Kansans hope bison will develop Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve into a tourist destination

In this place where the prairie meets the Ponderosa Pine, the rainbows are brilliant. For a brief hour, rays of sunshine win the battle with a cold South Dakota mist, and the result is a full rainbow — its arc ...

• A taste of Oktoberfest: Celebrate fall with German food, festive beverages
  His freshman year at the University of Stuttgart, Bernhard Minke may have had too much fun celebrating Oktoberfest. Minke, a Kansas University graduate student, attended his first Oktoberfest celebration at Stuttgart’s Cannstatter Volksfest, Germany’s second-largest Oktoberfest celebration.
• See ‘Home and Away’ for peek of haunted Atchison
  Various patrons of a riverfront restaurant reported seeing a mysterious woman dressed in Victorian garb. Unexplained paranormal phenomenon and physical attacks were witnessed at a house on Second Street. And a ghost appears to take center stage after dark at the town theater.
• Herd of wild bison being moved from South Dakota to Kansas' Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
  Leaders of a national park in the Kansas Flint Hills are close to completing a project to obtain a herd of wild bison for visitors of the park to see.
• Bed-and-breakfast offers quaint piece of history
  Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Old Stone House Along the Oregon Trail in Tecumseh is now a bed-and-breakfast, but it is also known as the Eli Hopkins House in recognition of its original owner.

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