Alan, that sounds like a dream to me, a really nice one right now! I can't even get my husband to agree to buying a travel trailer, and since he's the one who would have to drive it, I have to respect that.
But boy, I am envious of your idyll.
My grandparents were from Nebraska, as are my husband's, and I'd love to see some of those sites for genealogical research. We were both born very far from Nebraska so it was weird to find we had this in common, all these places.
I had a great great uncle killed by the Sioux in South Dakota.