This is currently on my desktop. It makes me very, very happy to look at this photo, taken at the Ingalls Homestead.
As a Laura Ingalls Wilder Researcher Thinks
my obsession with the original pioneer girl – rants, raves & random bits of laura ingalls wilder research, past and present
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Pioneer Girl: Fact and Fiction of Laura Ingalls Wilder, A-Z
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INDIAN TERRITORY
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THE YEAR IN BURR OAK
Burr Oak, Iowa
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INGALLS HOMESTEAD
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Keystone, South Dakota
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Spring Valley, Minnesota
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It is best to be honest and truthful, to make the most of what we have, to be happy with simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong.
LIW
Making the best of things - a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
RWL