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Long Branch Saloon
Saloon in Dodge City
The Long Branch Saloon was a well-known saloon in Dodge City, Kansas, from about 1874 to 1885. It had several owners, most notably Chalk Beeson and gunfighterLuke Short.
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The establishment provided gambling and live entertainment, including Beeson's five-person orchestra. It was the scene of several altercations, shoot-outs, gunfights, and standoffs often associated with cattle towns in the American wild west.
Most famous was the 1879 Long Branch Saloon Gunfight, in which Frank Loving killed Levi Richardson.
Origins
The saloon was built as the result of a wager between cowboys and soldiers playing ball.
Bets were placed and if the cowboys beat the soldiers, the soldiers agreed to provide building materials to construct a saloon.[1]
Chalkley Beeson, a wealthy farmer and rancher, and William Harris bought the saloon in 1878.
Harris named it after his hometown of Long Branch, New Jersey.[2] It was a plain storefro