(“Dodge City and the Birth of the Wild West,” by Robert K. Dykstra and Jo Ann Manfra, $45, 240 pages, University Press of Kansas) Get outta Dodge. Dodge City, Kansas, that is. A figure of ...

An old but seldom-used punishment seems to be coming back in vogue as a way to handle troublesome juveniles–at least in courtrooms around the Chicago area: Kick them out of town.A McHenry County ...

The wand'ring spirit's taken hold of designers of late—from the hoofing impulse we clocked in our Fall Trend Reports to Steven Alan's recent get-outta-Dodge (and, admittedly, into a pretty nice ...