Three towns re-create the state's Wild West heritage, although only in the westernmost, Dodge City, does the scrubby landscape conform to the cowboy-movie image. Abilene , if less famous than Dodge City, has as many outlaw and gunslinger stories, and Wichita , about 200 miles southwest of Kansas City, holds an excellent, authentic reconstruction of frontier days in its Old Cowtown Museum.

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