Around Kansas - Laura Ingalls Wilder Independence Kansas - August 16, 2017
Deb and Frank talk about the little house on the prairie site in Independence Kansas.
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
Around Kansas - Little House on the Prairie
We're going to take you to Prairie Days, to the Little House on the Prairie just outside of Independence, Kansas. We sure had a great visit with the folks there. Lots of interesting people. I know you're going to love seeing what they're doing at the Little House on the Prairie.
Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder's House - Kansas
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Mythic Beginnings: Tracking the Movement of the Real Ingalls Family
Pamela Smith Hill gives more biographical information on the Ingalls family, including a brief look at their lives in Kansas, their travels back to Wisconsin, and then to Plum Creek.
This video is part of Missouri State University's massive online collection. Want more Wilder? Sign up for our next course now, starting April 6, 2015:
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
Rag Dolls used under CC0-Public Domain (
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
The Real Little House on the Prairie Family
Did you know that the Little House on the Prairie TV show is based on a real family? This video showcases the Little House on the Prairie TV characters and the real-life Ingalls family that they were based on. Do you see any resemblances? Here's a little history, Laura Ingalls was born on February 7, 1867, to Charles and Caroline Ingalls. Like her older sister Mary Amelia, she spent the first years of her life on a farm in Pepin County, Wisconsin. Laura’s sister, Caroline Celestia (Carrie), was born on August 3, 1870 in Kansas and her sister, Grace Pearl in Iowa on May 23, 1877. As you can see, the family moved around extensively in the spirit of the pioneers.
10 Minute Tourist: Little House on the Prairie Sites, Independence and Mansfield
Here are two more sites from the Little House books: Independence, Kansas, where the book, Little House on the Prairie takes place, and Mansfield, Missouri, where the home of Laura Ingalls Wilder can be found (later in life when she wrote the books). Search under 10 Minute Tourist, Little House sites, to find the video of the other locations related to the books.
Filming location of Little House on the Prairie
Our California Vacation, we visited Simi Valley at the Big Sky Movie Ranch where Little House on the Prairie was filmed.
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.
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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me n Jeanette at the geographic center of the united states. no big deal.
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.
Interview with Jean Coday, Director of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum, Mansfield, MO
Pamela Smith Hill interviews Jean Coday, the director of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum Association in Mansfield, MO.
This video is part of Missouri State University's massive online collection. Want more Wilder? Sign up for our next course now, starting April 6, 2015:
dorothy's house museum in Kansas
Small museum of Dorothy's house in liberal Kansas, an exact replica , well not really.
Laura Days in Pepin, WI 2013 Sept. 13-15, 2013 Day 1, Part 2
The second part of my journey to Pepin, Wisconsin for their Laura Ingalls Wilder Days aka Laura Days. I arrive, check in, visit the Latane Tinsmith Shop, the marina, Sail Pepin and the Birthplace Cabin.
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!
Walnut Grove Then & Now
A whole new video montage with new then & now views from the Big Sky Movie Ranch where Little House On The Prairie was filmed
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Un tout nouveau montage vidéo avec de nouvelles images avant/après du Big Sky Movie Ranch où la série La petite maison dans la Prairie été tournée
De Smet, South Dakota -- Little Town on the Prairie
Welcome to De Smet, South Dakota! Watch this video if you're thinking of moving to De Smet or thinking of visiting there. There is a great deal to do and especially if you're a Laura Ingalls Wilder fan! It's a town on the prairie where there is a great deal going on.
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.
Visit gcv.org to find out more!
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