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from Wildest of the WILD WesT by Howard Bryan
Most of the excitement, however, was provided by a shadowy collection of reckless adventurers from various Kansas rail and cow towns who became loosely organized in Las Vegas as the Dodge City gang. They took over the new railroad town of east Las Vegas, as distinguished from the older santa Fe Trail town of West Las Vegas on the opposite bank of the narrow and shallow gallinas River, and for a brief period thay ran the fledgling town pretty much as they pleased.
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