Laura and Almanzo began courting when they were 16 and 23, respectively. After nearly three years, the couple tied the knot on Aug. 25, 1885, at the Reverend Edward Brown’s home in De Smet, South ...

Mother says there are some “country girls” coming to town. Look for the rag curls falling out of poke bonnets, the calico cotton dresses flouncing in the hot wind and perhaps a dust-covered wagon ...

De SMET, S.D. – A rural South Dakota county known mainly as the former home of beloved author Laura Ingalls Wilder is on the precipice of rapid growth as two record-setting agricultural processing ...

Laura Ingalls was born Feb. 7, 1867, in a log cabin in Pepin, Wis. The family's trip from Pepin to their ultimate destination in De Smet, S.D., would take less than seven hours today; for Laura and ...

It was a dark and stormy night. Make that very dark and very stormy. Bursts of lightning exploded in the sky. Thunder shook the very ground where our covered wagon stood. Yes, a covered wagon. Well, ...

The allure of South Dakota's pioneer and Wild West history attracts visitors from around the globe. Hundreds of thousands of visitors a year come to South Dakota to learn more about its pioneer and ...

Tracy Mumford Minnesota Public Radio News Aug 30, 2015 Aug 30, 2015 0 “My wandering foot gets to itching.” That’s Charles Ingalls — “Pa” to millions of readers — confessing his wanderlust in Laura ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder fictionalized her life in the Little House on the Prairie books, which were adapted into the hit 1974 TV series, but neither work tells Wilder’s real story Wilder’s real-life ...