Laura Ingalls Wilder Homestead- De Smet, South Dakota

Since living in Red Lake, we have read the Little House on the Prairie series. Everyone got into it, but especially Eli and Kendall. So we decided to take the opportunity to visit the place where lots of the stories took place. It was really neat. Eli and Evan do chores (!), play a pump organ, make rope, drive a team of horses, sit in a one-room schoolhouse, ride a pony, see a dugout home and beg for toys from the gift shop.




Here they practice using their new ropes. It appears to me that Kendall is attempting to lasso his son rather than the calf.


Never fear- While Kendall shows off for the camera, his son sneaks up with a plan of his own!