I hit Historic Fort Hays before heading towards Nebraska for the day, I will try and get some photos up during the ‘winter months’. Fort Hays was the last fort that Kevin Kostner hit’s in the film ‘Dances with Wolves’. Not a huge amount of buildings left standing. The blockhouse was pretty interesting, an octogonal (actually I am just making this up, I need to figure out the total number of sides and use the appropriate term) shaped defensive structure in case of attack by the natives with openings for guns everywhere, almost circular 2 story building. In all the years in operation the natives never did attack, no interest was ever shown of a desire to attack, I guess that was all happening elsewhere.
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