Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City stands on the original Boot Hill, with a Front Street replica and a gun collection grouped by the lawmen, gamblers and cattle thieves who carried them.
Don’t miss
- Gun collection grouped by who carried them (lawmen, cattle thieves, gamblers)
- Historic Front Street replica (built from 1958)
- Summer live gunfight reenactments
- Long Branch Variety Show in the restored Great Western Hotel
- Santa Fe depot, one-room schoolhouse and blacksmith shop
Our notes
Boot Hill Museum recreates Dodge City’s Front Street, and its Guns That Won the West exhibit is the firearms highlight.
The guns are grouped by the people who carried them: frontiersmen, buffalo hunters, gamblers, lawmen and outlaws, with Winchester and Colt arms throughout, an extensive handcuff collection and an Old West jail cell.
Timeline
- 1870s Collection begins
- 1932 Beeson Museum opens in Dodge City
- 1964 Many Beeson items pass to Boot Hill when it closes
Plan your visit
- Gunfights and the Marshal Pass dinner show run only on select summer dates.
- Closed New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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