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 . ezvous for thebroad and immense uninhabited plains, by narrating thewildest and wickedest phases of Dodge City; but wehave to commend them for complimenting Dodge on itsorderly character. The Dispatch speaks very highlyof Dodge as a commercial point, and his letter bears manycomplimentary features. We extract the following: My experience in Dodge was a surprise all found nothing as I pictured it in my mind. I had ex-pected, from the
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 . ezvous for thebroad and immense uninhabited plains, by narrating thewildest and wickedest phases of Dodge City; but wehave to commend them for complimenting Dodge on itsorderly character. The Dispatch speaks very highlyof Dodge as a commercial point, and his letter bears manycomplimentary features. We extract the following: My experience in Dodge was a surprise all found nothing as I pictured it in my mind. I had ex-pected, from the descriptions I had read of it, to findit a perfect bedlam, a sort of Hogathian Gin Alley, whererum ran down the street gutters and loud profanity andvile stenches contended for the mastery of the atmos-phere. On the contrary, I was happily surprised to findthe place in the daytime as quiet and orderly as a countryvillage in Indiana, and at night the traffic in the waresof the fickle Goddess and human souls was conductedwith a system so orderly and quiet as to actually be pain-ful to behold. It is a most difficult task, I confess, to write—144—. up Dodge City in a manner to do impartial fairness toevery interest; the place has many redeeming points, afew of which I have already mentioned. It is not nearlyso awful a place as reports make it. It is not true that thestranger in the place runs a risk of being shot down incold blood, for no offense whatever. In the year 1878, the Topeka Times says, in a cer-tain issue: During the year of 1873 we roughed it in the first stopping place was the famous Dodge City,at the time a perfect paradise for gamblers, cut-throats,and girls. On our first visit the buildings in the townwere not buildings, with one or two exceptions, but tentsand dugouts. Everyone in town, nearly, sold whisky orkept a restaurant, perhaps both. The Atchison, Topeka& Santa Fe Railroad was just then working its way upthe low-banked Arkansas, and Dodge was t
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