Read more Visscher Barnes Probate Judge, VP of Temperance Society, and first director of De Smet school board. Read more
Read more Introspections of an Individualist Norma Lee Browning article about Rose Wilder Lane. Read more
Read more Great American Desert Varying area of North America, believed at times to be uninhabitable by civilized man. Read more
Read more Charles H. Tinkham Early undertaker and owner of the first furniture store in De Smet. Read more
Read more mother-of-pearl Hard, silvery, brilliant, internal layer of several kinds of shells, particularly oysters. Read more
Read more Western Reserve Land in Ohio, given to Connecticut upon agreement to give up claim to lands in Pennsylvania. Read more
Read more South Troy / Zumbro Falls during the Little House years Ingallses lived here with Uncle Peter. Read more
Read more Margaret Garland family / Cap Garland Family living behind the Ingallses in De Smet. Read more
Read more The Youth’s Companion Weekly instructional magazine for children, first published in 1827. Read more
Read more wintergreen Aromatic, creeping evergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, having bright red berries. Read more
Read more quarter section / quarter-section One-fourth of a square mile, consisting of 160 acres. Read more
Read more Stories of the Moorland 1869 book by Lizzie Bates about a young boy growing up in Scotland. Read more
Read more Reverend Stewart Sheldon American Home Missionary Society Superintendent 1874-1886. Read more
Read more Laura’s Bible references Laura Ingalls Wilder’s hand-written list of Bible verses to be read in times of trouble or stress. Read more
Read more bison / “The Bison Track” Bayard Taylor poem about Bos Americanus, found in Independent Fifth Reader. Read more
Read more Home Missionary Society Group organized to raise money to start churches and Sunday schools in the west where there were none. Read more
Read more Samuel O. Masters / William J. Masters families Walnut Grove, Burr Oak, and De Smet family known by the Ingallses. Read more
Read more Little House on the Prairie – historical perspective The Ingalls and Quiner families... Read more
Read more Volga, Dakota Territory Town on the Dakota Central R.R. between Brookings and Arlington, platted in 1879. Read more