Shades of Wild West
by Hanny Heim
Title
Shades of Wild West
Artist
Hanny Heim
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Photograph - Art Photography
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Dodge City, Old Western Town and Tourist Attraction
Fort Mann was the first settlement of non-indigenous people in the area that became Dodge City, built by civilians in 1847 to provide protection for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. Fort Mann collapsed in 1848 after an Indian attack. In 1850, the U.S. Army arrived to provide protection in the region and constructed Fort Atkinson on the old Fort Mann site, which in 1865 after the American Civil War was replaced by the larger Fort Dodge.
The town of Dodge City can trace its origins to 1871 when rancher Henry J. Sitler built a sod house west of Fort Dodge to oversee his cattle operations in the region. With the construction of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, more settlers moved into this area, and Sitler's house quickly became a stopping point for travelers and the city of Dodge City was founded, named after Grenville M. Dodge, an officer of the Union Army during the Civil War, a member of the US Congress, businessman, sponsor of the Transcontinental railroad and one of the founders of General Mills Corporation. With the arrival of the railroad, Dodge City soon became involved in the cattle trade. From 1872 Dodge City was known as cattle town with a loading station for herds of cattle from Texas, next to Abilene, Newton, Ellsworth and Wichita.
Since several famous men and gunslingers such as the brothers James, Morgan, Virgil and Wyatt Earp as well as Doc Holliday, Texas Jack Vermillion and John Joshua Webb had lived here, the city soon reached great popularity.
Worldwide recognition came to the city in the 20th century through many Westerns as a novel or film, such as the series Smoking Colts around the fictional U.S. Marshal Dillon.
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