Dodge City Queen of Cowtowns Author:Stanley Vestal, Stanley Vestal In the 1870s and 1880s, Dodge City was known as the wickedest in the American West. But gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort finally lost their bloody battle with vigilantes, troopers, railroad men and heroic peace officers. "(Stanley) Vestal astutely plays it soft and quiet, presenting the documented facts, leaving his reader fr... more »ee to make of them what he will". 8 photos.« less