This town was famous in the Wild West days. However, it is quite far from my home in Kansas City (about a 5-1/2 hour drive). I had never really been in the southwest part of my current resident state. But it was along my route this trip so decided I had to drive through town, just to say I have been to Dodge City. But, disappointing.

I (wrongly) assumed that Boot Hill Cemetery was like any other cemetery in the country: always open and free. This was is hidden behind fences and a building where payment is required, and then only when they are open. I snapped a few photos of the mock old west town buildings then I "Got out of Dodge".

On my drive from the Texas panhandle to the Washita Battlefield on Oklahoma then later on to Dodge City, I noticed that the air smelled heavily of smoke. I kept wondering why the area smelt burnt and felt sorry for the locals who had to breathe that air. In the distance to the north I saw big clouds that were probably smoke. North of Rosston OK and almost to the KS-OK border, I finally saw that they were burning their fields. In fact, a smoke cloud covered part of the highway. I had noticed on the drive that cars would leave a trail of smoke behind them, as if running over a big pile of dry dust. Must have been the ashes/residue of field burning.