Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-414) and index.
Contents
Setting the stage -- Fort Dodge -- A town, a railroad, and the buffalo trade -- Murders and mayhem -- Dodge City and the Red River War -- Securing the Texas cattle trade -- 1878: another year of chaos -- Stumbling toward the future -- Politics, cattle, and money -- The Dodge City War -- Reform vs. reality -- Moral rumblings and other diversions -- The ending of an era.
