The Ingalls family’s first stop after Wisconsin was Independence, Kansas (with a possible stop in Missouri), where they built a “little house” on the open prairie. Real life and Manifest Destiny don’t always line up, though, and in fact the Ingalls family tracked back and forth several times before setting down in De Smet, South Dakota. THE INGALLS FAMILY DIDN'T ALWAYS HEAD WEST.įrom the moment the Ingalls family sets out in their wagon and leaves the Little House in the Big Woods, the Little House books show an unceasing push West. Where does history end and fiction begin? 1. After all, the books are based on real events-but events that are also largely fictitious. For the thousands of devoted fans of the Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder (who was born on February 7, 1867), that problem is particularly acute. There’s nothing weirder than learning that one of your favorite stories didn’t really happen that way.
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