Standing on the Ingalls Homestead is deeply affecting. More than 100 years after the events in Little Town on the Prairie, set in De Smet, it is still easy to envision Laura and her sister Mary ...

And this wasn’t just any stretch of windswept prairie: this was the Ingalls Homestead, part of the actual 160-acre homestead claim farmed by Laura’s father, Charles Ingalls, from 1880 to 1888.

Next door, the Ingalls Homestead features hands-on activities for children and recreated buildings that bring 1870s Dakota Territory back to life.

A prime example is the Ingalls Homestead in De Smet, the setting for much of the "Little House on the Prairie" book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The series has been translated into dozens of ...

You can visit the Ingalls Homestead, a living history farm where children can experience a slice of 1880s life. Activities include twisting hay, lessons in a one-room schoolhouse and even driving ...

'Little House on the Prairie' fans are sure to recognize—and love!—these stops along Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Highway (aka Route 14) starting in South Dakota and ending in Iowa.

“The ‘Bonnetheads’ are on their way,” Manley says. De Smet's Prairie Homecoming weekend will be July 11-13 and include covered wagon rides at the Ingalls Homestead with purchase of a ticket.

The clerk of the Homestead office certified that Sheldon was a “person of respectability” and fit to serve as a witness. Having claimed his land, Wilder married Laura in 1885.

People want to know about it,” said Ann Lesch, the operations manager for the Ingalls Homestead in DeSmet. The homestead did offer a bus tour to the lake and slough on a primitive road for ...