R. Dykstra & J. Manfra,Smithsonian
Everywhere American common culture has penetrated, people use the phrase win out of Dodge or Gettin' outta Dodge when referring to some dangerous or threatening or generally unpleasant situation. The metaphor is thought to possess originated among U.
S. troops during the Vietnam War, or but it anchors the idea that early Dodge City,Kansas, was an epic, or world-class theater of interpersonal violence and civic disorder. Consider this passage from the 2013 British crime novel,lost in Malm, by Torquil Macleod: The drive to Carlisle took approximately twenty-five minutes. The ancient...
Source: realclearhistory.com