Dodge City, KS

Dodge City is the county seat of Ford County in southwest Kansas, famous well beyond its size for its Old West history. The city grew near Fort Dodge, which was built to protect travelers on the Santa Fe Trail, and later became a cattle town whose name still carries frontier weight. Modern Dodge City has meatpacking, regional services, museums, and tourism tied to that history. It is both a working High Plains city and one of the places Americans still associate with saloons, cattle drives, and frontier law.