Dodge City: The Wickedest City of the Wild West

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  • @geographicstravel
    @geographicstravel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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    • @chrislittle2366
      @chrislittle2366 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thank you geographics I think I recommended this one when you did the deadwood one which I loved next wild West one it has to be done is tombstone you guys are awesome keep it up Eric and the writing team

    • @bethanywicker8990
      @bethanywicker8990 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You need to re edit this video. There are no American bison (buffalo) featured. Kind of important.

  • @leonstrand329
    @leonstrand329 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    lol showing water buffalo, when you really want the Bison

    • @christonamtb4089
      @christonamtb4089 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Do you know the difference between a buffalo and Bison?

    • @John-g6x1h
      @John-g6x1h 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I know, right? Was it kind of a weak joke? Did they ask somebody who'd never been to the United States to insert some "buffalo" video? Did they just ask AI to do it? Did they leave it in on purpose? Was my view of the American west completely wrong all these years?

    • @leonstrand329
      @leonstrand329 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@christonamtb4089 yes i live in North Dakota

    • @kathyshaull3220
      @kathyshaull3220 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      They are actually Bison. Not buffalo. Ridiculous to show an animal that lives in such a different environment.

    • @sirmingusdewiv8325
      @sirmingusdewiv8325 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@kathyshaull3220 Agreed. Different continent.

  • @lisawall3386
    @lisawall3386 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    You lost me with the water buffalo.

    • @geographicstravel
      @geographicstravel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Our proofer must not have caught that. I'll talk to the editors.

    • @martijnverwoerd8439
      @martijnverwoerd8439 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If images are more important than the story….oh my….

  • @ikopi56
    @ikopi56 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I grew up in Spearville, KS, which is located 17 miles east of Dodge City. Quite a few of my high school nights were spent cruising Wyatt Earp Blvd. In the very early 1980s, I moonlighted in the Front Street Replica as a "cowboy gunfighter". The last time I was back that way, they were still doing the tourist acts that we pioneered.

  • @ricksalisbury6728
    @ricksalisbury6728 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    Please learn the difference between American bison and African Cape buffalo.

    • @geographicstravel
      @geographicstravel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Jen's been training some junior editors. I'll talk to them about it, the proofer missed it as well.

    • @Austin_Niepołomice
      @Austin_Niepołomice 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@geographicstravel Are you paying a living wage? Or you targeting countries were labour is cheaper?

    • @AidenRyanAllure
      @AidenRyanAllure 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Austin_Niepołomiceat least it’s not all AI

  • @mikestone9129
    @mikestone9129 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    Kind of ruined the video by showing the water buffalo.

    • @terrywashburn6347
      @terrywashburn6347 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yeah, that was ridiculous.

    • @multipletanksyndrome
      @multipletanksyndrome 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Morons. I'm surrounded by morons.

    • @rustyrelicsfarm2406
      @rustyrelicsfarm2406 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@terrywashburn6347 Everybody's got a water Buffalo.

    • @trumpetmom8924
      @trumpetmom8924 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@rustyrelicsfarm2406 yours is fast, but mine is slow…

    • @w.borneman3732
      @w.borneman3732 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And mountains in Kansas. Bring back Simon please…

  • @mathew85
    @mathew85 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I couldn't stop watching the cat in the background in the beginning 😅😅😺

    • @trumpetmom8924
      @trumpetmom8924 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That’s Jade. 😊

  • @ace7158USMC
    @ace7158USMC 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Sorry but this is terrible editing. As a native of western Kansas we're literally known for praires and FLAT ground. You used mountains and the desert to describe Kansas.

  • @leddygee1896
    @leddygee1896 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    No giant cliffs or
    Mountains in Kansas…😁

    • @terrywashburn6347
      @terrywashburn6347 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I've been to Dodge City and it's flat as a pancake, that's why it's part of the Great Plains.

    • @noneyadamnbidness2920
      @noneyadamnbidness2920 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well you might be surprised to learn that there are some rather sizable cliffs scattered throughout the state of Kansas. Most are east of Wichita. But I can't recall any around Dodge though

    • @matthewwelsh294
      @matthewwelsh294 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And they used buffalos not bison lol

  • @donnamealy4877
    @donnamealy4877 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Nice research. As a Kansan, please - It’s ABBA-lean not Abe-a-lean. I had to stop watching for a minute while I laughed. Keep up the interesting work.

  • @aaronring4704
    @aaronring4704 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Fun fact: The namesake for Fort Dodge (and, by extension, Dodge City) in Kansas is in no way related to the namesake for Fort Dodge, Iowa.

  • @rogerpenske2411
    @rogerpenske2411 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I hope they keep you on board for this series of videos, Eric.

  • @bonniehoke-scedrov4906
    @bonniehoke-scedrov4906 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video! Thanks!

  • @waynep2654
    @waynep2654 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Really? You don't know the difference between a Bison and a Buffalo!??? Far out. Written by someone else and not researched. Yeah, nah.

  • @BritishTexan
    @BritishTexan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    All that research into the rich, wild history of Dodge City marred by consistent images of Water Buffalo in place of American Bison. Now I'm left wondering what other images were wrong. tsk tsk tsk Perhaps the editor needs a good talkin' to?

    • @jburrows24
      @jburrows24 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He needs to do better research and editing, that's for sure.

    • @baomao7243
      @baomao7243 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      DOH !! 😳

  • @resileaf9501
    @resileaf9501 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was fun! I love Wild West stories. They are so romanticized and exaggerated, it just makes the imagination go wild. It's no surprise why Wild West movies took off some decades ago.

    • @TheReubenShow
      @TheReubenShow 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think the idea of the "wild west" comes from the 30's, when the last of the named gunslingers were writing autobiographies.

  • @phosawelonewolf2886
    @phosawelonewolf2886 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Where were you born? That’s not US bison! Some people’s kids.

  • @nickysturzu1290
    @nickysturzu1290 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Loved the cat cameo in the begginning😅

  • @multipletanksyndrome
    @multipletanksyndrome 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Lol @ the way you said Abilene.

  • @anitahalbleib4141
    @anitahalbleib4141 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the town slogan now is can’t wait to get into dodge. i live about an hour from dodge city

  • @BA_1002
    @BA_1002 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh how far we have fallen 😂😂 I miss Simon

  • @jburrows24
    @jburrows24 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Born and raised in Dodge, this cracked me up.
    They still did cattle drives when i was a youngster, even down 2nd, 14th, & Wyatt Earp.
    Also, Hoover opened the first bar in a tent until for the Ft Dodge soldiers in a tent until the bldg was built.
    The mtns, bro. The mtns! Hahahaha. There are NOT mtns in Dodge.

  • @MeanestBean98
    @MeanestBean98 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It's really hard to watch after *continuous* mentions of Cape Buffalo and not American Bison.
    Maybe it's worth editing scripts to the word Bison and not Buffalo.

  • @hf541
    @hf541 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Correct me if I'm wrong, isn't Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone AZ?

    • @Aboz
      @Aboz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Boot Hill is a common name for fronteie cemetery. There's one in Deadwood. SD

    • @jburrows24
      @jburrows24 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The one in Tombstone was renamed to Boot Hill for tourist purposes.

    • @hf541
      @hf541 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jburrows24 No shit? Didn't know that. Appreciate the knowledge!

    • @hf541
      @hf541 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Aboz Gotcha, makes sense. Learned something new today, appreciate it

    • @rogerpenske2411
      @rogerpenske2411 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There is one on Tombstone. Maybe another one somewhere?

  • @gregmannos
    @gregmannos 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Was waiting on the video of cattle to be giraffes 🦒

  • @kristoferalexander7559
    @kristoferalexander7559 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Well, that was disappointing...

    • @jburrows24
      @jburrows24 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Agreed.

  • @NorthOntarian
    @NorthOntarian 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yes water buffalo are a very rare sight on the north american frontier lol

  • @SamBroadway
    @SamBroadway 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You actually showed a water buffalo instead of a western American buffalo. That's crazy and they are extremely different species

  • @teresachavez.a2zen
    @teresachavez.a2zen 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Learned two new words: Faro and farrow. Both of which can apply to Dodge City. Thanks!

    • @lucasmembrane4763
      @lucasmembrane4763 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Faro was a very popular card game in the old west. One reason it was popular was that its rules gave the dealer such a small advantage that customers in an honest game might play for a long time and experience many winning hands before they lost all the money. However, that feature of the game made it very difficult for an honest dealer to earn a decent living, so approximately 179% of the dealers cheated and made an awful lot of money. Wyatt Earp had started out as a bouncer in houses of prostitution, which was considered a proper
      apprenticeship for being a lawman, which was also very profitable. During the lengthy periods when he could not get elected to a juicy position in the constabulary, Earp spent quite a lot of time dealing Faro, which was also a profession to which a fellow who could control violent or potentially violent happenstances was well-suited.

  • @rogerthornton4068
    @rogerthornton4068 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The water buffaloes ruined the video. Big snafu.

  • @thesheb8311
    @thesheb8311 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Dodge City is now the stinkiest city in western Kansas.

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thanks For this Eric! Love your content ❤❤❤

  • @rogerpenske2411
    @rogerpenske2411 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Clint Eastwood! And Lee Van Spleef!

  • @ryanb974
    @ryanb974 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Not one shot of Kansas. And look up Garden City 50 miles west of Dodge, a lot of good stories from there

  • @557samma
    @557samma 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That keeps subscription finally kicking in

  • @patriciaposthumus6684
    @patriciaposthumus6684 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Would have been better if the editor used video and still photos of the American Bison (Buffalo) as opposed to the African Water Buffalo. Other than that it was very informative.

  • @mattdeinken6580
    @mattdeinken6580 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I haven't been to Dodge City Kansas but have been to tucson,tombstone,bisbee Arizona

  • @paulherman5822
    @paulherman5822 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just to see who recognizes the quote: "Wyatt Earp? He makes me burp!"
    😂

    • @lucasmembrane4763
      @lucasmembrane4763 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I remember it, but I don't remember from whom.

    • @paulherman5822
      @paulherman5822 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lucasmembrane4763 Spike Jones and his City Slickers from their album "Dinner Music For People Who Aren't That Hungry." 😁

    • @lucasmembrane4763
      @lucasmembrane4763 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@paulherman5822 Yes, I have listened to a lot of Spike Jones, and I have that record. I was thinking it might have been him, but I couldn't recall any of his records that were in the period when Wyatt Earp was a ubiquitous myth.

  • @kddicks5115
    @kddicks5115 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    KITTY!!☺️☺️☺️❤️❤️

    • @mathew85
      @mathew85 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lol I couldn't stop watching it😅

  • @campingwithruffles
    @campingwithruffles 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    that bebop reference made me come back to like and comment

  • @ElicBehexan
    @ElicBehexan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My wife's mother hails from Kinsley.

  • @johnransom1146
    @johnransom1146 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Water buffalo? Laugh of the day

  • @matthewwelsh294
    @matthewwelsh294 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why soo many people think Bisons are Buffalos?? They are not the same animal and look way different from each other lol

  • @TheAnnArnold
    @TheAnnArnold 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Do you have the boy Munster hairdo on purpose?

  • @Naftoor
    @Naftoor 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Who is this guy and where is the bald guy

  • @BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712
    @BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pretty sure I heard this in a Taz video game before.

  • @jimsbooksreadingandstuff
    @jimsbooksreadingandstuff 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A dodgy city indeed.

  • @rattlesnake3113
    @rattlesnake3113 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    All the cattle barns outside of town ruin the cool historical part of town. Yes, it smells like 💩 literally

  • @stepheng1523
    @stepheng1523 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sometimes these videos pop up amd i click before i remember whistler moved on. This guys not bad though, better than the last one i saw

  • @spenbour16
    @spenbour16 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    garbage research. Stopped watching when i saw water buffalo

    • @lisawall3386
      @lisawall3386 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@spenbour16 same

  • @doogle4144
    @doogle4144 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Catch you later Maurice!

  • @ThomasJBedgood
    @ThomasJBedgood 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    its ab like yous stomach muscles .... bro you seem to have issues with the a words. you did it with Appalachiantoo lol. but love your channel all the same lol keep it up

  • @thomasbrewer4564
    @thomasbrewer4564 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If you are going to talk Buffalo in Kansas around Dodge City, then at least have videos of real American Bison and not African buffalo. That is very poor video editing to have done that.

  • @bethanywicker8990
    @bethanywicker8990 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Kitty!!!

  • @Austin_Niepołomice
    @Austin_Niepołomice 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hire people who are paid a living wage and require actual qualifications instead of going on fiver or the cheapest option which it is clear you did. This channel isn't worth subscribing to if the people who run it clearly don't give a shit. Simon was right to leave.

  • @ryanb974
    @ryanb974 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Abilene… your pronouncing it with a hard A it’s a soft A

  • @williamjensen7042
    @williamjensen7042 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    this is so poorly written and edited.... the Sante Fe trail was for cattle driving not settlers, and the vastly bad selection of pics of water buffalo... Jesus who is doing the writing and editing now a the graphics site? fire the space what ever he is and bring back Simon; i couldnt even finish the video

  • @noobkiller100
    @noobkiller100 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very interesting

  • @djdrack4681
    @djdrack4681 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    great video but I always gotta wonder if "Wickedest City" etc is well earned? Back then was era of sensationalist journalism/headlines, pulp magazines, etc..."Any PR is good PR" comes to mind: they prob relished in the notoriety, as it was decent PR to get settlers. 'Major' rail stops in those early transcontinental rail days was also important.
    That said, I think there were prob a lot of mining towns/real frontier (and rustic) towns that were far more dangerous: from 'indian raids', to crime/iniquity, to "nobody will know" (cuz its a frontier location, and until they all had telegraphs, you could prob get away with a lot of serious crime fairly easily, w/o reprisal...Just travel to next town, say you're somebody else. done0.

  • @wh4070
    @wh4070 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jerome, AZ is the wickedest town of the west. Dodge is far more central

  • @boedacious
    @boedacious 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its called Geographics, not Zoographics guys, give em a break lol

  • @joshuamccormick5497
    @joshuamccormick5497 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And this channel fell off. Sad.

  • @tentmaker2254
    @tentmaker2254 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    BRING BACK SIMON

    • @resileaf9501
      @resileaf9501 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why do you want to force Simon to move channels?

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Please stop woth this pathetic request. He has his own geography channel you can watch.

    • @Canis_Lupus_Rex
      @Canis_Lupus_Rex 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      CRY HARDER!

  • @TheReubenShow
    @TheReubenShow 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am skipping this video after 4 minutes because they are showing African buffalo.
    When I see that the excuse is "my proofer must have missed that" You are telling me that you offshore your editing.
    three reasons to not watch this channel.
    1. Sloppy work/lack of real knowledge of the subject.
    2. Offshoring
    3. Blaming underlings.

  • @thecrippledone3325
    @thecrippledone3325 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This channel is doodoo now

  • @sdupont79
    @sdupont79 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Noooooooooope ditch the loser and I will start watching again...This guy is so bad it's literally painful to watch. Hell I will do it for free...