A Much Needed Rest

We are having a down day in Dodge City, a place famous for its notorious lawlessness in the 1870s. Having just visited the Boot Hill Museum I learned a few interesting facts about this place. For instance, Bat Masterson, who had a TV show fashioned after his career, was only sheriff here for one year, then lost an election for a second term. He ended up as a sports writer in New York. No one knows how he got the name "Bat" but the museum thinks it may have had something to with him hitting bad guys over the head with a club. Big Nose Kate really didn't have a big nose, but was nosey. Marshall Dillon is fiction. The mayhem more or less ended when the cattle drives of Texas Longhorns stopped in the 1880s and the cowboys stopped coming into town to spend their earnings. And one last bit of trivia, Dodge City is the windiest city in the U.S., and right now as I write this it is blowing hard outside. Fortunately, the sun is out and the wind is now to our backs again. Tomorrow's forecast is for 91 degrees, so we go from freezing to roasting.

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J.M. Essington death shows us that you should never bad mouth the cook.

What Dodge City must have looked like in the 1870s