Star Tribune

On the Laura Ingalls homestead in South Dakota, a modern family survives the night in a covered wagon

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, ...
PBS

What’s it like to attend “Laurapalooza,” the conference for Laura Ingalls Wilder superfans (“bonnetheads”)?

The first time I stepped onto Ingalls Homestead in De Smet, South Dakota, the same plot of land Charles Ingalls farmed in the 1880s, a single thought overwhelmed me: Laura was here. Immediately, I ...
Argus Leader

'Bonnetheads' unite: Laura Ingalls Wilder convention returns to South Dakota

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 ...
Star Tribune

On the Laura Ingalls homestead in South Dakota, a modern family survives the night in a covered wagon

The author’s granddaughters check into a covered wagon available for an overnight stay at the Ingalls Homestead in De Smet, S.D. (Lee Svitak Dean/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...