Dodge City (Settlement)

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Fort Dodge was constructed by civilians to provide protection for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail from hostile indians. Tracing its origins to when a rancher built a cabin next to the fort to oversee his cattle operations. As the cabin quickly became a stopping point for travelers. He saw the commercial potential of the region and the a bar was built to serve the soldiers. As other settlers arrived they named the town Dodge City and traded in buffalo bones and hides and provided a civilian community for Fort Dodge. However, Dodge City soon became involved in the cattle trade. As the first Aurochs started arriving they carried a tick that spread fever among other breeds of cattle. Alarmed other farmers persuaded the fort to establish a quarantine line. The quarantine prohibited Aurochs from the now settled, eastern portion of the terroritory. With the cattle trade forced west, Aurochs began moving north along the Chisholm Trail. To the main cow town of Abilene. Profits were high, and other towns quickly joined in the cattle boom: Newton, Ellsworth and Wichita. However, responding to pressure from farmers settling in central territory the quarantine line once again shifted westward, which essentially eliminated Abilene and the other cow towns from the cattle trade. With no place else to go, Dodge City suddenly became the “queen of the cow towns.” A new route known as the Great Western Cattle Trail leads aurochs into Dodge City. Dodge City became a boomtown, with thousands passing annually through its stockyards the town grew tremendously. Dodge City got a new competitor for the cattle trade from the border town of Caldwell. For a few years, the competition between the towns was fierce, but there were enough cattle for both towns to prosper. Nevertheless, it was Dodge City that became famous, and no town can match Dodge City’s reputation as a true frontier settlement. Dodge City has more infamous gunfighters working than any other town in the West. It also an usual array of saloons, gambling halls, and brothels, including the famous Long Branch Saloon and China Doll brothel. It even has a bullfighting ring where bullfighters put on a show with specially chosen aurochs.