Little House on the Prairie: The Cast and Behind the Scenes
South Dakota Ten Years Later
“I realized I had seen and lived it all – all the successive phases of the frontier, first the frontiersman, then the pioneer, then the farmers and the towns,” she said. Ten years after getting a taste of Kansas, the family moved to De Smet, South Dakota and that is where Laura spent her childhood.
Before the move, Mary had caught a fever that made her go blind so Laura started to take on the extra responsibility of tending to her sister. Laura’s father made a claim on some land just outside the city and tried to make a living from it as much as they could during the ’80s.
