![[Photograph: The Mueller-Schmidt House,
Emelia Mueller's wedding day, June 12, 1889. John Mueller and son Henry
on balcony; Emelia on lower step, Karoline Mueller and John Chambliss,
groom, on porch. All rights reserved, Ford County Historical Society,
Dodge City, KS.]](graphics/muellerschmidthouse.jpg) The John Mueller family
on Emelia Mueller's wedding day, June 12,
1889. |
The history of Ford County, Kansas "Home of
Stone" An Old West Cattleman's Mansion "...the finest residence
in the West"- Dodge City, Kansas Times, 1881
(Listed on the National Register of Historic
Places)
The Mueller-Schmidt House kitchen.
![[Photograph: The Mueller-Schmidt House
kitchen. All rights reserved, Ford County Historical Society, Dodge City,
KS.]](http://www.kansashistory.us/fordco/preview/images/kitchen_full.jpg) |
![[photograph: Ham Bell's New Year card, circa 1935]](graphics/hbellnewyear.jpg) Ham Bell's New Year card, circa 1935. FCHS, all rights reserved. |
The history of the Old West -- the buffalo hunters,
cattlemen, cowboys, lawmen and gunfighters, merchants, and pioneer
families -- of the Cowboy Capital, Dodge City, the
Queen of the Cowtowns, and Fort Dodge, the Santa Fe Trail, and
Ford County, Kansas
Territorial Kansas, 30 May 1854 Kansas Day, 29 January
1861 Ford County, Kansas Organization Filed, 1 October
1872 Signed, 5 April 1873 Dodge City Town Company, 15 August
1872 Incorporated, 5 November 1875
![[Photograph: Front
Street, Dodge City, c.1879, looking west from Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe train depot. John Mueller's bootshop is building with black boot in
front, third building from right. All rights reserved,
FCHS.]](http://www.kansashistory.us/fordco/graphics/frontst1879.jpg) Front Street, Dodge City, c. 1879,
looking west from Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train depot. John
Mueller's bootshop, the first in Dodge City, with black boot in front, is
third building from right. Dodge House hotel is
second. |
William B. 'Bat' Masterson, Ford County Sheriff and
Dodge City citizen. All rights reserved, FCHS.
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Ham Bell, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson: Dodge City Lawmen
- Lawmen of Dodge City and Ford County,
KS (New Photos)
- Ham Bell and "The Last Round-Up," Dodge
City Daily Globe, October 11, 1929
- "Ham Bell's Birthday Picnics," "Longest living Old West Frontier Marshall and
Sheriff," , 1853 - 1947.
- H.B. (Ham) Bell, Deputy U.S. Marshal, Pioneer Sheriff, Mayor of Dodge City and Grand Old Man of the Southwest
- Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, by
Stuart N. Lake, 1931
- Wyatt Earp, by John H. Flood, Jr.,
1926; early biography of Earp
- Wyatt Earp Family History
- "Wyatt Earp Back In Town," Dodge City, KS
Times, July 7, 1877
- The True Story of Clay Allison
and Wyatt Earp, by Roger Myers
- Wyatt Earp Deposition, 1878,
Concerning "Skunk Curley", Dodge City
- Dodge City Shootout: The Deaths of Levi
Richardson and Frank Loving, by Roger Myers - Includes Charlie
Bassett, Marshal of Dodge City
- Bat Masterson November 26, 1853 � October 25, 1921; Biography
- "W.B. 'Bat' Masterson Returns to
Dodge," by Robert K. DeArment
Featured history articles:
- "Adobe Walls Fight," from The Rath
Trail (with drawing)
- April 5, 1873:
Ford County, Kansas Is Organized
- Chalk
Beeson and Bob Rath, son of Charles Rath, with Willy's Overland Car,
6-Cylinders, circa 1910, Dodge City, Racing In Kansas
- "The Bull Fight at Dodge," from
Kansas Historical Quarterly
- "Benjamin Cardozo Meets Gunslinger Bat Masterson," from the NY State Bar Assoc. Journal
- Churches in Old Dodge City with
photograph
- Coronado Cross, east of Ft. Dodge,
Kansas
- "Cowboy
Capital," from The Rath Trail, Dodge City 1872
- Dr. Samuel J. Crumbine Dodge City
Doctor; Kansas State Board of Health; with photograph; from KSHS - Don't
Spit On Sidewalk fame
- Dodge City Policeman LeRoy Davis
Sacrifices His Life May 18, 1929
- "The Dodge City Cowboy Band," from
Kansas Historical Quarterly
- Dodge House Hotel, 1873, from
Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife, by E. M. Biddle, 1907 - Only
known description of the inside of the most famous Dodge City Old West
hotel
- Dodge City Trail of Fame
- Grenville M. Dodge April 12, 1831 - January 3, 1916
- Fort Dodge: A Letter, 1867, from Fort
Dodge, Sentry of the Western Plains, by Dr. Leo E. Oliva
- "Fort
Dodge," from Early Ford County, by Ida Ellen Rath
- 4th of July, 1890, Fort Dodge Soldiers
Home, civil war soldiers, by Kenneth W. Felts
- Germans in the Civil War: I goes to fight
mit Sigel, by Dr. William Keel
- Hinkle-Heinz House (1881), Dodge
City
- George M. Hoover, Dodge City's First
Merchant
- Kansas Heritage Center, Dodge City,
Records Life and Times of Kansas
- John Mueller, Dodge City Boot Maker and
Cattleman
- A Nostalgic Tour of Downtown Dodge City,
1930s-40s, by Judge Gene B. Penland
- Old West Web Sites from around the
world
- Prairie Fires on the Santa Fe Trail
- The Preacher's Kid, by Dr. C.
Robert Haywood
- Windthorst Church: Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish,
Windthorst, KS
- Frederick C. Zimmermann, Dodge City
Gunsmith, by George Laughead
I think it was the distinguishing trait of Wyatt Earp,
the leader of the Earp brothers, that more than any man I have ever known,
he was devoid of physical fear. He feared the opinion of no one but
himself and his self respect was his creed. W. B. 'Bat' Masterson,
Tombstone Prospector, August 16, 1910
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