Boot Hill Cemetery (1867-1874) in Hays City existed PRIOR TO a church community being established. Hays Presbyterian church was founded i...

Jacob P. Shutts and wife, Nellie, paid $120 for lots 2,4,6 & 8 in the Lebold Allen addition in 1908. The photo in the middle shows the st...

Father Blaine Burkey, the former research librarian from TMP, collected this historical knowledge of Hays into a book aptly titled Ellis ...

The Hays City Railroad Advance on November 9, 1867 writes: "Killed - The first death we have to record in our city took place on Tuesday ...

The Railway Advance was in operation for less than two years. Only two issues survive: Nov. 9, 1867 and June 23, 1868.

Twenty-four years after the last burial at Boot Hill Hays City, a humorous anecdote was published on March 11, 1898 by the Topeka State J...

March 2, 1878 the Hays Sentinel published:

Sometimes historical clippings raise more questions than they answer. On March 23, 1878 the Hays Sentinel newspaper published an advertis...

Do you have a story to share about Boot Hill? Photo from the King family collection at Ellis County Historical Society circa 1930s. Pleas...