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Little House on the Prairie: The Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder (February 2015) is a one-hour documentary film that looks at the life of Wilder. Wilder's story as a writer, wife, and mother is explored through interviews with scholars and historians, archival photography, paintings by frontier artists, and dramatic re-enactments.
The Surveyors' House is a Laura Ingalls Wilder historic site in De Smet, South Dakota Today, De Smet, South Dakota , attracts many fans with its historic sites from the novels By the Shores of Silver Lake , The Long Winter , Little Town on the Prairie , These Happy Golden Years , and The First Four Years .
Ingalls House is a historic house museum at 210 3rd Street Southwest in De Smet, South Dakota.The 3rd street house was moved into on Christmas Eve 1887. Everyone but Laura Ingalls Wilder lived there; she married Almanzo in 1885 and therefore would have not been living with her parents anymore.
Laura and Almanzo Wilder, circa 1885. When Wilder was 23 years old and Ingalls was 15, the two began courting. Wilder would drive Ingalls back and forth between De Smet and a new settlement 12 miles (19 km) outside town, where she was teaching school and boarding. Then, when spring arrived, the couple would go for long buggy rides.
The Surveyors House is a Laura Ingalls Wilder historic site in De Smet, South Dakota Today, De Smet, South Dakota attracts many fans with its historic sites from the books By the Shores of Silver Lake , The Long Winter , Little Town on the Prairie , These Happy Golden Years , and The First Four Years .
A previously unpublished book from the author behind 'Little House on the Prairie' has hit the shelves, but don't be fooled, this one isn't for kids. Laura Ingalls Wilder's autobiography, 'Pioneer ...
Silver Lake and Big Slough were written about extensively by Laura Ingalls Wilder in her novel By the Shores of Silver Lake. Caroline Ingalls named the lake for the silvery appearance of its surface. [2] [3] The Ingalls home (currently, a museum) and Surveyor's House are very close to it.
The Wilder family occupied the property until about 1875. The property is operated by the Almanzo & Laura Ingalls Wilder Association as an interactive educational center, museum and working farm as in the time of Almanzo Wilder's childhood as depicted in the Laura Ingalls Wilder book Farmer Boy. [6]: 6–7 [7]