Little House on the Prairie, Burr Oak, Ia. Travel USA, Mr. Peacock & Friends, Hidden Treasures
On Mr. Peacock’s & Mrs. Peacock latest adventure, they discovered a hidden treasure of a one of the homes of Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Burr Oak, Iowa. See the Masters Hotel where Laura Ingalls Wilder, aurthor of the Little House On The Prairie books and TV series family worked after suffering a grasshopper plague on their farm from Mr. Peacock & Mrs. Peacock in their latest adventure.
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Plum Creek and the Missing Years
Pamela Smith Hill focuses on the Ingalls family from 1876-1878, after the Ingalls leave Minnesota for Burr Oak, Iowa, to help run a hotel.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder - Genesee Country Village and Museum
Did you know that Almanzo Wilder was born near Malone, N.Y.? Or that Charles Ingalls was born in Cuba, N.Y.?
Celebrate the writings of one of the most popular writers of 19th-century frontier life with Laura Ingalls Wilder Day on Aug. 11-12 and learn more about Laura's ties to Western New York.
Commemorated through two television series and 10 novels, Laura Ingalls captured the imagination of girls of every age.
For the museum's fifth year hosting this fun-filled and historic weekend, special guests will include the following:
Ms Charlotte Stewart, the actress who portrayed teacher Miss Beadle in over 40 episodes of the television series Little House on the Prairie.
Ms Lucy Lee Flippin, who performed as Almanzo's sister Eliza Jane Wilder -- Laura's teacher and future sister-in-law during the last several seasons of Little House on the Prairie.
Both teachers will be available for an autograph session - twice each day of the event. Autographs are limited to 100 signatures per session. Visitors must pre-register for the autograph session and purchase a ticket. Registration will be located near the autograph area on the Village Square. Ticket prices are $5 for autograph signed on an item purchased at the museum and $10 for an autograph signed on an item brought from home. Note: these prices are per item, but include the signatures of both teachers.
A Victorian Ladies' Fashion Show at the main stage area will show visitors what women of Laura's time period would have been wearing - view beautiful selections from the museum's closet all the while learning about undergarments and head coverings. This fashion show will include the history of the bustle and how it was worn.
Meet the leading Laura Ingalls Wilder expert -- and renowned author and historian -- Mr William Anderson. Author of several books on the Ingalls family including Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Bill Anderson will be speaking each day and sharing his years of research with Laura fans. Book signings are free and will be available throughout the weekend.
From kneading bread and churning butter to creating corn husk dolls ($1) or running sack races, the historic village will be alive with activities that a young Laura (or Almanzo) would have experienced.
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Who Is Laura Ingalls Wilder?
Laura Ingalls Wilder (/ˈɪŋɡəlz/; February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer, most notably the author of the Little House series of children's novels based on her childhood in a pioneer family. Her daughter, Rose, encouraged her to write and helped her to edit and publish the novels.
A popular 1974–84 TV series, Little House on the Prairie, was loosely based on the Little House books, starring Michael Landon as Charles Ingalls and Melissa Gilbert as Laura, his daughter.
Laura was born on February 7, 1867, seven miles north of the village of Pepin in the Big Woods region of Wisconsin, to Charles Phillip Ingalls and Caroline Lake (Quiner) Ingalls. She was the second of five children, following Mary Amelia, who went blind in her teens.[a] Their three younger siblings were Caroline Celestia, Charles Frederick (who died in infancy), and Grace Pearl. Her birth site is commemorated by a replica log cabin, the Little House Wayside. Life there formed the basis for her first book, Little House in the Big Woods.
Laura was a descendant of the Delano family, relatives of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose progenitor emigrated on the Mayflower in 1620, and of Edmund Rice, who emigrated in 1638 to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. One paternal ancestor, Edmund Ingalls, was born on June 27, 1586, in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England, and emigrated to America, where he died in Lynn, Massachusetts, on September 16, 1648
Family on the move
The Ingalls family moved from the Big Woods of Wisconsin in the year 1869, before Laura was two years old. They stopped in Rothville, Missouri, and settled in Kansas, in Indian Country near what is now Independence. Her younger sister Carrie (1870–1946) was born there in August 1870, soon before they moved again. According to her, Charles had been told that the location would soon be open to white settlers but that was incorrect; their homestead was actually on the Osage Indian reservation and they had no legal right to occupy it. They had only just begun to farm when they were informed of their error, and they departed in 1871. Several neighbors stayed and fought eviction.
From Kansas they returned to Wisconsin where they lived for the next four years. Those experiences formed the basis for Little House on the Prairie and Little House in the Big Woods, although the fictional chronology does not match the fact: Laura was about one to three years old in Kansas and four to seven in Wisconsin; in the novels she is four to five in Wisconsin (Big Woods) and six to seven in Kansas (Prairie). According to a letter from Rose to biographer William Anderson, the publisher had her change her age in Prairie because it seemed unrealistic for a three-year-old to have memories so specific as her story of life in Kansas. To be consistent with her already established chronology, she made herself six to seven years old in Prairie and seven to nine years old in On the Banks of Plum Creek, the third volume of her fictionalized history, which takes place around 1874.
On the Banks of Plum Creek shows them moving from Kansas to an area near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, and settling in a dugout on the banks of Plum Creek. They really lived there beginning in 1874 when Laura was about seven. That year Charles' restless spirit led them to Lake City, Minnesota, and then on to a preemption claim in Walnut Grove, where they lived for a time with relatives near South Troy, Minnesota. Laura's little brother, Freddie, was born there on November 1, 1875; he died only nine months later on August 27, 1876. They next moved to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they helped run a hotel. Laura's youngest sibling, Grace, was born there on May 23, 1877.
They moved from Burr Oak back to Walnut Grove, where Charles served as the town butcher and justice of the peace. He accepted a railroad job in the spring of 1879, which took him to eastern Dakota Territory where they joined him that fall. Laura did not write about 1876–1877 when they lived near Burr Oak, but skipped directly to Dakota Territory, portrayed in By the Shores of Silver Lake. Thus the fictional timeline caught up with her real life.
Walnut Grove, MN: Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum part 2, Video 9
Here is some more of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum. I tried to take video of parts that I thought were special or important. I guess you can say, this is Patti's take on the museum. I hope you like it. Thanks for watching!
Laura Ingalls Wilder House, Mansfield, Missouri (aka Rocky Ridge Farm)
This video is about our visit to the Laura Ingalls Wilder House in 2013.
Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder's House - Kansas
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The Real Laura Ingalls of Little House on the Prairie
My Girl Hero Laura Ingalls Wilder is one of my favorite writers, not just because her stories are so interesting to read but because many of the events she describes really happened to her.
Laura Ingalls was born on February 7, 1867 just outside of the little village of Pepin, Wisconsin. She was the second oldest of her parent's four surviving children, all of which were girls.
Laura's parents were pioneers heading west, just one of thousands of families encouraged by the US government to set up homesteads on lands that had belonged to Native American tribes.
So, through most of her childhood, her family moved A LOT.
Beginning in Wisconsin,
they moved to Missouri,
then Kansas,
then back to Wisconsin,
then Minnesota,
then Iowa,
then back to Minnesota,
then to the Dakota Territories
Then they finally settled down in South Dakota. (show lines on map on iphone?)
Phew!
You practically need an app to keep up.
When she was 18, Laura Ingalls married Almanzo Wilder. When they first settled down, the future looked promising but her life grew hard. Almanzo became ill, family deaths and terrible fires took their toll and the young family's finances began to fail.
So once again in Laura's life, she went on the move. Laura, Almanzo and their daughter, Rose, finally settled in Mansfield, Missouri and this is where her writing career began.
Laura worked as a writer and editor for a local newspaper and developed a loyal readership who enjoyed her stories of home and family life, travel adventures and the expanding options for women of the times. At the same time, Rose, now grown-up and travelling the world had become a well known writer on her own.
Rose encouraged her mother to expand on the stories she had already begun work on based on her pioneer childhood but it wasn't until the legendary stock market crash in 1929 that publishing the stories became urgent.
You see, Laura and her husband lost most of their money at the beginning of the Great Depression. Millions of people were out of work, farms were drying up and times were bad for everyone. With Rose's experience in publishing, Laura was able to quickly improve her stories and find a publisher.
And I am am so glad she did. I love the Little House books and so do millions of others around the world.
Ever since the her first book, Little House in the Big Woods, was published in 1932, Laura's books have never stopped being printed and have been translated into 40 languages.
Laura Ingalls Wilder lived to the grand old age of 90 but she will forever live on in my imagination as little Laura Ingalls.
Thank you, Laura!
Image and Sound Attributions
Rocky Ridge Farm, Mansfield, Missouri By TimothyMN - CC BY-SA 3.0,
Gravesite of Laura Ingalls Wilder and husband Almanzo Wilder at Mansfield Cemetery, Mansfield, Missouri. Buried next to them is daughter Rose Wilder Lane. By Julie Jordan Scott - CC BY 2.0,
Map of the United States of America 1845 courtesy of Norman B. Leventhal Map Center used under Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
Little House Wayside - Birthplace of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Aaron Carlson used under Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)
State of Wisconsin 1886 courtesy of Norman B. Leventhal Map Center used under Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
iPhone by World Super Cars at English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 ( via Wikimedia Commons
Little House on the prarie book image by m01229 used under Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Entrance to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove, Minnesota image By Scott Catron (English Wikipedia [1]) [GFDL ( or CC-BY-SA-3.0 ( via Wikimedia Commons
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Corn Husk Doll By John Morgan (Flickr: Palm Doll) [CC BY 2.0 ( via Wikimedia Commons
Pioneer Girl, Helping Mom, Oak Glen, Ca 5-2008 by Don Graham used under Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Rocket sound by Cydon used under the Creative Commons License
Tardis By Edjoerv (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Laura Ingalls Wilder was known for the Little House on the Prairie series
New Laura Ingalls Wilder museum opens in Mansfield Missouri
The brand new, $1.5 million Laura Ingalls Wilder museum and library was many years in the making. The original Laura Ingalls Wilder museum opened in 1971, next to the Mansfield home where Wilder wrote her famous Little House on the Prairie books.
Since the opening of that first museum, the dream has been to build a bigger, newer facility. Today, that dream comes to fruition.
I hope that children will be coming to see this a hundred years from now. And now we have a building, that can happen, says Jean Coday, director of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association.
Sandra Hume drove down from Colorado to be here for the ribbon cutting. She is a life-long fan of the author.
I'm a child of the TV show, so I did watch that until my sister gave me the book series when I was about 9, and then that was it for me, they were my comfort books growing up. says Hume.
The new museum features a video room, and a wide variety of artifacts are on display.
Visitors can see Wilder's original hand written manuscripts, her type-writer and desk, and Pa's fiddle (the beloved musical instrument so familiar to readers of the books.)
Hume says she's impressed by the quality of the museum's design, I love how it's organized by the book, by each book as she's written it. The displays are really well done, it's pretty exciting to look around and see this.
Of course there's also a book store, where new generations can discover the tales of adventure on the prairie which have captivated so many readers.
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Where the West Begins (Part One)
Pamela Smith Hill explores the Ingalls’ lives in Dakota Territory, which became the basis for Wilder’s later 'Little House' books.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder and Her Literary Legacy
Pamela Smith Hill discusses her personal connection with Laura Ingalls Wilder and Wilder's establishment as a literary figure.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Biography
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in Wisconsin in 1867. During her long life, she lived in Kansas, Minnesota, South Dakota, Florida, and Missouri. In her 60s, Laura began to entertain and educate millions of readers through her Little House series of books.
Wisconsin Farm & Pepin, birthplace of Laura Ingalls Wilder
visiting a farm breakfast and Pepin, WI
The Real Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder's childhood homesite in Indian Territory -- Wayside, Kansas, near Independence. This is the site of her book Little House on the Prairie. This video is part of the Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frontier Girl collection located at
De Smet South Dakota
In this episode of Cheap Family Travel ( Nick Regan, Maggie, and Kate visited the small town of De Smet, home to the famous author, Laura Ingalls Wilder. De Smet, South Dakota, is a fun, family-oriented town that gives visitors the opportunity to step back in time, as the town still looks how it did a generation ago, when Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family lived in The Little Town on the Prairie, on On the Shores of Silver Lake, and during, The Long Winter. Fans of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books will enjoy a tour of the town that includes the DeSmet School, the Surveyor's House, the house the Pa built for the Ingalls family, and the cemetery where most of the Ingalls are buried. A must-see in De Smet is the Ingalls Homestead, where guests can walk through a replica sod house and shanty, a barn, a schoolhouse, and can participate in time-period activities like pumping water, washing clothes, making ropes and corn dolls, and playing button buzzers, the string game that Laura and her friends played. After a ride in a horse drawn wagon, visitors attend a Pageant with local actors depicting Laura's time in De Smet. Cheap Family Travel had a great visit in De Smet. If you are a fan of Laura's books or the TV series, De Smet is the place for you.
Jasper County Historical Museum
Join us on a tour of Jasper County Historical Museum.
Malanaphy Springs-Winneshiek County Iowa
On my previous visit to the Decorah, Iowa area, I was at Twin Springs when a gentleman told me about Malanaphy Springs and it's location. The following weekend I headed down to capture it. After finding the parking area, I headed out in the wrong direction. After spending a little bit of time looking around for a trail, I realized what happened to my internal compass and headed in the right direction. The spider webs crossing the path were terrible making me open my umbrella as a shield the whole time to clear the path. It's bit of a walk but the trail is well packed and easy to travel. There are two waterfall stages to the spring, the upper section is where the water seeps out of the rock wall and travels down rock cascades and through the woods, this is the first half of the video. The second stage is the drop down the embankment splitting into dual waterfalls that flow into the Iowa River.
Music by Dexter Britain
Song: Entrapment (partial, tempo increased)
First School in De Smet, South Dakota
The first school opened in De Smet, South Dakota, in 1880. Learn more about the school and the first teacher in our video visit.
Laura Days in Pepin, WI 2013 Sept. 13-15, 2013 Day 1
Day 1 of my trip to Laura Ingalls Wilder Days aka Laura Days in Pepin, Wisconsin. Along the way I stop at Decorah, Iowa for lunch, What's New Antique Shop and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Park and Museum in Burr Oak, Iowa.
Walnut Grove Pioneer Village
Walnut Grove Pioneer Village Tourist Attraction. Located At Scott County Park, Long Grove, Iowa. USA.