Following the Trail of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Houses
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2013
- On the 2nd weekend of July 2013, we followed the trail of Laura Ingalls, by visiting her birth place, The Little House in the Big Woods, at Pepin WI. Then we headed west to Walnut Grove MN, and the Dugout House on Plum Creek. Finally on to De Smet SD to the Little House on the Prairie, and the 160 acre homestead. We saw some American History, and had a nice camping experience.
This video is a very short, compared to the weekend, summary of where we went and what we saw.
In March of 2014 we visited Mansfield MO to see Rocky Ridge Farm, that video may be viewed at: • Visiting Laura Ingalls...
I was probably in second or third grade when i found laura Ingalls Wilder books. I had a big imagination so i could imgine myself back there with laura. Her books were fascinating so i couldn't put them down. She was so full of spirit and curiosity just like me. I also had wandering feet. I've read all her books. I am a senior now and always wanted to visit the museum. I don't think I'll make it now but I'll meet up with her in heaven one day . Along with pa !
So wonderful to see so many people interested in Laura's history. Heartwarming.
Fascinating! I never cared for the stories until my ex wife made me watch them on DVD, many years later. She even suggested this tour. I would still do it, even with her!
I went on my Little House vacation 4 years ago when I was 53. I have always been a real fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder and I can tell you it was the best vacation ever. We left from NY and the vacation took 3 weeks. I visited all of Laura's homesteads. I just loved it. Des met and Missouri were awesome. Saw everything from her birthplace to her grave. If you are a fan I highly recommend the trip. The next year we went to upstate NY to visit the Wilder farm in Malone. Also highly recommended .
Hello from grecce!🙂 i want to visit this place maybe next year! I want to ask someone who lives in new york to tell me where is the nearest place to stay to visit the musem?? ( i dont speak english sorry 💙🇬🇷
I wish I could , cannot afford to travel, would give anything to be able to walk in Laura's shoes, have always been a huge fan!
Love from Greece, I grew up with little house in the prairie, it was my favorite and i have to admit it still is. My children grew up with this to. I am 53 years old and I still love it
I grew up with little house on the prairie and still is my favorite show the best show on tv in my opinion thank you for posting this very interesting and its a blessing to see for those of us who cant afford to travel to these places ourselves
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU LHOTP IS my FAVORITE show. I TOTALLY AGREE (the ONLY OTHER show I like is Law & Order.
This was our first time at these sites, so I can not comment on changes over time, but it was a fun trip for us. Thanks for watching.
I am crying w/ tears of joy; because....Laura lived it + wrote about it & its my favorite book series ( + I adore all things Laura ) & have always wanted to make the same trips to all locations you were at....because You filmed this & shared you have made my mothers Day...BTW I'm disabled & could not make the trip now ( & it was my life's dream to go); so because you took the time out of your life to film & share...you have made my dreams come true & gave a little bit of Laura back to all of us who loved her...& the same generosity you have shown IS the message I get back from Laura's life~Blessings to you & yours~... Words can't do justice to having ones own dream come true, due to the actions of a stranger~ THANK YOU~
Ruth Smith Ruth - your comment on my video blows me away. When we, my wife and I, took this trip, I knew virtually nothing about Laura, I'm just a guy taking videos of our travels. My thoughts were to share this with members of my family to show them where we went. I am thrilled that you, and others, have lived vicariously thru my videos. Thank you so very much for your kind comments.
I can make you a sunbonnet to wear on pioneer day. Your not too disabled for that now are you??? Got a p.o. box?
It is nice to see the different places that Laura Ingalls has lived at and traveled to.
I'm 59 and watched as the TV series unfolded. Have and will always be a little house fan🌹
I've watched Little House on the prairie with my mother growing up It was truly the only time it was really bonded. I wish I was on that trip with you guys with my mother because it would have been a dream come true. Thank you so much for sharing this with all of us. The fans and love of Laura and Almanzo
I only read the books but loved them!
Plum Creek and the Prairie is quite like I imagined.
Thanks for this... It's nice to see other people as passionate as I about her
I drove 1,000 miles round trip just to see Pepin Wisconsin and the location of the Ingall’s Family “little house in the big woods.”
I cried as I sat under a shade tree and contemplated the love that was shared by the Ingall’s Family. The heartfelt stories I recalled from the books written by Laura Ingall’s. Then my mind went to the hardships endured living in a time before modern medicine, before electricity, the automobile, and so much more. A simpler time when ma’s and pa’s and their children went to church on Sundays, when families gathered at the table for supper, when hunting and fishing didn’t require a license and both were done not for sport but instead to feed your family.
T. Lane, as you were crying your eyes out, did you think about the natives that were killed so the Ingall’s family could live here?
I loved watching this show growing up; and the re-runs were always welcome. Thank you Laura Ingalls Wilder for sharing you're life with us., I'm very grateful🙏💖💖,,, and we love you.
This has been my dream for a long time to do this, so thank you very much for sharing your experience with us! I've only ever been to the Mansfield Missouri homestead, which is the last place that Laura and Almanzo lived at. It's well worth seeing if you ever get to do it!
The pictures of the sod house/dugout location are fascinating. I can picture the isolation they would feel - the dirt and dark. And the fear of a horse's hoof going through the roof!
My 20 year old daughter and i have made a pact we would go to walnut grove and some other places like you have done.. this was probably the most justice you could have done all of us that love the ingalls and wilder families.. thank you so much for sharing this.. ~debbie crowe
Debbie, Thank you so much for your kind comments. We are tentatively planning to go to Laura's Independence KS and Mansfield MO locations this coming summer, sure hope it works out.
i hope so too, we will look forward to your video.. i think i read that she and almonzo ended up settling in florida.. be it my luck i find that out after i leave home of 30 years (florida) and move to utah..lol will look forward to your video if this comes to fruition.. take care.. and thanks again.
deborah crowe Actually, Laura, Alamanzo, and Rose only spent a brief time in Florida before returning to DeSmet, From there, they moved to Mansfield, MO.
sadly we spent our entires lives in florida and i had no idea they lived there.. i would have went looking for their home there too if its still there. :0)
I really love history and I would love to go to Laura's houses and visit Walnut Grove
I was always fascinated that they knew exactly where that dugout was. This is really neat. If I got to go there I'd have to go wading in Plum Creek.
Yeah but be careful of those consarned bloodsuckers!
Oh shoot this video just came up on my feed and I just realized your comment was made quite some time ago. So, I certainly hope your dream was realized and that you got to go there!
My 9 year old daughter is doing a report on Laura Ingalls Wilder and we just watched your videos from your different trips to the museums, and have enjoyed them very much. Thank you for the time you put into these movies. We appreciate them.
+Jess Hanner Hope she gets A+ on her report. Thanks for watchin'
hey that's cool I'm 9 and I'm doing a report on Laura to!
ghouly 83 so ghouly, please excuse this very old curmudgeon for taking this chance to offer a 9 yr old a very small bit of constructive criticism. I am also and old "grammar" fanatic, you should have said "Laura too" not "Laura to", I hope as you continue through school, that you learn a great deal about US history, the times that Laura lived through, and that your teachers stress correct word usage to you. Thank you for looking at my video, and for taking the time to comment.
+curmudgeon66 um sorry to be rood big Sur but some of that I did not understand um. it your welcome and um by😃
Funny how a grammar fanatic did not notice the grammatical error in that very sentence! Not cool.
How lovely I need to go and see how and where Laura Ingals and her family lived. Just reading all of her writings have been making it more real life.
My mom read these books to me at bed-time back in the 1970's. LOVED this series-- and actually would enjoy reading them again!
Thank you so much for this... I've always adored the little house stories always wanted Charles Ingalls to be my dad :) or husband either would do, he seemed like such a lovely man... This is somewhere I will never get to visit in my lifetime so I really cant thank you enough for posting it xx
I was in DeSmet with my daughter summer of 2017. Fun to revisit through your vid! The books are awesome - should be required reading for American kids.
I started reading this series in 4th grade and spent many wonderful hours right along side of Laura. Thank you for helping me complete one on my bucket list! 😊❤️
I grew up watching little house on the prairie and loved it , I just finished watching the series again with my husband and just recently bought the books , visiting all of these locations is on my bucket list for sure, something about Laura ingall Wilders life just has me captivated.
How wonderful to be able to see the places i’ve Read about so many many times since I was a child. I absolutely LOVE the Laura Ingalls Wilder books and would love to visit all of these places one day. Brilliant!
I am 48 and grew up watching this show and reading her books and past all that on to my 2 girls who loved it through there childhood as well. Even tho my girls are now 18 and 23 we all still love watching the episodes together! This video you have made was so great and lots to see! I have always wanted to travel to see all the places she’s lived but never could.... so thank you!!
My goodness! Almost like being there myself. Thank you so much for letting us ride along in your back seat. We appreciate your commentaries and explanations of what we are seeing. You are a great travel guide!
This is nothing like being there yourself! This video was awesome to watch, but I've been to the Ingalls Homestead several times (granted I work there) and it is so much more fun to be there in person! Also this video missed some of the most fun parts of the Ingalls Homestead because he didn't film the classroom setting, the Flindt's Garage, or the Church!
This video was so different than the other videos of the Ingalls Homestead, because it is newer and I know ALL the workers in this video! So great to see! I might have been in it too, if he would've filmed the rest of the places to see and things to do there!
Great video, though, akes me excited for summer so I can go back to work there!!
I also hope to someday visit the other LIW home sites!
babylover0990 You are correct that I did not video EVERYTHING, there is a limit to the time that one can put into a YT video, and one must do selective editing.
We spent a few hours at the Homestead in DeSmet.
We spent a few hours in Walnut Grove, both at the museum and at Plum Creek.
We spent a few hours in the Pepin area both the museum and the cabin site.
I could have done three separate videos but chose to do one to give a high level perspective of our trip. I never intended this to be so detailed that it covered every aspect of each site in every detail. Our trip to these sites took 4 days, my video is about 30 minutes, it is a SUMMARY of what I considered the HIGH POINTS of the trip.
I have no idea who you are, nor if you were even there at the time that I took the video, I never intended to show ALL of the people who work at these sites.
Of course it is better to visit the places yourself, I agree, but for those who can't visit, or for those who are planning a visit, I hope that this gives some idea of what is to be seen. We highly recommend that others, who can, take a trip to as many of the LIW sites as they can.
curmudgeon66 I didn't mean that you should have or needed to put more on it. I was just stating facts for those who watch it, so they know that although it looks like a lot to do at the Homestead, there is even MORE!!
And I didn't mean that I wanted to be in your video (in fact I prefer not to be in it, I don't like the idea of being on youtube) but that I might have been working that day, and if you would have included video from the other places on the Ingalls Homestead, that I might have been in it. There are only a few days that I can remember when all those people worked in the area that they worked and I was also working.
I think this is a really great video!! It is a great summery of the trip, and since you're an adult, your high points are going to be different than those of a kid's and even those of other adults.
Please, don't get me wrong, I really LIKED the video!! There is nothing wrong with it! I was just adding details and commenting that simply watching the video is nothing like actually being there, because the video may be Extremely awesome and fun, but being there yourself is EVEN BETTER!!
She isn't the only one who played on the show so I don't know why they named a
Museum after her.They should of named
It Laura Elizabeth Wilder museum
Ingalls was her maiden name.
I grew up not far from Walnut Grove , Minnesota.. it truly shows you her true life…from the tv show. In real life the railroad came through Walnut Grove in the 1870’s from Winona, MN , Rochester, Owatonna, Mankato, Walnut Grove , Sleepy Eye on on to the Black Hills and Deadwood. I love our prairie and just beautiful.
My favorite childhood series is Little House on the prairie 😭😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I can't believe that you found all these places I wish that I could go there.you are really good at finding those places where Laura lives
Thankyou so much for making/posting this video!
I'm Extremely infatuated with the Laura Ingalls Wilder stories! I'm hoping that I can visit all of these places someday!! Until then, I'll just have to continue watching videos of other ppl visiting.
Thank you o much for this, you have no idea how happy I am finding this treasure of a video.
I am watching this in January 2021. Your video is timeless.
Great video ..... one of my favourite author ..... her books always transported me to her times ......
OOOO! I just purchased the annotated copy of Laura's "Pioneer Girl" today--It was released in November 2014
Thank u for uploading this! I’m a fan of Laura Ingals Wilder. I’m Mary Ann from Philippines
This was so totally awesome! I always wanted to see these sites and you did a beautiful job! Thank you such much!
Thanks for watching, and for you comment. We had a great time following Laura's trail.
I am a blind fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder biography from Bangladesh 🥰💕🇧🇩
Thank you so much for these videos! I live on the east coast of Canada, this would be a dream tour for me!
What a treat for me! I probably won’t ever get the chance to visit in person. Thank you very much!
I lived in Pepin Wisconsin for many years. We have had picnics at the replica cabin both inside it and in the shelter. My nephews grew up just a little ways from the cabin. If you keep going past the cabin there's a round barn on the right. They lived across the road. I'm glad there are people who keep the museum and cabin going
I'm so appreciate that you show me these video,so thank you very much sir and I have ever read these classic series many times in a couple year ago and I love it.
I'm from Sri Lanka and apriciate her historical anthology greatly
Thanks for watching and commenting.
I really enjoyed this video and your easy-going detail. Thank you.
You are quite welcome, and thank you for watching and taking the time to comment.
Laura Ingalls' dugout house is an amazing one. thank you to share the video of the trails...
I think because it's largely unchanged. Even the same creek to play in. 😊
Thank you,I enjoyed this. Cuddles from Canada 🇬🇧🇨🇦🌺🌸🌺
This is so nice of you, theres not just me but others too, who cannot make it to sight-see this place,.Can't even afford to get out shopping in my own town,.Probably y I like those days and wishing at times it would b back in the days,.Don't even have fresh water anymore, its scary what comes out of my taps,.I love horses and wish I had a horse to ride,.I really thank-you for this video,.
Laura & Almonzo lived in Florida for a short time as well as Washington State for a time. Her actual writing desk that she wrote all of her little house books on, etc. is still inside her Rocky Ridge Farm house in Mansfield, Missouri.
Thanks so much for this video. I practically know all of Laura's books by heart, I have read them so many times. I would love to follow the trail as you did but probably will never get the opportunity, so thank you for the virtual tour!! Laura described that all of her houses growing up were small, but to see the actual size was quite a shock. Great job!!
VERY well done!! Not sure how I came across this video, but I landed on it and watched it. Never watched much of the TV show but I read all the books for Lit class in college. This brought my memories of the books alive. Have to admit, those books were a fascinating read, even for a guy. Good job and thanks for posting. - Brian
You're welcome. I haven't read any of the books, the trip was one of my wife's dreams, and if she is happy then I am happy.
I love this tape! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much for making this lovely and great video. It is amazing i can sit here in Denmark and see this. I love it. THANK YOU .
This is a great video - thank you so much for sharing !! From Germany with love - God bless you !! 🍃
Thank you so much I grew up watching Little House and would love to see all this in person but know I never will. Thanks again
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Never say never. You will some day!
My favorite books series also. I was so happy to discover them at the library. I was about 11.
Thankyou so much for doing this it is amazing, I love the books and the show and i really wanted to see the places and have never been able to find a tour like this and i dont have much chance of seeing them myself anytime soon - I'm only 14 and in the uk- and so this is absolutely great!
I have really enjoyed this - I love the slow pace of filming and btw, you have a lovely speaking voice too. I could listen to you for hours. Thanks for taking the time to do this. I'm in the UK but hope one day to travel to the US and this would be on my list of places to see.
Pashasmum, I hope you are able to make the trip one of these fine days to see these places. Since you are from the UK, I must remind you that these are not places near major population centers of the US, they are in what we sometimes call "fly over country". They are very worth your time and effort, but you will have to plan to go by car, as there is no public transport to any of these sites, and it is a long drive. One of the things we learned on our trip was that by following, in general, the route used by the Ingalls family we got a better sense of what their travels must have been like.
What a fun video. Thanks for sharing with us. I suspect the Ingalls and especially Charles would have loved to see what became of his homesteads and the towns he settled in.
thanks so much for taking the time to make and post this!
Love this and your voice sounds so familiar. I believe (or it seems to me) I was out at Laura's home at Mansfield the same time you were. I remember standing and talking to a man that sounds so much like you. It's been a few years back! lol. dunno. anyway, thanks so much. love this video
Wow thanks for posting. I loved that show and our girls do also. I could spend hours in those museums . We are watching the six seasons of Little house right now. So interesting. I will never be able to afford to go see that stuff.
I did not realize there was a museum in Pepin, I will have to take my kids to it in the spring. Thank you for the very well done video.
Very nicely documented video and so interesting! Thank you!
That was so fascinating! I tried to be there in their time while watching this. I have a great interest in Laura and her family.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I know it was several years ago that you posted this but I am really enjoying it. I will watch the Rocky Ridge farm one next. We were in Mansfield in Nov. and visited the museum, farm and rock house. They wouldn't let anyone take pictures or videos. :(
Sir, Thank you so much for taking the time out make this video and posting on you tube for Little house fans to see! I appreciate it! Happy holidays and hope you have a very Merry Christmas at plum creek! : )
2013!!
Thank you from someone who will never be able to see it otherwise! Loved it.
Thank you so much for posting this video. I live in another country so would never have gotten to see this in real life. You made it like seem as if I was right there.
I saw a quote from this lovely woman in my book and i just had to do some research! So glad I came across this video!!
I really enjoyed this. Thanks for posting it : )
I just stumbled upon your Laura Ingalls Wilder videos. I would love to visit some of the places you visited and recorded on your videos. Many times when I come home from work, I like to alternate between watching "Little House on the Prairie" or "The Waltons" during dinner time. I find watching both of those shows to be relaxing, peaceful, while feeding my heart, soul, spirit, and mind with good & enlightening lessons to learn. I just watched an episode of "Little House on the Prairie" tonight during dinner time. It was titled, 'Gold Country, part 2" about people panning for gold in South Dakota and how some people let dollar signs and greed get to their heads and they end up doing selfish and bad things because they focused their minds on striking it rich, etc.
I really enjoyed your video. I felt like I was traveling with you. I haven't been on vacation in a very long time. So, I'm thankful & appreciative of CZcamsrs such as you who show and share your travels with us. There are many people who haven't found the time to explore the great places that the U.S. has to offer. Videos like yours help us learn more and help us decide where we would like to visit in the future. Thank you for taking the time to share these videos with us. Keep up the good work. I wish you a good week, & a great Fourth of July holiday! :-)
VelvetGal5 Thanks for your kind comments.
VelvetGal5 you must be my long lost sister!!!!! I do the same thing alternating between Little House and Waltons! :)
Sounds great! I also love watching little house on the prairie and the waltons 😀
on what sites do you watch 'little house on the prairie'? or 'the waltons'
I do the exact same thing. Alternate Little House and the Walton's.
Thank you for visiting, taping & posting this. :)
Thank you for shering this! Love the books and tv serie. Grettings from Chile : )
This definitely a to do on my bucket list. I find history very interesting. I am from Canada
Thanks so much for sharing your trip with us. :) I loved it.
just love the series little house by Michael landon this stepping back in time is truly heartwarming laura was a wonderful woman as the entire family was :)
Thank you for doing this!!! This may be as close as I get to going.... God bless you
Great job at video taping this wonderful place that u visited, i really enjoyed it! thks again.
love your video. Her series of books were the first ones I read as a child. I felt so proud after I read all of them. I learned so much about how to be a good son, then husband, and now father, because of what I learned about life from her stories about her family.
thank you for this video and for the close ups. I almost felt I was really there.
I am a huge little house on the prairie fan
The cabin near Pippin COULD have been that big. Pa would have had help to build it, from family. If you ever get to Mansfield, Missouri, don't even BOTHER to take your camera.... you can't even take photographs.... we enjoyed it very much, but found the ladies that ran it to be rather crabby and not overly friendly.
LadyDragonsblood I agree, they had family members nearby. There’s no reason to assume he built the house alone. I’m not sure that would be possible for one man.
I would think they'd let you take pictures or something? After all didn't everybody have to pay a big fee just to see any of those places?? I'd say it would be a rip off.. my opinion :)
@@shelleylindquist9452 They claim the flash of cameras harms the artifacts.
@@redned1799 I watched another video that somebody did about the travels of the Ingalls family.. They had siblings that also moved to the area and they helped each other build houses
Everyone that goes there says the ladies are very snobby and not very gracious to visitors. That is a shame! People go because they love the Ingalls family story. If you hate what you do, or think that you personally own the story....quit doing what your doing. People are curious and have questions if you can't be bothered quit your job! This should be a happy place where they bend over backwards to answer questions and be accommodating. Pa wouldn't have liked their attitude. Nothing like 2 Mrs. Olson's running the place, lol!
Im so glad I found your lovely videos! Ive only gotten to see Lauras house in Mansfield, but Ive always wanted to see all of the other homesteads. I used to cry when I was younger because I wanted to go so badly, and I have tears in my eyes now at 44 years old. I still read her books to this day. Thank you so much!
Glad you liked my videos, we had a very good time visiting all of these sites, and it is quite nice to be able to share what we saw.
Her name on the show was Laura
Elizabeth Wilder not Laura Ingalls
Wilder.I read Beverly Lewis books
I love her very much!
First time watching. Loved little house on the prairie.
I am THRILLED that I just happened to stumble across this video!! I just spent the last half an hour living vicariously through your trip-you can't imagine how happy this has made me!! I absolutely adored all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books when I was growing up, and have read them over and over. I didn't really her House in the Big Woods is only about 5 hours from my home. It is incredibly difficult for me to travel, due to a spinal injury 10 years ago and 4 subsequent failed spinal surgeries. But if I take it slow-and can convince my children(who are in their early teens and not interested in much of anything besides video games), maybe we could make it to the home in Pepin, WI. I always loved that part of her books the best.
Geny, Thank you for your kind comments on my video. I'm glad that you enjoyed it. That was my hope all along, that others who could not make the trip would at least get some sense of what the places look like. I fully realize that the buildings are not the original, but the places are, and buildings are a fair representation.
They have Laura Ingalls Wilder days in September every year. This year the guy that played Almonzo was there signing autographs. This past summer they had events at the cabin once a month.
I love the little house on the prairie tv series. I was born a month after the first episode aired. I have watched the entire series is on DVD. That I checked out at my local library.
Thanks again! You did a great job. One day I hope I can make this tour.
Thanks in the name of all the people of Loved and Love the Iconic Serie and just cannot go to visit the museum.
Thank you for documenting this. I love LHOTP. God bless you.
nicely done video. thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Would like to now travel to Walnut Grove.
many thanks for this great impressions, nice pictures and a great camera work
dear greetings from Germany :-)
I have always loved this type of stuff and big fan of the prairie too
I've always wanted to see these Laura Ingalls Wilder sites. Thank you for filming this for us. I'm glad I saw these things and I'm especially glad I didn't make the trip you did to see them. Too Little, too scattered.
Dude,, You are miss one site,, There is a Small Parcel of Land just along Hwy 71 South out of Windom Minnesota a couple of Miles that Charles Homesteaded before ending up in Walnut Grove Minnesota,, Most People do not know of its existence. It has been turned back into original Prairie Grasses with a sign Posting of ownership of Charles.
And a lot of people forget they lived in Burr Oak, Iowa for a while. It is where little brother Freddie is buried.
LadyDragonsblood
Thank you for the Info.. Didn't know that,,,Great to Know
@@LadyDragonsblood, www.findagrave.com/memorial/8145549/charles-frederic-ingalls
Thank you for a wonderful video!
My mom went to the Walnut grove one with her mom back in '83 when she was 10, she said At the play Mrs Olson (Katherine McGregor) was a few rows behind her, it was a 2 day show but the 2nd day was canceled because there was a tornado warning in the town of Tracy.
Thank you for sharing this! 👍🏻😊☀️