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Fort Hays, originally named Fort Fletcher, was a United States Army fort near Hays, Kansas. Active from 1865 to 1889 it was an important frontier post during the American Indian Wars of the late 19th century. Reopened as a historical park in 1929, it is now operated by the Kansas Historical Society as the Fort Hays State Historic Site. [2]
Fort Hays State University: Reveille: 1914 – 2003: Fort Hays State Reveille yearbooks [a] Kansas Kansas State University Resource includes K-State Salina books Royal Purple previously Bell Clapper & Sunrise: 1891 – 2009: Kansas Royal Purple yearbooks [a] Kansas University of Kansas: Quivira (1893), Jayhawker (1918+) 1893 – 1982 (sporadic)
Fort Hays State University (FHSU) is a public university in Hays, Kansas, United States. It is the largest university in western Kansas, and the fourth largest of the six state universities governed by the Kansas Board of Regents , with a total enrollment of approximately 15,100 students.
Seeking better defensive ground, Armes walked his command south toward Fort Hays while maintaining the defensive square. After 8 hours of combat, 2,000 rounds of defensive fire and 15 miles of movement in the square, the Cheyenne disengaged and withdrew as the troopers gained a bluff in sight of the fort. Company F, without reinforcements ...
In 1867, Fort Hays was established on a low slope south of Big Creek, its role being to provide security for the Smoky Hill Trail.For the most part, the "fort" was still just a bivouac of hundreds of tents in the late summer of 1867 [4] when it became the center of a war with the plains tribes over the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway parallel to the trail.
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Along the Dakota Hogback north of Laporte, Colorado, the Fort Hays Limestone formed a secondary hogback, which was extensively quarried for manufacture of up to 450,000 tons of cement a year. [9] The full depth of the Niobrara was quarried by the Western Portland Cement Company at Yankton, South Dakota , which supplied cement to the Panama ...
Fort Hays Tech North Central (formerly North Central Kansas Technical College, abbreviated NCK Tech) is a public technical school in Beloit, Kansas, United States. From its establishment in 1964 to the time the Kansas Board of Regents took over the college, the name of the school was North Central Kansas Area Vocational-Technical School .