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Calumet Avenue, De Smet, South Dakota, around 1900.
The wooden bridge across the Platte River, Schuyler, Nebraska, as it looked when we crossed it. R.L.W.
Marysville, Kansas. This is a ‘German Day’ parade, which may have taken place in the year we were there. R.L.W.
Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas, as it looked when we passed through. R.W.L.
The main street of Fort Scott, Kansas, as it looked in the late 1880’s. R.L.W.
Mansfield, Missouri, as it looked about 1894. This picture was probably taken on Memorial Day or on the Fourth of July.
Two views of the lap desk that held the $100 bil.
Rocky Ridge Farm in Mansfield after Almanzo had cleared a good deal of the land. Laura probably took this photograph about 1910. R.W.L.
The cabin we lived in during the first winter in Mansfield. It was part of the barn when this picture was taken. The horses are the team which brought us down from Dakota. My father is sitting in a buggy for which he traded the hack, when we were rich enough to have a wagon and a buggy. R.W.L.
This photo of Laura was taken in the ravine just below the spring.
A neighbor’s cabin. My father is pictured by it in his ‘buffalo coat’, which was made from the skin of a buffalo killed in Dakota.
Part of Rocky Ridge Farm as it looks today.
When I was a little girl in the Ozarks, I had a donkey whose name was Spookendyke. R.W.L.
Laura’s dream realized: the house that she and Almanzo built of materials from the farm. The wellhouse is outside the kitchen door. The home is now preserved as a memorial museum by the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association of Mansfield, Missouri. R.W.L.
