Dodge City, Kansas

We left Taos yesterday morning and spent the night in La Junta, Colorado.  Today we drove to Dodge City, Kansas.  This is our first trip to Kansas.  Very flat, windy, lots of cattle in feedlots and grain storage elevators.  I haven't seen Dorothy yet!  We are staying at Gunsmoke Trav-L-Park and we are parked on DOC'S BLVD.  We went into Dodge City to the Boot Hill Museum.  The Museum sits on the original site of the Boot Hill Cemetery.  The complex covers a 2 city block area.  They have an extensive collection of artifacts, lots of photos, a General Store and the Long Branch Saloon.  It was an interesting museum.  

 The Great Western Hotel houses gift shop, admissions counter and theater

 The Fort Dodge Jail dates back to 1865

 The Boot Hill Cemetery was closed in 1879.  It was never an 

official buriel ground, but used primarily for the bodies of buffalo

hunters, drifters, and others who had no family in area.  No one

famous was ever buried here.

 An Ancestor????

 The Long Branch Saloon was made famous by the television series "Gunsmoke"

 Inside the Long Branch Saloon

 The Occident Saloon is now a County Style Diner

Painting of "Doc" Holliday, "Bat"Masterson and Wyatt Earp

 Store Fronts

 The First Union Church

 More Store Fronts