Defending Fort Hays

By MATT PETRIE

Elizabeth Custer, the wife of Lt. Col. George Amstrong Custer, once summed up his encampment near the Kansas outpost of Fort Hays this way: "There was enough desperate history in that little town in one summer to make a whole library of dime novels."

Apparently it's a desperate history that some at Fort Hays State University would like to...