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James H. Kelley, also known as Dog Kelley (c . 1833 - September 8, 1912), was an American frontiersman and businessman who as the mayor of Dodge City, Kansas, briefly supervised the law-enforcement careers of such officers as the Earp and Masterson brothers: Wyatt and Morgan Earp and Bat, Ed, and James Masterson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James H. "Dog" Kelley )〕 ==Military, political, and business career== Kelley's place of birth is unknown. After fighting in the Confederate Army, Kelley joined the 7th Cavalry Regiment as a scout under Lieutenant colonel and former General George Armstrong Custer. In 1872, the Seventh was stationed at the former Fort Dodge, Kansas. Because Kelley enjoyed hunting and greyhounds and had cared ably for Custer's own dogs, Custer gave him a parting gift from the Army: a dozen greyhounds. Once in Dodge City, often called simply "Dodge" but not to be confused with "Fort Dodge" some five miles to the southeast, Kelley raced his dogs in the open gambling culture of the frontier.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chapter Seventeen: Dodge City a Sporting Town )〕 Kelley also had a tame bear that he named "Paddy", which for a time became the town pet in Dodge City. As the animal grew larger and more rowdy, cowboys often tormented Paddy,〔 and the creature was exterminated in 1883 and served as the main dish at the community Christmas dinner.〔Kathie Bell, "Dodge City's Own James "Dog" Kelley", ''Dodge City Daily Globe'', March 14, 2007〕 In Dodge City, Kelley entered the restaurant business with Peter L. Beatty. Their Beatty & Kelley Restaurant adjoined the Alhambra Saloon, which they also co-owned. The original building had been moved to Dodge City from Hays in Ellis County, Kansas, where Kelley had apparently lived only for a few months.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Beatty & Kelley Restaurant )〕In business at the time with a general store was Robert M. Wright, one of the founders of Dodge City and from 1875 to 1883 a member of the Kansas House of Representatives and also a subsequent mayor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=George Laughhead, Robert M. Wright (1840-1915), Dodge City, Kansas: Town President, founder, pioneer, September 23, 2009 )〕 Beatty became the acting mayor in 1875. Kelley, who first served on the Dodge City town council, followed his business partner as mayor for the term from 1877 to 1881,〔 when he was defeated for reelection〔Bill O'Neal, ''Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters'' (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, (1979), p. 217〕 by Alonzo B. Webster, a former New Yorker and Union Army veteran. The government of Dodge City was then controlled by a clique of merchants, saloon operators, and gamblers known as "the Gang". This group favored opening the community to the cowboys from Texas who arrived in Dodge City at the end of their trail drives and brought heavy business to the town. In May 1877, the cowboys shot up the town so badly that Mayor Kelley wired Wyatt Earp, who was then in Deadwood, South Dakota, to return to Dodge City to bring order to the municipality. Earp became the deputy town marshal along with his brother Morgan Earp. He sought more severe sentences from the courts, barred certain troublemakers from Dodge City, and organized a citizens' committee to help guard the streets.〔 On April 9, 1878, after only eleven days as city marshal, Edward J. Masterson was murdered by drunken cowboys. On December 15, Mayor Kelley appointed Charlie Bassett, while still the sheriff of Ford County, to replace Ed Masterson with the simultaneous title of sheriff and assistant marshal. Ed Masterson had been appointed by the city council to replace Lawrence "Larry" Deger, who had quarreled with Mayor Kelley and was himself later the mayor. After Bat Masterson became sheriff, he named Bassett his undersheriff.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William B. Shillingberg, Wyatt Earp and the Buntline Special Myth )〕 By the time Kelley's term as mayor ended, with the triumph of an anti-Gang reformist group,〔 Dodge City had largedly settled down. He continued his restaurant partnership with Beatty until 1885. In 1886, he opened the Kelley Opera House, which he soon sold. For a total of twenty-six years, Kelley operated the Beatty & Kelley Restaurant, the Alhambra Saloon, and the opera house at the intersection of First Avenue and Front Street in Dodge City. He also invested heavily in local real estate.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James H. Kelley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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