Cheyenne

Almost 150 years ago this month, a group of Union Army soldiers were attacked and killed by Indians on the High Plains of northwest Kansas in what's come to be called the "Kidder Massacre" by some historians. Like many Native Americans, Commentator Rex Buchanan doesn't refer to the attack as a "massacre," but he did recently visit the site of the battle, near Beaver Creek in Sherman County.

Has springtime given you a case of wanderlust? Commentator Rex Buchanan says U.S. Highway 83, which runs north and south through the western third of Kansas, is well worth a weekend trip.