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The second site of Fort Fletcher, used from October 1866 to June 1867 and renamed Fort Hays in November 1866, was located at the confluence. [2] The confluence is located at 38°47′52″N 99°05′04″W / 38.79778°N 99.08444°W / 38.79778; -99.08444 about 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Walker, Kansas and 14 miles (23 km) southeast of
A chuckwagon, or chuck wagon, is a horse-drawn wagon operating as a mobile field kitchen and frequently covered with a white tarp, also called a camp wagon or round-up wagon. [1] It was historically used for the storage and transportation of food and cooking equipment on the prairies of the United States and Canada. [ 2 ]
A cover of the 1909 Santa Fe Railway pamphlet describing Fred Harvey hotels, dining rooms and sample menus. The Fred Harvey Company was the owner of the Harvey House chain of restaurants, hotels and other hospitality industry businesses alongside railroads in the Western United States.
There are two golf courses in the city, Fort Hays Municipal Golf Course and Smoky Hill Country Club. [69] [74] The municipal course is an 18-hole course located immediately southwest of the city, built around the Fort Hays historical site. [75] Smoky Hill Country Club is a private, 18-hole course that opened in the western part of the city in ...
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In addition, there are 10 additional race days including the Calgary Stampede, for the top wagons in the World Professional Chuckwagon Association and the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA), and the Lloydminster Colonial Days Fair, an optional meet between both associations for drivers who did not qualify for the Calgary Stampede
Lewis Field is a sport stadium in Hays, Kansas. The facility is primarily used by Fort Hays State University for college football team. The stadium is also the primary home field for Hays High School and Thomas More Prep-Marian. [1] It was named to honor William Alexander Lewis, president of Fort Hays State University from 1913 to 1933. [2]
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.