Dodge City

A city of southwest Kansas on the Arkansas River west of Wichita. It was a major railroad shipping point for Texas cattle in the 1880s and gained notoriety for its lawlessness.

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Dodge City

(Placename) a city in SW Kansas, on the Arkansas River: famous as a frontier town on the Santa Fe Trail. Pop: 25 568 (2003 est)

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Dodge′ Cit′y

a city in SW Kansas, on the Arkansas River: important frontier town and railhead on the old Santa Fe route. 18,001.

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Dodge City - a town of southwestern Kansas on the Arkansas River; formerly a rowdy cow town

Kansas, KS, Sunflower State - a state in midwestern United States

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Three bold and experienced men - cool, confident, and dry when they began; white, quivering, and wet when they finished their trick at those terrible wheels - swung her over the great lift from Albuquerque to Glorietta and beyond Springer, up and up to the Raton Tunnel on the State line, whence they dropped rocking into La Junta, had sight of the Arkansaw, and tore down the long slope to Dodge City, where Cheyne took comfort once again from setting his watch an hour ahead.

At Dodge City an unknown hand threw in a copy of a Kansas paper containing some sort of an interview with Harvey, who had evidently fallen in with an enterprising reporter, telegraphed on from Boston.

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IT was like "Dodge City" when paratroopers opened fire on Bloody Sunday, a witness said yesterday.

DERRY LIKE DODGE CITY AS PARAS OPENED FIRE; Mum's Bloody Sunday trauma

High Plains Journal, Dodge City, KS, Booths 115 & 117--The High Plains and Midwest's are leading agricultural publications covering 12 states in the heart of farm and ranch country.

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A US serviceman's wife told the Bloody Sunday Inquiry yesterday that Derry's Bogside was like Dodge City on the day paratroopers shot dead 13 people.

'IT WAS LIKE DODGE CITY WHEN ARMY OPENED FIRE' Bloody Sunday probe told of mum's fear

The Dodge City Globe reports that the new 120-bed building is scheduled to be completed by July 2014, with students moving in by fall of that year.

Dodge City CC building new dorm

Roto-Mix operates three facilities, which employ over 110 people in Dodge City, Hoisington and Scott City, KS.

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Naturally, we can't allow Kosovo to turn into Dodge City. There have already been some sickening revenge attacks on innocent Serb civilians who have hurt no one.

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They also believe the center would make Dodge City more attractive to prospective community college students, possibly attracting as many as 200 more each year.

Kan. college plans agriculture center