A Very Busy Malamute

[cyber-sibes]

What do you do tours of? Just curious...

[Bonny]

What do you do tours of? Just curious...

I work at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in a small town in northeast Iowa. Laura & her family lived in this town for a year, her folks worked in the hotel, & her sister Grace was born in this area. They back trailed to this area because grasshoppers had eaten their crops in Minnesota. It was very trying time for the Ingall's family, their son had passed away on the way here. I tell people about the Ingalls travels before they came to this town, what happened while they were here & after they leave. Guests are given a 45 minute tour of the old hotel along with stories of the Ingall's travels.

There is an unpublished autobiography that Laura had written for adults to read called Pioneer Girl that a lot of people don't know about. Our little town is mentioned in there. The autobiography should be fair game around 2018 & then can be legally published is what I have been told.