The Dodge City Chronicle

The Dodge City Chronicle is a gen fiction anthology of Gunsmoke fiction by Christine Jeffords.
==Issue 1==
The Dodge City Chronicle 1 was published in 2001 and contains 206 pages. It has no interior art.
The story summaries below are by the author.
* Author-torial (2) 
* Foreshadowing ("Set three years before the series premiere. Doc Adams finds an injured man down by the Arkansas River, and makes a friend." (4) 
* Matt Finds a Deputy ("Set a month or two before the series begins. Recently promoted Marshal Matt Dillon, looking after Dodge with no assistance at all, meets a young man named Chester Goode...") (22) 
* Resignation ("A coda to the half-hour episode "Bloody Hands" (2nd season). How Matt, Chester, and Kitty reacted to the news of Linda's murder by Stanger and Matt's decision to take him on.") (39) 
* Turning Points ("A coda to "Kitty's Outlaw." Matt decides he should have given Kitty the chance to explain her relationship with Cole Yankton in depth, and is astonished at what he learns.") (46) 
* Encounter ("Written for the seventh delphi GS Message Board Challenge ("Louie Pheeters thinks he has seen a ghost"), the frame is set in 13'h season, but the main story occurs in 3"'. Coming home from a last fall fishing trip, Chester comes upon an isolated sod house whose resident farm wife proves a surprise in more ways than one.") (53) 
* Masquerade ("Set during the first hour (7th) season. Matt and Chester interrupt a stage robbery and capture one of the outlaws, who turns out to have a secret they'd never have suspected.") (72) 
* Standoff ("Set during the transitional season (8th) in which Chester and Festus were featured together. While Matt's off to Topeka to fetch a prisoner, the man's partners seize the jailhouse and take Chester as a hostage. Quint and Festus must deal with this situation before Matt can walk in on them.") (114) 
* The End of the Mile ("A coda to "Crooked Mile," one of my favorite BW's (10th season), which, though superficially about Quint finding and losing a love, takes as its subtext his friendship with Festus. How Festus tried to help Quint past Susan Degler's death, and what happened next.") (143) 
* Thad's Reunion ("Set during the hiatus over the summer of '67 (between 12th and 13th seasons). Thad Greenwood's older brother, Clayton Lowell Greenwood, brings his family to Dodge to settle, and revelations result.") (153)
* Medicine Man ("Tied to the historical flight of the Northern Cheyennes from the Indian Territory, as chronicled in the book Cheyenne Autumn (see the Author's Note). Doc and Festus are captured by the fugitive Indians, and Matt and Newly set out in pursuit.")
* Corrie ("Written for the sixth GS Board Challenge ("Put yourself, or some version of you, in the GS Universe"), and set in 16th season. A stubborn young woman clashes with a Texas drover, revealed to be her brother, who's determined to get a half share of the ranch their father established.")
*Storm From the North ("Set in 17th season. A surprising young stranger who calls himself Reason Carlyle -- and claims to have been reared 1200 miles to the north by the Plains Cree -- rides into Dodge, and Festus is convinced he's trouble.")
*After 'The Foundling' ("Suggested by Annick. Matt and Kitty deal with the emotional residue of Kitty's surrender of infant Mary to Maylee Baines.")
==Author's Notes for Issue #1==
==Issue 2==
The Dodge City Chronicle 2
* Author-torial	2	
* Medicine Man	3	
* Corrie 38		
* Storm from the North	119	
* After "The Foundling"	178	
Category:Gunsmoke
Category:2000s