I love stories from the old west in the US. While I'm very grateful I didn't live there back in the 1880's, the stories are amazing! Dodge City, Kansas today is a nice quiet place to live. But in the 1850's to 1890's it was a wild town with plenty of gunfights and legendary lawmen. Some of the notable ones were Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, and though not a lawman an the time Doc Holliday was there with his friend Wyatt.
Why do I bring up Dodge City? Because it's featured on this silver bar:
About the silver bar:
Composition: 99.9% silver
Mint: Northwest Territorial Mint, Auburn, Washington state, US (no longer exists)
Obverse: Stage coach at full gallop with lettering: Stagecoach Silver, For When You Have To Get Out Of Dodge
Reverse: Divisible partitions to divide the bar into four equal parts
The phrase get out of Dodge means to leave town quickly to avoid a dangerous situation. It's a common phrase still used the US and in movies. And what better way to get out of Dodge than with silver in your pocket? This bar even comes with dividers to break up the main bar into four equal smaller ones. Why anyone would actually do that is beyond me, but to each their own! I love the oxidation on this beautiful bar, it gives it a great patina.
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Dodge City around 1875 to 1880
Dodge City started off as a cattle town, where cattle drives would arrive from Texas to be sent by train to their final destination. This turned it into a boom town very quickly with saloons, gambling halls, and brothels popping up all over town. It was also know to have more gunfighters working there than any other town in the old west.
One of the more famous events that took place in Dodge on April 9, 1878 when town Marshall was Ed Masterson. His deputies included Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. He had vowed to disarm all men in Dodge to stop all of the violence, but he was murdered by a drunken cowboy he was attempting to disarm him. His brother Bat Masterson then jumped in and killed the cowboy and shot another cowboy who had his gun drawn.
Wikipedia, Dodge City deputies Wyatt Earp seated and Bat Masterson standing
Masterson moved with Wyatt Earp to Tombstone the following year but was called back to Dodge to help his brother Jim after only a few months. It turned out his brother was fine. However after a shootout in the Long Branch Saloon he and his brother "got out of Dodge" to Colorado. In 1883 what became known as the Dodge City War started when the mayor ran Masterson's friend Luke Short of out town and closed his Long Branch Saloon and others in town (and brothels) to try to control the violence. Masterson recruited Wyatt Earp (after the OK Corral and revenge ride) and several other notable lawmen to assist him to set things "right" in Dodge. After the arrival of the group of lawmen the mayor backed down and the war ended without bloodshed.
An iconic photo was taken on the group then known as the Dodge City Peace Commission.
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From Wikipedia:
The "Dodge City Peace Commission" June 10, 1883. (Standing from left) William H. Harris (1845–1895), Luke Short (1854–1893), William "Bat" Masterson (1853–1921), William F. Petillon (1846–1917), (seated from left) Charlie Bassett (1847–1896), Wyatt Earp (1848–1929), Michael Francis "Frank" McLean (1854–1902), Cornelius "Neil" Brown (1844–1926). Photo by Charles A. Conkling.
Dodge city was a very violent and dangerous place to live in the late 1800's. Beyond the violence the cattle were an additional danger causing outbreaks of inhalation Anthrax from time to time which were almost always fatal. Not to mention sexually transmitted diseased like Syphilis. It probably didn't smell great either with no air conditioning....not to mention all of the cattle. All of those things would have gotten me out of Dodge. Eventually it transformed itself into the peaceful city that exits today, but the old saying "get out of Dodge" lives on.
References:
https://www.montanararities.com/stagecoach-silver-bar-1oz.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_City,_Kansas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Masterson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyatt_Earp
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Immaculate Conception must be a Catholic holiday I assume? We don't have it here it the US.
I assume so, although I'm officially catholic, I don't practice any religion so I never looked into it. I just remember that anytime there's a holiday, I discover a new name of a holy person they celebrate. There are a few of these dates I should mark in the calendar because of beach fires and music etc. Now that we live downhill I don't want to miss these celebrations anymore, haha.
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That's pretty awesome. I like the fact that it has the divisions on the back. I would imagine if you ever had to use silver for actual currency, you might like the fact that you can split it up like that.
I think that's the point, hopefully that day will never come but you never know. You can get mint state ones out there still, but I liked this one because it looks well aged! Kind of how I like my bourbon!
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Western stories are exciting. She watched dozens of western movies with my grandfather when she was little.
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The history of the west is so interesting!😀
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Thanks! It's a nice bar to have in the stack. The old west just has so many interesting stories and characters...
So very true, I always liked living in the mountains of Colorado, knowing that some of the outlaws were known to have hidden out in this country!😀
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