Re: [gardeners] spring? get serious

margaret lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:20:22 -0700

At 08:52 PM 2/10/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Funny note re this post.  Am in the middle of a book by Nigel & 
>Adam Nicholson called Two Roads to Dodge City.  Always thought Dodge City 
>was a mythical cowboy town.
>Ginny in Prince George BC Zone 2 - who needs to brush up on her US geog.
>
What are the roads? Cattle trail from Texas and the Santa Fe Trail?  I
think Dodge City was on both. Is your book non-fiction?  Sounds
interesting. Dodge city has a real "boot hill" -- maybe the first, and some
brick buildings with bullet nicks in them from the old days.  The myths
came later, but it was and is a real town.  Margaret L