DODGE CITY, Kansas: Exploring The Old West's Wickedest Town
2024 ж. 8 Мам.
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We visit the historic, old West town of Dodge City, Kansas. In the late 1800's the city attracted gunfighters, gamblers and brothel owners, earning its nickname "The Wickedest Town In The Old West" and of course the famous phrase, "Get The Heck Out Of Dodge".
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My husband is deceased now . He had planned on going to Dodge City when he retired. He loved the old western shows. I love what you guys are doing. I don't travel anymore so this is how I travel through watching your travels.
GOOD OLE DODGE CITY! Dodge City is Very Special to me... I followed a man I thought I was madly in love with to Dodge City when I was 19 years old. We drove all night from Nebraska and ended up in a boarding room type of place with a shared bathroom and it was an huge old, but beautiful home. It was very clean and lovely. The man I was with swept me away from my folks and got me far enough away from everything I ever knew... Then tried to keep me locked up all day in the room while he worked. I would sit in the big window seat and watch all the people go by. The woman who owned the house we were staying in saw me in that window everyday and opened my room door he had locked. She said what is going on here? I was just a kid I was afraid. That lady saved me and helped me call my mama. Miss Irene I will never forget her... I thankfully left that mean man and went home to my family. I lived in Dodge City for 19 days. It's such a beautiful place. And Garden City is about 50 or so miles away. It was so wonderful to see this place again. ❤ A piece of my heart is in Dodge City. I learned a valuable life lesson there. Kinda funny, I never think about the guy I thought I loved, however I often think about Dodge City and Miss Irene 🤔 ♡ I will go back one day. 😀
What a story! Thank you. :)
I grew up in Garden City and have been to Dodge many times.
The last time I visited Dodge City was in August 1962 with my parents and my younger sister. I was only 14 at the time. Things have really changed in 60 years!!! I was really impressed back then, especially with "Boot Hill," and always wanted to go back---this time with the wife!!! Unfortunately, both my parents and my sister have passed on. I also remember seeing the Santa Fe "El Capitan" passenger train pull into the old train station. Amtrak's Southwest Chief now serves the city, but the original Santa Fe glory of the train is lost. I also grew up watching Gunsmoke on our black and white television. Sweet memories from my past!!!
Sorry to hear about your relatives
I went to Dodge late August 1962 from Colorado Springs. The Long Branch saloon was quite narrow. There was a road outside, not the grass, where I got on the stagecoach for a ride around town. I well remember the Santa Fe trains. At the bottom of the road where we lived was the Rock Island RR that shared the station with the Denver & Rio Grande. The engineer let me climb aboard one day and gave me a tour of the loco. Both my parents were born the same year Wyatt Earp died; 1929. A friend in high school-- his great uncle was Ben Kilpatrick aka, the Tall Texan, who rode with Butch Cassidy and Sundance.
Sorry about those close to you passing on, hope you can look back fondly. Lost my dad unexpectedly this year and he loved old movies especially westerns
I was born n raised in Dodge City Kansas and now I live in Charles City, Iowa. Nice to see my home state again 💕
Great job on the video,I lived there for 67 years and you know more about the town than ninety percent of the folks that there now.I grew up in the house @10.40 on the video and remember stacking all of those railroad ties with my brother for our parents fifty years ago.My brother lived in the big blue house across the street back then.They are all gone now so thanks for the memories it all still looks the same.I hope to get back there soon.
Awesome, Rod! Great comment. :)
Hi Rod!
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip I lived here in 1983 for a month with my brother in-law as a teenager. My brother in-law used to worked for the meat processing company. Is that company still exist?
Awesome comment.
There is so much to see at Dodge City Kansas just like Deadwood South Dakota
😂😂 I’m just here because it’s midnight and I’m searching random cities/ towns in America on Google maps, and then coming to KZhead to see if anyone has done a video walking through the area I’ve seen on google maps 😂 thanks for showing me Dodge City in Kansas! 👍 (best wishes from England btw)
My wife is from Dodge City. We live in Kansas City but are frequent visitors because she still has family (including her mom, brother and numerous cousins etc...) still living there. We usually stay on the West side of town, at the Casino Hotel. The overriding thing I remember about the town is the SMELL. There are TWO slaughterhouses to the south east on the outskirts of the town, so the smell of rendering can be strong everywhere in town especially on weekdays.
Yelp! That's Dodge City for ya!!
Is this where the term "Get out of Dodge" comes from?
Actually national beef Is in the city limits
is it easy to get seasonal work at that slaughterhouse?
@@virtualworldconstruction6722 They’re usually hiring 24 seven
I live in Dodge City! I wish I would have seen this sooner or knew that you were here. I am on a paranormal team and I could have given you a tour of The Santa Fe Depot and other places. I hope that you enjoyed your time here.
do you have any paranormal videos you uploaded on youtube?
Considering that no clear evidence of ghosts or ghostly shenanigans have EVER been recorded and verified, he would be fine. All the TV shows of ghost chasers and investigators became such a joke with the screaming, running like they say something....and the obvious staging of some "ghost talk" or tossing a board by one of the guys off camera I came to the obvious conclusion that the whole idea was just ridiculous. All the tech, all the people looking and investigating for so many years and STILL no evidence. "I felt a cold spot" or "it felt like someone was watching"....too funny.
Wife was feisty today! Great video. Thank you.
I live downtown, and have lived in Dodge all my life. Thankful to see this video and see what more I have not seen from the town. Hope you had a great stay.
We had a great time there. I was really excited to visit - I have wanted to since I was a kid.
Omg this is on my bucket list as well as the other small towns in Kansas . Thanks so much for sharing!
You didnt go far enough for the feed lot overlook. It's past the airport off the highway. The trail tracks are on the walkway, covered by special grates that protect them from the weather.
And National Beef Packing!!!!
My Grandpa William Earl Hemmingway was the manager of the regional office of Prudential Insurance. In the 1960s through the early 1980s their office was on one of the upper floors of the Union National Bank of Dodge City.
Thanks for reviewing dodge!! I’m born and raised here! Still live here to this day! Thanks for giving our wicked little city a pretty awesome video💕
I have always been a big fan of old Wild West stories, so visiting Dodge City was a must for me. The city did not disappoint!
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip My thanks as well ! I'm hoping we can get down there from Canada by car in the next few years on our way to Tombstone as well as seeing the donkeys roaming the streets of Oatman, Arizona !!
@@dankelly5150 Cool! If you’re wanting to visit old West towns, in addition to Tombstone and Dodge City you might want to check out Deadwood, South Dakota. It is awesome. They have street gunfights daily and it’s full of amazing history. I did a video if it as well as Tombstone.
Kansas is the only state in the Midwest that I haven't visited.Dodge City looks interesting.I love the history of this city.
The suburban half of Kansas City that is in Kansas is just as large and dense as any large metro in the US. You dont have to drive out to the Great Plains to add KS to your list. There are tourist attractions in that area.
I was born in this town, Dodge City, we moved to Oklahoma, just before my 5th birthday, to another historical town, String Town, where my paternal grandparents lived and where Bonnie and Clyde, stayed for 3 days and partied with my relatives, before they were gunned down. I remember my brother taking me into the Dodge House, once and was in awe of the round, red velvet seaty, they called it, that was in the center of the lobby. I was 10, when I visited last and down town, looks very much the same as I remember it. It’s still amazing to me and Gunsmoke will always be my favorite show.
Thank you for the great comment! :)
I am from Larned.. 60 miles from Dodge. My dad and grandfather bought cattle at the cattle sale in Dodge. Huge part of my life
Thank You Joe and Nicole for the great video of Dodge City.
Those houses that look half in the ground were probably built in stages. The owners would build out a basement, oftentimes with a flat type roof, and would move into the basement while they saved up to finish the next level of the house. Sometimes the fortunes of the owners changed and they were unable to finish it.
Interesting.
Hello from England.! I have been watching your videos with great interest. Over here we only tend to see the cities or celebrity BS I've always wanted to see the real america where regular people live. I'll probably never make it now, but I wanted to visit the US and just tour around staying in motels, see the parts we don't often see.
If you haven't been to Hays KS ,.or Manhattan KS., also Abiline KS. Home of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. You should visit these places as well. There is a lot of history all over the State. I saw your video about your visit to Wichita. I hope you both have enjoyed your visit. It's a big state.
And it's a CRIMINALLY underrated state! Kansas isn't the best state, but there is a lot of history there, from the Oregon Trail, to Lecompton, to the Brown vs. Board museum in Topeka. There's a lot of natural beauty too, lots of pretty sights and the Flint Hills. And it's a state with some of the nicest people in the whole Midwest, a place where people always treated me with respect. People gotta stop sleeping on Kansas.
Been to hays for October fest and Manhattan for fake patty’s both were tons of fun I like Manhattan better.
As per the habit I've developed, I accompanied you both to Dodge City. Nicole, like all women of worth, pushes back and stands her ground. It's also clear you care for her a good deal. Loved the statues of the great men of courage of Dodge City's early years. Did you say Nebraska next? Excellent! Wherever you go, I'm there too.
I love your videos. Please visit Turkey Texas sometime, home of the great Bob Wills !
I am from Kansas City. Did not have the opportunity to see it in full view. This is a great video. I think Dennis Hopper put that statue in his town in memory of the movie "Giant", that he became popular in. What a great era it was, to perform with all of those big movie stars back then.
Thanks for showing my home .have not lived there for over 33 some yrs . Nice video
From what I understand the homes in Dodge city are set low in the ground because of the danger from tornados. Very unique design. :)
That's a good idea.
as a dodge city resident who was an intern for one of the construction companies here, we actually get tornadoes so seldomly that we don't take it into account; actually, we take rain and floods more into account, as well as wind. Most houses here don't even have basements; the mall has a community storm shelter in the basement and there are several more in churches around the city.
Definitely tornadoes do move through there often..well that's my opinion I just hear of them more than topeka area where I am
@@bttrflygal nice place to grow potatoes😂
Absolutely love these videos. Keep 'em coming!
Fun fact.....Dennis Hopper appeared in the very first episode of The Rifleman starring Chuck Conners.
Best time to come to Dodge City is during Dodge City Days, 7 days of festivities and a pretty fun time, concerts are daily, clubbing until 2am and plus other things going on after that as well. Lasts from July to the first week of August typically.
The partial underground homes were called “earth homes” Built for utility reduction Cooler in the summer Popular in the 1970’s in the Midwest
I came here to say the same thing…. There are many of these in Missouri as well. A popular design during the energy crisis of the 70’s.
Hey! You were in the brewery while I was there. See myself in the back ground. Glad to see this video and happy to hear you enjoyed your time in Dodge City.
That is cool!
enjoyed the video, im a fan of cowboy films and how the people of the time lived etc, this was wonderfull, thank you both, ken, wales uk
I love Dodge City! Thank you for letting us nose in on your travels!
Awesome video, I’m currently in dodge city working on wind turbines, appreciate the little clip at the end. Learned a lot about the city’s history from this video.
Cool!
Thank you for the tour of dodge city very interesting I. Love it
Great video, LS. I remember visiting Dodge City as a kid many years ago when Mom & Dad took us kids out that way. It has changed quite a bit though since the early 60's when I was there. Might be time to re-visit Wyatt Earp's old stomping grounds in the near future. Nice to see Nicole with you on this trip, she is so cute with a great personality and you guys always make me laugh and smile during your travels. And please do continue your hotel ratings as it is a big help when we plan to travel as well. Thanks again for a look at Dodge City and look forward to watching many more of your videos!
Thank you for the great comment, Jimmy! 😀
One of his better videos, enjoyed it soooo much, he captured everything. Best video since his hometown video that of Frisco, Texas
The name of the wagon in the museum is Goliath and they built the building around it
I’m from Kansas and we used to have one of those old wagons on our farm when I was young. I’m pretty sure that one at the museum is authentic. I’m in my 60’s. We used to play on it all of the time. We had all sorts of old farm equipment that would be in museums now. We thought nothing of it back then.
The long branch saloon was where Clark Griswold was shot in Vacation by the bar keep
Another cool video. Although I'm not watching them in any particular order this is of real interest. I love anything to do with westerns, so to see the gunfight, statues of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday and to be in Dodge City is amazing to me. I'm in the UK and I'll never get to see the places you visit so to see what you're filming is the next best thing. Well done and thanks
Thank you, Gary. Deadwood, South Dakota is a cool western town as well - and yes, we did a video of it.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out!
Cool place to visit for vacation. A lot of western history. Thank you for sharing and stay safe.
Always love your videos,love to take the trips with you throughout the country,,,good luck to you
Thank you, Gerhard!
Great job. Great overview...!
I'm glad you and your wife enjoyed Dodge City. I spent quite a bit time there during my childhood for school and sports. Also, and especially during the hot months, just follow your nose and you'll find a feedlot. They're not hard to miss😂
My wife graduated from Dodge College with a nursing degree in the 2960's, we have been back several times. Thanks for the video.
2960’s? How’d y’all manage to time travel?
I stayed in a campground in Dodge City in my RV passing thru one time. A rather eccentric older lady owned / ran the place. It was a nice campground, interesting town. The place was right across from the RR tracks, which I enjoy when camping. Love the sound of a train in the middle of the night.
The Little store gas station Had some excellent beef jerky
Love your videos! Great presentation, great narration.
Thank you for the kind words, A B!
Grew up 50 miles west of ol Dodge City Ks. Love both towns.
WOW a lot has changed since I moved away 😲 and I appreciate y'all doing your video at Dodge City, Kansas... hope y'all enjoyed your visit/stay in our historical society, come again ‼️ Thank you 🤗
Thank you for watching, Tina! :)
Why did you move
I love your channel and you are my favorite tour guide.💕
Thank you Diane! 😀
So much wonderful old west history here, Wyatt Earp and Matt Dillion made this town famous
Would be a great stop...loved Tombstone. 🍻
My favorite town yet. Good job!
Dodge City is a nice and very interesting town, great. Video
I used to be a truck driver. Picked up in dodge city twice. I wish I would have had time to explore.
I actually live in dodge city Kansas I been living here my whole life and it's cool that u reviewed the city
We had a good time there!
You'll love Nebraska. I can tell you all about it. May I suggest a starting point? Cambridge Nebraska is home to the W. H. Faling House. It's on the national registry of historic buildings. My family once lived there (1955 - 1959). It's magnificent.
Thank you for this! Dodge is a wonderful place
It really is, Denise. I've always wanted to visit the city, I was excited to finally do it! :)
Wonderful video! Those wagon trails look like being on the moon! Cool gunfight!
Helpful video. Thanks for sharing. I think I will drive out there in in a week or so (if the weather holds)
Dodge City is a complex place. Neat down town and serious feedyard and agriculture. Signifies west Kansas
Thanks for sharing interesting content 👍🇺🇲
Thanks, I love your videos.
I was there 60 years ago, nice to see it again.
My mom played Miss Kitty for years!
Excellent video covering a great tourist destination. Guns, food, booze and the lovely Nicole, who could ask for more.
Thank you, Randy! 😀
Man! I am really enjoying your hard work on these videos! Well done!!
Thank you! The goal is for you to feel like you've been there yourself. :)
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip You have achieved and outdone your goal, for sure!! I feel so calm, like the pressure is off to see all of these places in person! 🙏
Should came this weekend Dodge city days starts 😁 Thank you for visiting our town ! Safe travels
Just now seen your comment. I said the same thing.
WHAT A WONDERFUL VIDEO THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH GREAT INFO YOUR SUCH A BLESSING 🥰✝
Thank you for the kind words, Pat!
Thanks for sharing.
Gunsmoke was about Dodge and the people and the Marshall who lived "thereabouts' in Dodge and so forth, the making of the show was just like so many of the other early TV productions. Gunsmoke was filmed on a set in Hollywood for scenes of the town of Dodge and all the outdoor scenes were made in the hills behind L.A./Beverly Hills.. If you notice in the shows the terrain is nothing like the mostly flat land of Kansas and the surrounding area. Despite all that, it is a great epic of an entertainment package and more young people of today should watch it because the show does teach virtues and all those great actors and actresses in the series would be good role models even for today's spoiled brats! LOL!
The recommended bars and grill I look forward to seeing. The drinks are interesting (I don't drink), and especially the food. Nice way to settle the dust after driving around. Also don't take away the hotel review. Keep those videos coming!
In the 5 months I was in Dodge City it snowed from November to March. There was nothing moving the streets were pretty much dirt everywhere the main thoroughfare through town was about the only thing that was really paved. The rest of it was sludge ice and snow. Old Dodge if you go there in the winter which would be between November and March is practically a ghost town. The only person I saw there was the attendant in the souvenir shop! And he said that I should have came during the summer so maybe that was my fault. But it does have five Slaughter houses with great steaks. If you're ever in town go to a place called The Silver Spur if it's still open? Like I said I was there 20 years ago. Happy travels!🤔
OUTSTANDING. Well Done. !👍🇺🇸
Thank you for the kind words, Charles. :)
In winter of 56/57, my senior year of high school in Wichita, I hitched from Wichita and through Dodge on the way to Colorado but, getting snowbound on the highway, was taken by highway patrol back to Dodge, where I was put on a Greyhound bus back to Wichita. I sat in a moldy overstuffed chair in the lounge of an old hotel, bored out of my mind with a Monkey Ward catalogue, to wait some hours for my bus. Near me was a row of old guys in overstuffed chairs. and we all just staired out the high windows at the blowing snow. Each one of them twidled his thumbs. The thumbs would go one way for awhile, then the other way, and the conversation went like this: "Looks like it'll snow a bit." "A few days, I'd say." "Could go a week." "Maybe." "Might quit tomorrow." "Maybe so. Or just three or four days." "Yeh, looks like it'll snow a bit." And the thumbs would go back and forth. Of course, this was after the town had been tamed.
Wow! What a great comment. Thank you.
Never heard anyone call it monkey ward lol. I totally knew exactly what you meant tho!
Thank you for this presentation and I enjoyed it. The Philippines.
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When you live in tornado alley, you want your home in ground...plus it helps with heating and cooling.
It's amazing how every city is like a ditto and all the wealth came with it Time and chance for all we inherited from above.
It was my very interesting place you've shown us especially the gun fight coz I like cowboy/cowboy's era thankyou hope to see many place as well.
Remember the "wife in tow" likes the "Roomy rooms".
I live in Amarillo, took my son to see Dodge and it wasn't quite as fun as y'all experienced but hen again, he and I arrived on a Saturday night and most everything's closed Sunday. What shocked me more than anything was the tax rate at 17 percent. We did go to the old fort outside of town then headed back to ol Amarillo. Great video caught most of what we missed.
Cool!
Nice tour .
A few lesser known gems in town are the 2nd Avenue art guild, which is an art gallery run and owned by local artists! Another is cowboy capital bar and grill which has the best steaks in town
You should have gone to boot hill.There is a wonderful statue of horse and rider. Plus very old graves.
Great hobby!
what a histological city.Thank you for this exciting video Spoda
Thanks for watching, Marwan. 😀
Hi, just love watching your vids! Question: the houses below ground, are they built that way to save inhabitants from storm damage? Do the low level houses have cellars below? Please keep on, excellent vids!! Cheers David and Yvonne, Queensland Australia ❤️😎😊🇦🇺❤️👍👏👏👏👏👏
That tall building with the stagecoach mural. I think Toby Keith wrote his famous song. "Should of been a Cowboy" in that building.
The barber pole colors of red and white represent the towels they used as surgeons. White for clean towel and red for the bloody one.
Interesting. I did not know that.
I really enjoyed this video!! As I do all you make!! More so because you know I am from Mulvane Kansas! Hey NICOLE!! Anyways I guess I need to try to catch up on all great videos you all have made!!! So safe travels always!! Who knows one day maybe cross paths with ya!! That would be awesome!! Take care!!! James
Cool, thank you, James! I'll tell Nicole hi for you. :)
Hope you grabbed some of the awesome fudge at the museum 😀
I live in Northeast Kansas. Topeka to be exact. I've been to Dodge City like once. And that was to go further southwest to go see my dad when he was living near there at the time. Need to see more of that part of the state. Like, I finally checked out downtown Holton because of your video because I thought the main street was US 75........
Also, the Kansas territory went out as far as just outside of Denver. And when they discovered gold in what was then the Kansas territory, the territorial government was like "ok, we've had to deal with railroads and cowboys, we are NOT going to deal with miners. Let them fend for themselves."
Back about 1980, 81, 82, my buddies and I would drive up to Ingalls Kansas to pheasants hunt. One of the guys uncle had a wheat farm. We would drive to Dodge City to have dinner. The best I remember there was a restaurant called the Sliver Spur. Best dang prime rib I've ever had. Gee, it hard to believe that was 40 years ago.
They always had a good buffet too
Omg I live in Dodge City I don't really pay much attention to this stuff anymore bc I've lived here for so long
I imagine those western shows such as Gunsmoke are very good shows. Also, I think in Alaska, the homes there are a little underground for better warmth since it is almost cold there year round. These brick streets are pretty cool.
I gave my oldest daughter the middle name of Nicole. I've always loved that name. Your wife is lovely and has a great on screen personality.
Thanks for showing. Doc Holiday is from Georgia. Born in Griffin , Ga. Some even say that he is buried beside his dad in a unmarked grave there in Griffin. The graves are marked with a historical sign. There is even a museum dedicated to Doc Holiday in Griffin. Many movies were even shot there. One movie shot there was '' Driven Mrs Daisy''. Shalom
The ground acts like an insolation from the heat. Keeps the homes cool in the summer time.
That was FUN!!!