Fort Hays Studies Series | Faculty Publications

The Fort Hays Studies Series is a series of monographs beginning in 1937 and published periodically until 2010. Written by FHSU faculty, these works cover topics including history, geology, biology, music, economics, and others. The Ethnic Studies Series is part of the larger collection and contains five monographs written on the history of the local Volga-German population.

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Women's Contribution to Industrial Development in America

Hazel M. Price

The following report is an attempt to analyze women's participation in the labor force, giving reference to the number and proportion of women employees, the particular industries and occupations where women have worked, and the relative advantages and disadvantages of these jobs among all women workers, and among women in relation to men workers.
English Literary Criticism 1726-1750

S. J. Sackett

The author's ambition is to share English literary crticism from the second quarter of the eighteenth century. In this way not only could the criticism of the quarter-century be encompassed in one volume, but also all the most significant works could be represented at least in part. The work of textual critics are featured to serve as illustrative examples.
The United States and the Independence of Buenos Aires

Eugene R. Craine

Prior to the era of revolution the people and the government of the United States came into contact chiefly with the border regions of Spain's American empire. Such areas as Florida, Texas, and the Greater Antilles were absorbing the attention of American expansionists. Thus, not only by action but by basic policy, the United Stateswas opposed to contributing to the independence of Buenos Aires.
Henry Miller: An Informal Biography 1924-1960

Esta Lou Riley

The compiler has called this work an informal bibliography for, as will be evident to the careful reader, many of the entries are not complete. It has been the intention of the compiler to make a bibliography which may be useful to the collector of Henry Miller's works and of that which has been written about him and his works. This has been done with the thought that even such slight information as is given may be helpful to someone searching for Henry Miller items.
A History of Fort Hays Kansas State College 1902-1961

Lyman Dwight Wooster

At this time, when Kansas is celebrating its centennial, it seems appropriate to gather together some of the records of Fort Hays State to preserve them as a heritage for those who will utilize the resources of the college in the future. Dr. L. D. Wooster, President Emeritus, recognized the importance of this heritage and spent the last years of his life gathering material for a history of Fort Hays Kansas State College.
Search and Research: An Approach

Fort Hays Kansas State College Department of Art Faculty

The five members of the faculty of the Art department are presenting this issue as a somewhat unique form of research in which we are intimately involved. We present no sources or references, but rather the creative products of this research into the phenomenon of the artist-teacher on the college campus and his role in relation to the college, and primarily the students with whom he works.
Distribution of Native Mammals Among the Communities of the Mixed Prairie

Edwin Perry Martin

From October, 1952, until August, 1958, the small mammals on a relict area near Hays, Kansas, were studied. The observations were undertaken to establish a standard to which the mammals of variously disturbed areas could be compared; also, information concerning the relations of the species of mammals to the communities of the mixed prairie was sought.
San Martín: One Hundred Years of Historiography

Katharine Ferris Nutt

It is the opinion of this writer that the answer to the riddle of San Martín may better be sought in his relations with Lord Cochrane than in those with Simon Bolívar and the Quayaquil controversy, an avenue which historians have for years followed without arriving at any satisfactory conclusion. It is this writer's purpose to show that the misunderstandings regarding San Martín's character and his place in history stem from a very logical and comprehensible situation.
The Long-Run Supply Curve: Some Factors Affecting Its Shape

Eugene Darrel Pauley

Since so much importance is attached to the price mechanism in the economic system, it is only natural that a large body of economic theory is concerned primarily with explaining how prices are determined. This writer is concerned with only one rather small phase of this body of theory--some of the influences affecting long-run supply. We are interested here in the behavior of the seller or supplier of a commodity.
Instrumental Music in Western Kansas Public Schools

Harold G. Palmer

The growth of music in Western Kansas, particularly in the field of instrumental music, has been constant and continuous since its inception in the schools. Western Kansas can be proud of its steady progressive movement in instrumental music and in the over-all caliber of musicianship that is found today in the school bands of this section of the state.
Proper Mixtures of Ellis County Soils for Adobe Construction, and Their Physical Properties PART II

Buster Wayne Read, W. G. Read, and H. A. Zinszer

Houses made of soil have been built for centuries, but until recently the trend had been away from soil to some other building material. Now, however, adobe is again beginning to be recognized as a satisfactory, reliable building material for our time.
Proper Mixtures of Ellis County Soils for Adobe Construction, and Their Physical Properties

Buster Wayne Read, W. G. Read, and H. A. Zinszer

This paper deals with the adobe strategy of construction which is mixing and puddling the materials to be applied to a sun-dried brick or to a structure of that material. The work was divided into three main parts: (1) Survey of Ellis County Soils; (2) Selection of soil material with respect to shrinkage; and (3) Treatment of soils with respect to waterproofing.
Pasture Types of Western Kansas in Relation to the Intensity of Utilization in Past Years

Gerald W. Tomanek

The purpose of this study is to determine the characteristics of five pastures that have been subjected to different intensities of grazing in the past 15 years.
Trego County Real Estate Assessment Plan

Vernon T. Clover

This study of the Trego County Real Estate Assessment Plan was undertaken in order to bring its main elements together into a systematic form. The philosophy of the plan and its technical application are explained.
Municipal Water Softening in Kansas

Roy Rankin

This study was made for the benefit of the more than one-half million residents of Kansas who live in cities and towns of the state and do not enjoy the advantage of soft water.
An Economic and Sociological Study of a Kansas Community

Vernon T. Clover

This is a survey of Ellis county, Kansas. The purpose was to discover what information of importance is available in regard to the economic and human characteristics of this county and of similar areas throughout the United States for the prewar year of 1940.
ISSAC McCOY: His Plan of and Work for Indian Colonization

Emory J. Lyons

Several books and articles have been written concerning Isaac McCoy, but as far as I am able to find out there has been no book, article, or research paper written on the plan of Indian colonization that originated with McCoy, and his work for the fulfillment of that plan.
Employees' Share of National Income, 1929 - 1941

Vernon T. Clover

Data in this paper indicate that employees are receiving an increasing share of the national income. This means that that employers, enterprisers, and property owners as a group have experienced a relative, although not absolute, decrease in their share in the national income.
Bat Masterson; The Dodge City Years

George G. Thompson

Kansas has an unusual and a brilliant history. The men who lived within its boundaries when this history was being made, and who helped make it, are becoming older each year; historians and biographers have only a short time in which to secure their stories, which will, otherwise, go with them when they die. With this thought in mind, the author has selected the life of William Barclay Masterson, a colorful figure in the history of Dodge City, Kansas, for preservation.
Some Aspects of Evolutionary Theory

George M. Robertson

The present contribution is not a unified account, but is a series of essays dealing with some aspects, but is a series of essays dealing with some aspects of evolutionary theory.
A Study of One Hundred Farm Security Administration Grant Families in Ellis County, Kansas 1939

Clair A. Bondurant

A short history has been prepared as an introduction to this study of Farm Security Administration grant families in Ellis county.
Studies in Clinical Psychology

George A. Kelly and F.B. Streeter

The manuscript of which this issue is the first part, contains studies by nine graduate students made under the direction of Dr. George A. Kelly, Director of the Fort Hays State College Clinic, and consists of 243 pages. The manuscript will be published in three or four parts.
Half Hours with Choral Speech

Pearl G. Cruise

Cruise's study contains a brief history of Choral Speech, choice selections, citation to selections in other sources, and directions for the use of this material.