After 64 years the American Library Association has decided to strip Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from a major children’s literature award. The decision comes following controversy about racist ...

DE SMET, S.D. (KELO) — You’ve probably read her books and watched the television show based on her family, but do you know the full story behind the life and legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder? Living in ...

De Smet takes a lot of pride in its connection to the Ingalls family. Tessa Flak, director of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society of De Smet, said the Kingsbury County town provided much-needed ...

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 ...

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 ...