![]() Some of the events and themes of town life from this period are included in the later Little House books set in De Smet, South Dakota. Much of this period is lost in the gap between On the Banks of Plum Creek and By the Shores of Silver Lake. ![]() These stories are presented in Pioneer Girl, but not in the Little House books. It was also during these years that Mary Ingalls got sick and became blind. Laura attended school and church in town and worked serving at a hotel. They returned and lived in the town of Walnut Grove from 1877 to 1879. When they finally lost the farm, the family moved to Burr Oak, Iowa for a year. These events are detailed in On the Banks of Plum Creek. Unfortunately, a locust infestation destroyed the family’s wheat crop, and while he was able to get work in Eastern Minnesota to support the family, Charles could not pay off the debts involved in buying the frame house. ![]() ![]() ![]() They initially lived in a dugout cabin next to Plum Creek, then Charles Ingalls built a wood frame house for the family in 1875. The Ingalls family lived on a farm about a mile and a half north of Walnut Grove from 1874 to 1876. On Wednesday, June 20, I visited Walnut Grove, Minnesota. ![]()
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