Dodge City
Speech parts
1. Dodge City - Noun
2. Dodge City - Proper noun
Meaning
a town of southwestern Kansas on the Arkansas River; formerly a rowdy cow town
Source: WordNetExamples
Dodge City was another wild cowboy town, and both Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp worked as lawmen in the town.
It also has a beef packing plant in Dodge City and has grain handling operations, soybean crushing and flour milling interest across the state.
In 1866-95, cowboys herded 10 million cattle north to rail heads such as Dodge City, Kansas Robert R. Dykstra, Cattle Towns: A Social History of the Kansas Cattle Trading Centers (1968) and Ogallala, Nebraska ; from there, cattle were shipped eastward.
By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West.
Blanca Sandoval, who's been doing catechesis for 15 years in her parish in the Diocese of Dodge City, Kansas, said that parents in particular need to get more involved in parish life.
The town soon became home to "Hell's Half-Acre", the biggest collection of saloons, dance halls, and bawdy houses south of Dodge City (the northern terminus of the Chisholm Trail), giving Fort Worth the nickname of "The Paris of the Plains".