DODGE CITY, a city of south-western Kansas, U.S.A., on the Arkansas river, at an altitude of 2,478ft.; the county seat of Ford county. It is on Federal highways 5oS and 154, and is served by the Rock Island and the Santa Fe railways. The popu lation in 1925 was 6,099; in 193o by Federal census 10,059. It has railroad shops, flour-mills, a dressed poultry plant and cream eries, and is the supply centre for a large agricultural and stock raising area. The meridian separating "central" from "mountain" time passes through the city. Dodge City was settled about 1872 and incorporated in 1875. It was a famous frontier town on the old Santa Fe trail, the rendezvous of picturesque characters, the centre of important freighting lines and headquarters of the cattle business. At the peak, in 1884, herds aggregating 8,000,000 head of cattle passed through from Texas, in charge of 3,00o men. There were immense herds of buffalo in this region. Hunting parties often killed 2 5o in a day, and the first trains often had to wait hours while a herd crossed the track. The first winter after the Santa Fe came through, 200,000 buffalo hides were shipped from Dodge City. At some stations in the vicinity shipments of buffalo bones in 1875 averaged a car load a day. On the river 5m. E. of the city is old Ft. Dodge, an important frontier garrison, now the State home for disabled volunteer soldiers.