Antique DODGE CITY KANSAS souvenir CUSTARD glass cup w/pic of High School

Description

A beautiful
3" wide
(including handle)
x 2 1/4" tall
antique souvenir
CUSTARD-GLASS
antique
DODGE CITY, KANSAS souvenir cup with a handle.
This is an authentic antique,
OVER ONE CENTURY OLD
, from a very historical old American 'western' town
!
Front of cup reads
:   "
High School, / Dodge City, Kans.
"
Condition
:   Cup is in excellent condition.  It has some very light wear on the gold gilt edge, otherwise NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  Please see pictures for overall condition.
Age
:   A TRUE ANTIQUE,
ca. 1890 - 1920
.
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This old custard cup is from the very historical old town of Dodge, Dodge City, Kansas. At the time this cup was in circulation, Dodge City was just settling down into an average American town after a very colorful and tumultuous beginning.  Originally Dodge was in the very heart of the buffalo country. Hardly had the railroad reached there when business began and dozens of RR cars a day were loaded with hides and meat to take to market and in return, dozens of carloads of provisions arrived each day.  Thus the streets of Dodge were lined with wagons, bringing in hides and meat to ship on the rail road, and getting supplies from the rail road, from early morning to late at night.  H.L. Sitler, the first settler of what became Dodge City, said; "If you stood on the hill above Dodge City, there was traffic as far as you could see, 24-hours a day, seven days a week."   Dodge City continued to be the buffalo capital of America until mass slaughter destroyed the huge herds and by the late 1870's the buffalo were gone as a source of revenue, but then huge herds of longhorn cattle were bring driven from Texas to the RR head at Dodge. For ten more years, over five million head of cattle were driven up the western branch of the Chisholm Trail - the Great Western Trail or Texas Trail - to Dodge City. Law and order came riding into town with well known names as W. B. 'Bat' Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Bill Thighman, and Charlie Bassett. It was out of these personalities that the famous fictional character of Gunsmokes' Marshal Matt Dillon evolved. Fort Dodge, Kansas was closed in 1882 and due to a January 1886 blizzard, the cattle drives ended. An illustrious period of history was over, but the legend of Dodge City strongly lives on thanks to Hollywood. Anyway, in short, here is a historical memento from that historically important town,
check it out!
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