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 ...

An iconic shot from Little House on the Prarie (above), whose famous author would now be 150 years old. NBC via Getty Images Famed “Little House on the Prairie” author Laura Ingalls Wilder is ...

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 ...

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 ...

DE SMET, S.D. – Hundreds of thousands of tourists every year frequent sites tied to South Dakota's pioneer and Wild West history, and cemeteries are among the historic sites that bring the past to ...

Beloved children’s author Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on Thursday, Feb. 7, 1867 in Pepin, Wis. She was the second daughter (Laura’s older sister, Mary Amelia Ingalls was born on January 10, 1865) of ...

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, ...

Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder and her husband, Almanzo Wilder, would have marked their 140th wedding anniversary on Monday, August 25. Laura and Almanzo began courting when ...