Looking for some serene scenery for your next family road trip? Take a journey through the midwestern farms that inspired Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books in the the late 1800s ...
The Ingalls family in 1894, from left: Caroline, Carrie, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Charles, Grace and Mary. (Courtesy of South Dakota State Historical Society) As railroads extended into Dakota Territory ...