De Smet — General
Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Site In De Smet
Have you ever noticed you come back from a Laura trip full of stuff, ideas, and photos, but it takes you awhile to absorb it all or get around to finishing all those projects that popped in your head on site? Well, I finally got around to working with some of the raw footage I
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All of De Smet United In New Web Site Venture
De Smet’s attractions support one another in a joint web site promoting the town … precisely what every Laura fan would love to see.
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The Prairie is a Dangerous Place
What image comes to your mind when you hear the word prairie? I wonder if sometimes we have a tendency to romanticize our view, choosing to remember Laura’ s vivid descriptions of that large empty flat land with the enormous sky and beautiful lakes and extraordinary sunrises, instead of the truly dangerous place that the
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The Truth About Silver Lake
We really need to have a talk about Silver Lake. You see, just this week I’ve read comments concerning it on two different blogs of recent visitors to De Smet. One states that she is going to visit “Silver Lake (which, sadly, is no longer a lake)” and the other remarks, “Silver Lake is now a
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The Spirituality of Laura Ingalls Wilder
One of the questions I’ve often been asked by visitors to my website pertains to Laura’s religious beliefs. What did Laura believe about God and spirituality? While this question is impossible to answer in one respect, since Laura is no longer with us to ask, we get a pretty good idea of what Laura’s religious
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The Prairie House Manor
The story behind a wonderful place to stay during your visit to De Smet
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