While I’ve always associated Dodge City with the television series Gunsmoke, obviously the story goes a little deeper – especially since Gunsmoke wasn’t even filmed in Dodge City, but rather on a set located outside Knab, Utah. Oh, well – that’s Hollywood. Fort Dodge was constructed during the Indian Wars in the middle 1860s to […]
December 8, 2015
As mentioned a post or two ago, we’ve continued last winter’s hotel hunt, which involved chasing Fred Harvey and the Harvey Girls through the Southwest, seeing the spots where the West was settled “one meal at a time.” Though my husband was kinda sick of the whole Fred thing, I was thrilled to have the […]
November 28, 2014
You probably think cowboys or settlers tamed the frontier, but actually it was Fred Harvey. While not exactly a household name today, there was a time when just about everyone in Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada had at least heard of him, even if they had not yet been fed by him. Fred Harvey […]
November 1, 2016
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