Big Kerfluffle in Dodge City

[Bruce Day]

From the Dodge City Cattle Call 1879

After the latest bunch of Texas cowboys and their tick ridden beeves blew into town unrest followed in the previously peaceful streets. Gunshots at the Long Branch , fistfights at Pelosi's Bawdy House and a generally unruly situation. It culminated when one of the drunken cow hands shot through Alderman Paul's window at 2 am . Calling an emergency meeting of the town council, a new ordinance was passed unanimously. I've had enough of this nonsense Paul was heard to exclaim.

That afternoon Marshall Wyatt Clinton and Deputy Doc Bama were busy erecting new signs at the town boundary. As the cowhands were sobering up and getting released from the hoosegow, one particularly hung over chap muttered "we'll see about this no gun law as soon as I ride home to Bug Scuffle , Texas", not realizing he had shot his horse the previous night while mistaking it for Quannah Parker. "I'm going to write President Bigtalk just as soon as I can find somebody who can write . These fools must all be dimocrats ."