Little Town on the Prairie
Little Town on the Prairie is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1941, the seventh of nine books in her Little House series. It is set in De Smet, South Dakota. It opens in the spring after the Long Winter and ends as Laura becomes a school teacher so she can help her sister, Mary, stay at a school for the blind in Vinton, Iowa. It tells the story of 15-year-old Laura's first paid job outside of home and her last term of schooling. At the end of the novel, she receives a teacher's certificate and is employed to teach at the Brewster settlement, 12 miles (19 km) away.
Front dust jacket with Sewell's illustration
The Surveyors House is a Laura Ingalls Wilder historic site in De Smet, South Dakota
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American writer. The Little House on the Prairie series of children's books, published between 1932 and 1943, were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, circa 1885
Caroline and Charles Ingalls
Surveyor's House, the first home in Dakota Territory of the Charles Ingalls family – De Smet, South Dakota
Rose Wilder Lane birthplace roadside marker – De Smet