairie Grove Cemetery. The Feb. 4, 1879 edition of The Ford County Globe reported in that both the bodies and the makeshift coffins they were buried in were both in extremely good condition. The writer made the results seem downright soothing: "They are now all resting side by side, like one happy family. The enchanting click of the festive revolver they no longer hear."
There is, however, no record of the Boot Hill bodies being moved to a new resting place in Maple Grove Cemetery when the city closed Prairie Grove.
The study of history sometimes yields more questions than answers.
IF YOU GO
What: History of Dodge City Cemeteries
Where: Dodge City Public Library
When: 7 p.m. tonight
Program is free and open to the public.
Neither occupation is correct. Home is on the standard tour package offered by M R Byrd & Associates.
I do try to expand my knowledge of Dodge as I can. I so wanted to be at a presentation about cemeteries in Dodge last night at the library, but had a schedule conflict. Part of the talk was about those buried at Boot Hill and where the bodies were moved.
From the DCGlobe--
Dodge City history told from a different perspectiveDodge City draws part of it's world-wide recognition from a cemetery.
Boot Hill, as the plot on the edge of the new town came to be called, served as a burial ground for only eight years. As many as 15 men, mostly strangers, were buried there during the town's first winter in 1872-73. 17 0 Email Share Print
By Don Steele
Oct. 16, 2012 6 a.m.
Zoom
DODGE CITY -- Dodge City draws part of it's world-wide recognition from a cemetery.
Boot Hill, as the plot on the edge of the new town came to be called, served as a burial ground for only eight years. As many as 15 men, mostly strangers, were buried there during the town's first winter in 1872-73.
As the town settled down and became more civilized, the graves were moved from Boot Hill to the new Prairie Grove Cemetery north of town.
Along with the cemetery at Fort Dodge and the city's current resting place, Maple Grove Cemetery, the four cemeteries tell the story of life and death in a frontier town.
Nancy Trauer, local historian, will present a program tonight on the history of the four cemeteries and the people who were buried there.
"Although the more notable people who lived in Dodge City for a while - the Mastersons, the Earps - are not buried here, the names on those tombstones are the men and women who founded the town and guided its development," Trauer said in a recent phone interview.
Trauer's presentation will cover all four cemeteries, focusing on the biographies of some of the people buried there. Photos of the people and their tombstones will accompany the talk.
The first person to be buried at Prairie Grove Cemetery was Tom Gallagher, a cowboy killed by lightning in 1878.
The first person buried at Maple Grove Cemetery was Mrs. Mary Robertson in June of 1887.
Trauer has drawn information for the program from "Soul in the Stone," by John Gary Brown.
Bown's book, published by the University Press of Kansas, celebrates master stone sculptors as well as grassroots and ethnic folk artists who created the early tombstones.
Brown is a professional photographer in Lawrence and has photographed cemeteries all over the world. His photographs have appeared in Smithsonian, Americana and Architectural Digest.
Trauer's program was originally developed as a walking tour and was offered to bus tours during their stay in Dodge City. Trauer was director of the Convention and Visitors Bureau at the time.
Among the Dodge City citizens making an appearance in Trauer's program are Print Olive, one of the early cattlemen who organized the longhorn drives up from Texas; James 'Dog' Kelley; Mike Sutton; Chalkley Beeson and the Zimmermann family.
As for those unfortunate souls originally buried on Boot Hill, Trauer reports that there are accounts of the bodies being moved to Prairie Grove Cemetery. The Feb. 4, 1879 edition of The Ford County Globe reported in that both the bodies and the makeshift coffins they were buried in were both in extremely good condition. The writer made the results seem downright soothing: "They are now all resting side by side, like one happy family. The enchanting click of the festive revolver they no longer hear."
There is, however, no record of the Boot Hill bodies being moved to a new resting place in Maple Grove Cemetery when the city closed Prairie Grove.
The study of history sometimes yields more questions than answers.
IF YOU GO
What: History of Dodge City Cemeteries
Where: Dodge City Public Library
When: 7 p.m. tonight
Program is free and open to the public.