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- The Delectable Burg: An Irreverent History of Dodge City - 1872 to 1886
The Delectable Burg: An Irreverent History of Dodge City - 1872 to 1886
A true telling of Dodge City's history without political correctness and Hollywood hype -The DELECTABLE BURG, a name given to Dodge City by Bat Masterson and its newspaper editors, describes the characters who are often omitted from histories of Old Dodge: alcoholics, prostitutes, crooked gamblers, acquitted killers, innocent travelers cheated and robbed, African Americans and Native Americans pitifully treated.
From its most violent buffalo hunting days to several fires in the 1880s that destroyed its famous Front Street, these stories are the true history of a "delectable burg" - Dodge City.
Fredric R. Young is the author of Dodge City, Up Through a Century in Story and Pictures. Born in 1931, he is one of five generations of his family who have been residents of Dodge City. Young calls himself "a true amateur historian" who has spent the past fifty years reading court and register of deeds records, early newspapers, and letters, in search of the truth about his hometown.