Dodge City
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- Names
Dodge City
Buffalo City
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Arkansas River in SW Kansas; was trading post for buffalo hunters, later a supply base & cattle transit point on the Santa Fe Trail; became infamous for lawlessness & noted for sheriffs Bat Masterson & Wyatt Earp.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994);
- Born
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