After crossing Monarch Pass we were chased down into Salida by threatening storm clouds. We went on with the storm behind us, staying in Pueblo, through La Junta and Lamar. As soon as we crossed the border into Kansas, a vicious crosswind picked up and we wouldn't have been the least surprised to see Dorothy and Toto go flying by !! Ultimately we stopped in Dodge City, the former wild west stop on the Santa Fe Trail and the current centre of the beef feed lots of the great west. Trucks full of live stock have replaced the cattle drives of the past, and they currently process 6,000 head/day, 6 days/week.
The picture of Boot Hill's graveyard, where you got buried with yer boots on....is of J.M. Essington who died in November 1882. It states that he owed a hotel and, while drunk and in a fuss, he was shot and instantly killed by the hotel cook. There a number of original grave markers and fascinating stories behind each.
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