Fort Dodge

Dodge City Kansas

Also see: Col Dodge   –    1873    –    Adobe Walls    –   April 1933   When Dodge City Was Wild and Wooly By E. A. Brininstoll   This photograph of a street scene in Dodge City, in Ford County, depicts three of the town’s buildings. The building on the left was the first dance hall in Dodge City. The second building was a grocery and general store, and the third building, also a general store. Visible are a crowd of men standing in the street, and two horse-drawn wagons loaded with buffalo hides. Dodge City is located on … Read more

Colonel Dodge

A long and career in United States Army   Richard Irving Dodge (May 19, 1827 – June 16, 1895) was a colonel in the United States Army. Dodge was born in North Carolina and died after a long and successful career in the U.S. Army. He began as a cadet in 1844 and retired as a Colonel May 19, 1891. Dodge was Aide-De-Camp to General William Tecumseh Sherman from 1881–1882. In the second publishing of his memoirs General Sherman wrote, “… the vacancy made by Colonel McCook was filled by Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, Twenty-third Infantry then serving at a cantonment on the Upper … Read more