After getting the work done on the coach, we headed to Boot Hill Museum, not really expecting much. Many of Dodge City's "tourist attractions" open after Memorial Day. When we were buying our tickets, they said they were having the dinner, gunfight and show because a tour bus was coming through. We decided to go and were pleasantly surprised, as we were by the museum. The street is a replica of the street in the 1870's-the original burned. The museum includes part of the original cemetery and many artifacts from the time Dodge was the "Wild West". The museum employs 100 high school students for the summer and they certainly added alot of life to the show. The can-can girls don't have to worry about their figures as long as they keep that routine up. The boys in the gunfight doubled as singing bartenders and the piano man The show was very entertaining but the gunfight was a little hokey....as I guess it's supposed to be.
We went to today's Front Street area where there is a statue of Wyatt Earp and El Capitan-a long horn who led one of the biggest cattle drives to Dodge. Today's shops were mostly empty. The only things we missed were the Cowboy Statue, made from a plaster mold of a cowboy who almost died when the straw he was getting his air from collapsed and the original wheel ruts of the Santa Fe Trail that are still there after 150 years.
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