Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-05 | Page 1 | Once Wild and Woolly Dodge City to be Transfer Point on Air-Rail Line

Once Wild and W g City to toD I IBe D O IL A- A Ain in 1 I Be Transfer Point on Rail Air-Rail Line I Passengers However Ho ever Will Find No Blazing BlaZin 1 Six-Guns Six at Famed Pioneer Crossroads p 4 q I DODGE CITY Kan Dec 5 AP Dodge Dodge City the wild and woolly cow capital of pioneer days where the southwestern cattle and buffalo trails joined at the terminus of the meandering Santa Fe railway building build build- ing ino west along the then better known trail has been chosen to play an important part in blazing the way for a new means of transcontinental trans trana continental travel Announcement has been made that the city will be the middle western stern transfer station of ot the air air- rail rall lino line to be bo established next I spring pring by the Transcontinental Air Transport rt and the tho Santa Fo Fe railroad rail rall road Other transfer points will willbe willbe be Columbus Ohio and Las Vegas N. N M. M FLY TO DODGE CITY Transcontinental passengers leaving leaving baying leav bay S ing New York at night by train will wUl transfer to plane tho the following morning at Columbus fl fly to Dodge City entrain for Las Vegas and return t to the air the tho second day for fol forthe forthe the tho lIght flight to the coast Passengers who leave leavo the plane piane for tor th the here will find pd a a. v p i City Y t t. t 5 t. t S iJ ut l t r those hardy pioneers who quit the ie railway for the plain a a. halt half century y yago ago when Dodge City was the bloodiest wildest cow town to of ot tho the west where there 10 for a a. decade cross crossed d the trails of ot every bad man known and unknown to history and legend leg The crossing was usually accompanied accompanied With the blazing of ers era and informal funerals FIELD SELECTED Colonel Charles A A. A Lindbergh in his recent flight to Mexico picked out a virgin prairie landing field I adjacent to tho the city and lying be between between be- be tween the tho Santa Fe railroad and the famous old trail That however how bow ever will furnish the sole solo reminder remind remind- er or to the fleeting passengers of this pioneer crucible of ot the lawless lawless' west No landmarks of the tho brief era which furnished much o of tho the material materi material mate mate- ri rial l real and imaginary of ot the dime novel period of the American lit literatUre literature lit lit- remain Fire has removed ell all the buildings most of pf were s boons 81 and dance halls in which tho the elemental elem tempers tempels of the cowboys buffalo hunters soldiers railroad graders grader scouts couts and other othel two sun ight rs e 1 t l i f 1 z I t r f