Little House on the Prairie
Posted by Dunkel Oneal in Uncategorized, tags: Homeowners, mortgages, other, real estate, UncategorizedWhen I was a kid there were a number of shows we watched religiously. Buck Rodgers, Airwolf, the A-Team, all of the usual boy stuff. Yet there was one other show that captured the hearts and minds of most of the nation. That show was Little House on the Prairie. Come to home loans for a great rate today.
Based very loosely on the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, as reflected in her books, the TV show ran on NBC from 1974-1984. The Ingalls were a pioneer family that lived in Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota and South Dakota in the 1800’s. The show chronicled some of the events in the life of Laura and her family. It should be called “Little Disaster on the Prairie” because each week something bad happened. Eventually, as the series ran on, and plot ideas ran thin, it got more and more absurd and repetitive. Still this show had us, and most of America, glued to the TV every day. It starred Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson and Karen Grassle. Later years would see a very young Shannon Doherty on the show as well. Come to FHA home loans for your new home today.
The show was primarily set in Walnut Grove, Minnesota although the actual Ingalls family moved around quite a bit. In fact, the books illustrate what life was like back then. They sold their cabin in Wisconsin and moved near Independence, Kansas, as the rumors said it would be open to homesteaders soon. While in Independence, they meet the kind and lovable Mr. Edwards, a person anyone who watched the show would remember as well. He helps them build their house and dig a well. During that year the came down with what was later identified as Malaria but were able to survive. After the farm was planted the found out the land was not open for homesteaders and they were forced to move, this time to the famed Walnut Grove.
Laura’s father, always called Pa Ingalls, had hoped the new home would be “a land of milk and honey,” but after a plagues of locust destroyed their crops two years in a row he decided they should move again. It is an interesting study of the old West to see how often they moved around and were willing to rebuild everything. They spent a brief time in Iowa and then back to Walnut Grove. When their father decided DeSmet, South Dakota held more promise for them their mother had enough of the moves and made him promise not to move anymore. He was true to his word and the settled in DeSmet once and for all.
Laura Ingalls married Almanzo Wilder and became Laura Ingalls Wilder. They themselves finally settled in Mansfield, Missouri and it was there that she wrote her books. The town was her final home and every year the whole town celebrates he writings with a festival, parade and selling handmade crafts.
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