![[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. |
Dust Bowl History Black Sunday, April 14, 1935, Dodge City
![[photograph: Black Sunday, SW Kansas Dust Bowl, April 14, 1935. All rights reserved, Ford County Historical Society, Dodge City, KS]](http://www.kansashistory.us/fordco/blacksunday35.jpg) Black Sunday, SW Kansas Dust Bowl, April 14, 1935. All rights reserved, Ford County Historical Society, Dodge City, KS |
"Big Nose" Kate Elder, biography of "Doc" Holliday's long-time friend
Dodge City, The Cowboy Capital and the Great Southwest in The Days of The Wild Indian, the Buffalo, the Cowboy, Dance Halls, Gambling Halls, and Bad Men; by Robert M. Wright, Plainsman, Explorer, Scout, Pioneer, Trader and Settler
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. |
![[Photo: William B. Bat Masterson, Ford County
Sheriff and citizen. All rights reserved, FCHS.]](http://www.kansashistory.us/fordco/graphics/masterson.jpg) William B. 'Bat' Masterson, Ford County Sheriff and
Dodge City citizen. All rights reserved, FCHS.
|
Ham Bell, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson: Dodge City Lawmen
- Lawmen of Dodge City and Ford County,
KS (New Photos)
- Hamilton B. Bell, from Connelley's
Kansas and Kansans, 1912
- 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
- "Dodge
City Varieties -- A Summer Interlude of Entertainment, 1878" from
KanColl - Ham Bell introduces Dodge City to the
Can-Can, July 4th, 1878.
- 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
![[Painting: Millions of American Bison - "buffalo" - roamed the plains of the midwest.]](http://www.kansashistory.us/fordco/graphics/rath_millions.jpg)
Featured history articles:
- "Adobe Walls Fight," from The Rath
Trail (with drawing)
- American West,
WWW-VL: History: United States: Expansion of America's West Frontier
- April 5, 1873:
Ford County, Kansas Is Organized
- Map:
Ford County, KS, 1895, LivGenMI
- 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
- Cattle Trade of
the West and Southwest, McCoy's Historic Sketches,
1874, KanColl
- Churches in Old Dodge City with
photograph
- Cooking In
Kansas with pioneer cookbooks, recipes, and cowboy chuckwagon
food
- Coronado Cross, east of Ft. Dodge,
Kansas
- "Cowboy
Capital," from The Rath Trail, Dodge City 1872
- A Cowboy
in Dodge City, by Andy Adams, 1882
- 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
- "Dodge Citians At It Again," Dodge City Times, May 12, 1877
- "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
- Richard Irving Dodge, Colonel, United States Army, Arlington National Cemetery
- 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
- Fred's Flower
Finder Southwest Kansas Wildflowers, by Fred Meyer Jr., Ford County
Historical Society, Dodge City
- Germans in the Civil War: I goes to fight
mit Sigel, by Dr. William Keel
- Great Western Trail 1874-1886: Texas to Dodge City
- "Gunsmoke" 50th Anniversary 1955-2005
- Hinkle-Heinz House (1881), Dodge
City
- George M. Hoover, Dodge City's First
Merchant
- The Jones and Plummer Trail
As It Crossed Meade County, Kansas , by Nancy Ohnick
- Kansas Cowboy Symposium Links
- Kansas Forts, Old West Kansas
- Kansas Heritage Center, Dodge City,
Records Life and Times of Kansas
-
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
- John Mueller, Dodge City Boot Maker and
Cattleman
- Das Müller-Schmidt-Haus (1881) auf
Deutsch(German language version, Mueller-Schmidt House history)
- Native American Bibliography, Books on Indians
- A Nostalgic Tour of Downtown Dodge City,
1930s-40s, by Judge Gene B. Penland
- Old
West Kansas Cowboys, cattle trail towns, gunfighters, lawmen, native
American tribes (Indians), History, Kansas Heritage Group
- Old West Web Sites from around the
world
- "Patrolling the Santa Fe Trail:
Reminiscences of John S. Kirwin ," Kansas Historical Quarterly
- Prairie Fires on the Santa Fe Trail
- The Preacher's Kid, by Dr. C.
Robert Haywood
- Santa
Fe Railroad Depot (ATSF), Dodge City, Kansas State Historical
Society
- Santa Fe
Trail Report, 1910-1911, KanColl
- Heinie F. Schmidt, from Connelley's
Kansas and Kansans, 1918
- Television history: "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" staring Hugh O'Brian, Sept. 6, 1955, the first adult western on television - it beat out "Gunsmoke" by four days
- Windthorst Church: Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish,
Windthorst, KS
- WWW-VL: History: Spanish
History
- WWW-VL: History: USA Civil War
-
Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas James C. Malin
- Robert M. Wright, 1840-1915, biography
- Robert
M. Wright, Dodge City Founder, from Connelley's Kansas and
Kansans, 1918
- Frederick C. Zimmermann, Dodge City
Gunsmith
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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![[Photograph image: Original photograph of the 'Dodge City Peace
Commission' in June, 1883. Front, l-r; Chas. E. Bassett, Wyatt S. Earp,
Frank McLain, and Neil Brown. Back, l-r; W. H. Harris, Luke Short, W. B.
Bat Masterson, and W. F. Petillon. This is the version with Petillon
beside Masterson. All rights reserved. FCHS.]](http://www.kansashistory.us/fordco/graphics/peacecombig.jpg)
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