These three different new clips appeared in 1913. John Roth was the Marshall of Hays City and also tasked with moving the remains from...

Doreen Stadelman Deines Wente of Hays says her grandfather is in this photo: the man standing nearest the coffins who is holding his...

Hollie Marquess is a scholar of history at Fort Hays State University. She discusses her publication in this 9-minute podcast:...

When Martin Allen's daughter, Clara, died at age 12 in 1874 he created a new cemetery at the southwest corner of what is now 27th and...

Hays City was about six months old when this newspaper was published in April 1868. The vast majority of the Hays City Railway Advance...

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

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...

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...

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...