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S8, E5- “Giving Boot Hill the Boot” with Sarah Keiss

In the last episode of Season 8, Hollie is joined by FHSU MA student Sarah Keiss. Sarah talks about Hays’s Boot Hill cemetary and its memory.

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Selected Bibliography:

“Skeleton Found in Boot Hill Here Believed That of Dance Hall Girl Who Killed Herself.” Hays Daily News, May 29, 1909.

Ellis County Historical Society History Book Committee. At Home in Ellis County, Kansas 1867-1992: Volume 1. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1991.

Forsythe, James. Lighthouse on the Plains: Fort Hays State University, 1902-2002. Hays: Fort Hays State University, 2002.

Marquess, Hollie. “The Frontier Demimonde: Prostitution in Early Hays City, 1867-1883.” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 43, no. 4 (Winter 2020-21): 216-233. https://scholars.fhsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=history_facpub.

Are you interested in a history degree? We have online and on campus B.A. programs and we also have online and on campus M.A. programs in history or public history. Learn more at https://www.fhsu.edu/history/academic-program.

Season 6, Episode 7- “John F. Kennedy’s 1959 Visit to Hays, Kansas” with Randy Gonzales”

Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy sits at a banquet table with Sixth District chairman Norbert Dreiling of Hays at a fundraising dinner on Nov. 20, 1959. With them are students from Girls Catholic High School, who were servers at the banquet. Courtesy photo

In the last episode of this season, Hollie is joined by history department alum Randy Gonzales. Randy is an expert on J.F.K.’s 1959 visit to Hays, KS. Kennedy’s visit to Hays included a stop at the radio station, a news conference at Fort Hays State University (home of Victor E. Tiger and Victor E. History!), a parade, and a banquet.

At the banquet, guests had Apple Pie ala Democrat for dessert. Randy shared this photograph from his Apple Pie ala Democrat at the banquet held in 2019 that was a recreation of the 1959 event.

Randy recently worked to get a plaque put on the wall of the FHSU Memorial Union to commemorate Kennedy’s visit to Fort Hays.

Randy earned his M.A. in history at FHSU and wrote his thesis on Kennedy’s visit to Hays.

Are you interested in a history degree? We have online and on campus B.A. programs and we also have online and on campus M.A. programs in history or public history. Learn more at https://www.fhsu.edu/history/academic-program