Editing Hays, Kansas (section)

==In popular culture==
Hays has been a setting of multiple films. ''[[The Plainsman]]'' (1936) and ''[[Wild Bill (1995 film)|Wild Bill]]'' (1995), both of which dramatize the life and career of Wild Bill Hickok, are partially set in Hays during the late 1860s and early 1870s.<ref>{{cite web | title = The Plainsman (1936) | website = [[IMDb]] | url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028108/ | access-date = November 1, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite video | people = [[Walter Hill (director)|Hill, Walter]] (director) | title = ''Wild Bill'' | medium = Film | publisher = [[United Artists]] | location = U.S.A. | date = 1995}}</ref> ''[[Paper Moon (film)|Paper Moon]]'' (1973) is partially set in [[Great Depression]]-era Hays, and a portion of the film was shot in the city.<ref>{{cite web | title = Paper Moon | publisher = Moviediva | date = November 2010 | url = http://www.moviediva.com/MD_root/reviewpages/MDPaperMoon.htm | access-date = November 1, 2011}}</ref>  Hays was also the subject of the song 'Hays, Kansas' by the band 49 Winchester.<ref>{{cite web | title = 49 Winchester's 'Hays, Kansas' Inspired By Road Trip Gone Wrong  | publisher = The Boot | year = 2020 | url = https://theboot.com/49-winchester-hays-kansas/ | access-date = September 29, 2020}}</ref>

Hays was the subject of an April 1952 cultural article in ''[[National Geographic]]'' magazine.<ref name=Natgeo>{{Citation | last = Detwiler | first = Margaret M. | title = Hays Kansas at the Nation's Heart | place = [[Washington D.C.]] | publisher = National Geographic Society | year = 1952 }}</ref>