Laura Ingalls Wilder - Homestead

Anyone who has read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, like Little House on the Prairie, will get special enjoyment out of visiting the places that Laura writes about. The Little Town on the Prairie took place in De Smet, South Dakota, and De Smet has preserved many of the sites where Laura and her family spent that period of their lives, including the De Smet School and the Ingalls Homestead. Visitors to the Homestead will see replicas of a sod house, a shanty, and the home Charles Ingalls built, and kids can make corn dolls, ropes, and "button buzzers," the string game that Laura made as a child. A covered wagon pulled by horses takes visitors on a tour of the Homestead and living historians describe what life was like during The Long Winter and On the Shores of Silver Lake. The kids loved all the baby animals and pony rides. You could really step back in time, doing laundry in a wash tub, attending a day of school, cooking on a wood stove. There is also a Visitors Center, campground and gift shop, where visitors can get souvenirs and the complete Little House on the Prairie DVD collection. http://www.cheapfamilytraveltips.com definitely ranks the Ingalls Homestead as a must see for anyone who wants to experience pioneer life in the 1880s.

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[babylover0990]

@cheapfamilytravel I'm not in this video, but I work in the Flindt's Garage (where you can twist hay, grind wheat, make a corncob doll, and make a jump rope)

[cheapfamilytravel]

@babylover0990 What a fun job. You are living history!

[babylover0990]

watching this makes me wish it was summer again so I can go back to work at the Ingalls Homestead :)

[cheapfamilytravel]

@babylover0990 The kids would love to work there. What did you do?

[Katrin153]

really cool =D

[babylover0990]

awesome video! Those kids sure were entusiastic about going there! I remember going there when I was little. fun times :)

[ingallshomestead]

Nick, Maggie, Regan and Kate thanks for visiting us at Ingalls Homestead. This is a great video and we are glad you had fun in De Smet! Hope you can visit again soon.