Get a Room! Historic Western Hotels and Saloons Recall the Golden Era of the West

Hays House Council :: Grove, Kansas Seth Hays, Daniel Boone’s grandson, was the first white settler in Council Grove in 1847. In 1857 Hays built a two-story wood-frame building. The site served as a trading post, restaurant, hotel, courthouse, post office, printing office, meeting and social hall, and offered weary traders journeying between New Mexico and Missouri supplies, meals and rooms. Jesse James and General George Armstrong Custer were a few famous patrons of the Hays House. Today the