The Old West Town Of Dodge City Kansas - Visiting Boot Hill & Cowboy Stunt Show / Unusual Wax Museum
Dodge City Kansas Summer 2023
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welcome everyone Adam
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the woo here as a recording of this it
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is Tuesday July 18
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2023 I have decided to get the heck into
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Dodge not out of Dodge
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into Dodge City Kansas my first time
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here and I'm going to be checking out
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some of the local attractions history
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and whatever else I can stumble upon
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first thing is where I parked here at
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the Boot Hill
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information and Visitor Center
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next to the museum
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a Western Hotel a train
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I'm gonna see what I can find it is 98
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degrees gonna get up to 100 but I must
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be honest it doesn't really feel like it
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is that temperature out here
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I was in Arizona it was like 105 it felt
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like it was 180 I was in Florida it was
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85 degrees it felt like it was 103. this
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is 98 degrees 100 degrees it kind of
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feels like about 85.
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different kind of just different kind of
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environment or maybe I'm just getting
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acclimated to heat I'm inviting you to
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join me
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shall you Boot Hill quite a few Western
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spots that I have visited across the U.S
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reference call the area's Boot Hill
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was noticing the train over here in the
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parking area and it looks as if there is
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no parking fee
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which is nice but the train has some
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lights on it around it
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maybe leftover from the Christmas season
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or possibly even at night it is
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illuminated it looks like the
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steam is represented by the lights at
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the top there you can see the circular
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patterns which make up Cloud looking
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Steam
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this is number 1139 I go up these stairs
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this is nice a lot of times you'll see
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these trains on display and you're not
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allowed to go in the interior of them if
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this was just out here open to the
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elements
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and you can really get a
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a good look at all the little bells and
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whistles and the gears and nozzles
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that are all through here
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it's called the Dynamo air pump that
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nozzle right there if you turn that
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people have carved their
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names lots of hearts
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I'm not going to downplay it is it is
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warm just not as warm as it feels like
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so I'm not going to complain about
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popping in here real quick and getting a
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little more information
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inside the museum all right stepping in
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the cost was 18 so they give you a
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wristband so adult price 18 raise and a
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Ruckus oh I hear a storm back there
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Whiskey Women guns and groceries
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raising a Ruckus sounds like there's a
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storm a brewing
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back in here
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really nice theming through here this
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whole wagon
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right here talking about the dance hall
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girls and this is a coat made out of
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Buffalo High definitely would keep you
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warm in those winter months for sure but
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there's a little miniature train going
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by here
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there's a stagecoach
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passengers there were unspoken rules
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don't smoke a cigar pipe in the couch
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don't spit tobacco into the wind you
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don't spit into the wind yeah just
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riding along in the stagecoach here it's
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a nice view of the old dusty Plains
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let me get off here though
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there's a Dodge City look at this
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there's a Dodge City
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sign right there for the train station
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here's the depot and the train right oh
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here we go
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be a conductor
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got some maps of the Western Cattle
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Trails over here Texas Longhorn
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in this section just reading off of the
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little information placards there it
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also where cattle feed so got to be
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aware of them
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oh it's a big windmill right there and a
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list of all the different brands
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when you think of brands
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they think of brand name merchandise but
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brand meaning the brand you put for the
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different farms and ranchers that own
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the cattle on the side
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of the cattle and the cows
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just something about this air that's
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very fascinating oh look at this this
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chair yeah a bunch of
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cattle horns
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it's like something you wear to a wake
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look at this little handle you put your
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hand in between there to warm your hands
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up
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okay I'd hope that I could walk through
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here into the saloon the recreation of
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the saloon but these are kind of
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kind of mounted on here just for looks
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but take a look at this there's a little
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bit of a of a hoedown going over here in
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the Opera House on the saloon
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this guy's dancing right over here with
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this this lady guys cowboy hat up in the
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air oh it's there you go snowing over
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there you can see the emulating of the
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snow all right stepping outside now into
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this area you got the general outfitting
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here you got the Long Branch you got
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dried Goods you got the city drugstore
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you got the Saratoga Saloon and from
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here
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you go up the side of the stairs of this
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walkway up the hill
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Boot Hill really is on a hill the jail
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was built about 1865.
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sad are you in here buddy
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only incarcerated at knots
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nice looking good here I just expect the
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satellite started talking back at me
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I got a hole in the ground maybe that's
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where
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you did your business
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that kind of adds to the Ambiance right
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creakiness
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lock you up and throw away the key
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probably not a long-term jail if I don't
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say shot
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I don't think anyone's getting out of
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that train
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heading into Boot Hill now into Boot
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Hill the precise Boot Hill Charles
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Whedon
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December 10th
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1876. did he get into the rest of it
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over here and there's a little display
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talking about the Hollywood era of Dodge
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City of course Gunsmoke was very popular
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it's like a musical instrument walking
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on this floor right here so this boot
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used to be on top of the original sign
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see there's like a boot like right there
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so this is the neon boot that is still
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here right over here it used to be on
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the original Museum built back in 1947.
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I love this place so much
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just the sounds of the creeks and then
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you step out of that hallway with the
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boot and you go into this area here
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where they talk about the cattle trails
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and that is yeah
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there's a cattle right there's a steer
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right there
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just here
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a caretaker
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got the scale here for weigh-in
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this way in the cattle
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Bobby Flores says they weren't allowed
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to go over the tracks we had to go
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through the tunnels under the tracks in
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those days there were lots of trains we
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were told to use a tunnel of the East
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because in the other tunnel was a big
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black dog with red eyes that would get
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you I do not see the dog represented
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here on oh I do never mind the tunnel
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yeah go through this way you do not want
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to go through the tunnel here because
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there's the dog with red eyes that could
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get you
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asks
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and on the other side of the fence is a
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home that looks like something
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out of Amityville
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1872-1879 any traveler who may pass this
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way climbed the Lonely Hill to pause and
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say a prayer
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for those who really found our rest upon
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the Prairie Windswept ages for us we
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have little listings here like Ed
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Williams
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passed on in 1873
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Ed Hurley
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drank too much and loved unwisely Mac
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McDermott 1873
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Charles Morehouse
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1872
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George Hoy August
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1878. you see Jack Wagner here and you
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also see that there are boots so as I
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interpret it Boot Hill is because the
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Cowboys boots are always at the top of
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the hill
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their headstones a buffalo Hunter named
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McGill who amused himself shooting at
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every house he passed he won't pass this
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way again he passed on in 1873 I'm
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reading right here off the side
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seemed like a real rubber Rebel Rouser
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back inside now a couple more figures
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over here is making a fire here
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for a cook some stew up for the evening
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perhaps or maybe to keep warm
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you got some Miniatures over here some
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stage coaches horses Cowboys people
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working on their Farm
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oh hello there hello
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so she is there in her rocking chair in
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this little farmhouse
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Cottage you will
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sod house okay
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it's called a sod house
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the only reason I know that
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because it says so right here
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contrast to The Elegant Victoria homes
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early homes in Dodge City were sod
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houses or dugouts
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Henry L Stiller it's stiff now stittler
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built the first home a three-room sod
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house back in 1871 made
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Assad
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look at this
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fascinating
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all right now into the saloon
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where are you from I'm from Florida is
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that a spatoon down there yep it is
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actually a quarter is called s-u-a-da
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SWA
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spell Suwannee that way in Florida
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yep
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you always calls s-u-a-m
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either way I think there's a Suwanee
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River
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sure enough people get big people come
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in a saloon to buy a water not too much
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when it's this hot outside
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oh can you do something for me can you
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slide it down the bar to me I can try
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the plastic doesn't move nearly as
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easily as the glass does
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a slight assets down the best fruit
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bottles down pat those are harder let's
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try it let's try it see if it works hold
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on hold on let me uh let me do this one
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all right
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yeah it's gonna be harder the plastic is
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stickier it's not gonna break this last
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no that's what I mean we got it that
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worked
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just kind of continue through
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so How the West Was one over here in
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fact there's a little bit of a showdown
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about to happen
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right over here dating back to 1881
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these two guys I almost called them
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gentlemen I mean one of them
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oh that's not going well
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enough for us to hold the small
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congregation
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you got the piano on one side and the
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organist on the other
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so they evidently just didn't always
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brand
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animals they also branded
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things that they owned so that way
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people could say oh that's that's my
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trainer that's my little horse buggy no
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no it's not my Brand's on it I do love a
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good wax museum
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I don't know how to slow wax museums in
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general
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the ones that aren't good they've been
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investment even though there was one
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you can check this out
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all right going up the stairs here this
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was ten dollars also
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oh look at that that's pretty cool
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that's a good mural all right all right
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this is Buffalo Bill
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Buffalo Bill right here
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William F Cody Buffalo Bill
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y the kid
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oh this is like a neon thing that I got
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the black light up here clay Allison
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age 37 and a fall from a wagon while
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drunk
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wow
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before he passed the
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he took out 35 men
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see there's the boots up right there
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Boot Hill
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oh man this is so good
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this is so good
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Jesse over here on the left and then his
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brother Frank
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on the right
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Jesse James
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Davey Crockett King of the Wild Frontier
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there's a parrot over here that he's an
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eyeballing it's like Mean Mug in the
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parrot
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see him right there see his eyes it's
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just like
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talk to me like that parrot
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Dalton Gang
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yeah that's who this is
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I had no idea there was a wax museum
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here in town
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in the mirror you can see the reflection
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of the Daltons there
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and there
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Chief Sitting Bull
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so quiet up here
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oh bad Masterson
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I don't know which one of these is bad
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math oh there we go duck holiday
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that Masterson in the middle Wyatt Earp
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right here
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all these mirrors are really kind of
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throwing me off because I'm looking into
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the mirror now but you can see the
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behind me
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and then they're here there's also a
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mirror there that you can see me in
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behind the saloon
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okay these are the TV show the CBS
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gunsmokes characters Miss Kitty Festus
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doc
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and also some other surprises that have
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nothing to do with the old west we gotta
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a scary spooky section over here we got
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The Wolf Man
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looming over the corner
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it was a snake right there on that rock
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a wolf man
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Dracula
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I don't know who this is like unearthing
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one of these Cowboys coming out of the
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ground like something out of a Romero
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film
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and over in the corner
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Frankie
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Frankenstein's monster but I call it
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Frankie I don't know why I'm whispering
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I want Frankenstein to hear me this
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oh I look
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I look a little spooky in here too
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I love myself more wax figures
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I don't know why something about wax
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figures so why am I whispering
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I just feel like it's so quiet in here I
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should be whispering
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the JFK right there definitely don't
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miss this when you're in town
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life-size figures the old west sculpted
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wax but it is located inside a different
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building
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for the outside besides that one signage
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when you walk up you think is it really
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going to be in this
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other Museum but it's upstairs
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right over here next to the road
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some crows and birds
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playing
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playing a card game here
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who Could That who could this be
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oh it's Doc Holliday I just read the
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size Doc Holliday here oh he's reaching
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for something there
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looks like someone's been cheating
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there's Marshall Dylan right there from
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the TV show standing in front of the
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visitor information center with his
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cowboy boots on quite a bit of
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construction going on over here but part
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of the Walk of Fame they got back in
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2003 Dennis Weaver
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put his hand prints down here
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he's part of the trail of Fame
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a very impressive sculpture here
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El Capitan
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greeting all the visitors and locals to
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the area
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was placed here back in 1980. oh that is
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so good look at those saloon doors right
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there I just want to push through those
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and it is appropriate there's a train
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going by because this area was still is
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a railroad town the one and only Wyatt
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Earp
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Marshall here in town
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and also he's always looking out for
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buffalo
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quite an impressive
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piece right there too that's sculpture
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looks like he looked like he's looking
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over at the train
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almost like a sundial or a Labyrinth of
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some sort probably a sundial it's a
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couple of them
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a couple older trains over there too oh
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baby ducks
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baby dogs mama duck
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I love ducks
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Dennis Hopper
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was born
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lived here for a while but this was his
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hometown ah here we go Henry Fonda
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Trade Wide Open My Darling Clementine
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and I've started over 200 movies
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okay so Ben Bates
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has his hands up 2017 put his hands here
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and also back in 2005 James Arness
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put his hand prints scribbled his name
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there to date
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it is now 101 degrees out here
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it's a very unique old structure right
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there
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pigeon flying by
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whoa must be Burt Reynolds or something
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played Quint asper
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blacksmith on the show from 62 to 65.
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all right I ended up
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getting a coffee here that red beard
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coffee they opened up in 2017 and they
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had especially brewed coffee so I got a
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piping hot caffeinated beverage even
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though it's 101 degrees they also had
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some complimentary water in there I
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chugged quite a few
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cups of that and
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they're very kind so I ended up looking
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at the merchandise and I bought a
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t-shirt to do with some construction on
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the top of the coffee shop
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the rest assured they were open and I
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just took a sip of this and holy cow it
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is tasty that is good
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that's a good cup of coffee right there
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I must say
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Red Beard coffee here in Dodge City
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Kansas murals of plenty
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out here
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this looks to be a repurposed Muffler
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Man of course Muffler Man seen across
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the U.S
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we're like roadside relics
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they used to advertise muffler places
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and the way their hands are held they
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hold a muffler sometimes you'll see like
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a Paul Bunyan Muffler Man they'll have
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like an ax
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in their hand this one
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this mobile man
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and the salsa man oh
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who was born here
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was enthralled with the original Muffler
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Man had two Muffler Men made one being
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the salsa made what the heck Dennis
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Hopper made this
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they tore the country with Dennis
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Hopper's art show
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yes I mean I love Dennis Hopper anyway
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this is a
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this gives me one reason
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because I love Muffler Man
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the first movie I really remember young
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seeing Dennis Hopper in that I really
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kind of latched on to his acting prowess
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and skills was Hoosiers played the drunk
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dad and Hoosiers and then of course
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since then I love him in a lot of other
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films but I think of Dennis Hopper I
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always think of that role
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but gosh he's been in so many different
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things
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my Trails have become your highways
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7 million head of longhorns does that
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match up with you
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I thought it was 4 million at the Museum
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four or seven maybe
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it might have been seven
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there's a lot of very historical things
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this Bell
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and I was reading
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that this was the very first sculpture
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placed here in town
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and it was restored a few years ago
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take a look at this
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the model for this was Joe
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sugri
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sugary a cowboy
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and Chief from 1933 to 1936.
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it was modeled by a dentist
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and from what I was reading the reason
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he made it because
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well I was thinking maybe he would have
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some teeth there if you don't see any
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teeth so the dentist saying my thoughts
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on that kind of go out the window
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but this is the very first sculpture
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designed in town
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signifying the old west the history of
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it
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and it's still here
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and it sits atop
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of Boot Hill
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in fact on the other side of this
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Distillery
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is Boot Hill
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technically I'm on Boot Hill but that's
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where all the headstones are
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and that coffee shop is down there
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that's where the little Walk of Fame is
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and he's just overlooking
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dog City this is the shirt that I got
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from Red Beard coffee Wild West
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so I ended up picking this up and also
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heading back over here to the museum
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because it's six o'clock we're gonna be
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doing a little showdown in here I don't
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want to miss that
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all part of the show
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forcing this spring at the last Marshall
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got gut shot I'm very sorry about that
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but I didn't come up here a few years
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and we'd never have to do that before
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do now
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oh wow
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wow I'm full on what the heck
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holy cat
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oh
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they're going back in the saloon
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got their bandanas on
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I go rob this all there
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is
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one I sent the other one
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otherwise
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all right I guess I won
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take this money
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where do you guys come from
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tell you what you're in love
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I ain't no shape stick no holes
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no
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pretty good whiskey okay what folks on
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round balls world famous Blue Hill
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gunfire
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glad I stuck around for that that was
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awesome
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well that's gonna do it for today
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from Boot Hill
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here in Dodge City Kansas
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I'll see you the next video the Vlog
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is over