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Laura Ingalls Wilder at De Smet
1879
Kingsbury County, South Dakota
Ross Griff · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The Ingalls family homesteaded here and lived through the winter of 1880-81, when trains stopped for months and the town ground wheat in coffee mills to survive. Wilder began writing about it in her sixties, and the books shaped how generations pictured the frontier.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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