Little House Country: A Photo Guide to the Home Sites of Laura Ingalls Wilder (First printing, 1989; updated and reprinted June 2000, fourth printing), with text by William Anderson, color photography by Leslie A. Kelly. More than 100 color and 15 historic photos and paintings tell the story of the Ingallses travels and show their home sites about which Laura wrote her famous books. "The Wilder Trail" begins at Pepin, Wisconsin (Little House in the Big Woods), treks south to Independence, Kansas (Little House on the Prairie), heads north to Walnut Grove, Minnesota (On the Banks of Plum Creek) and further west to De Smet, South Dakota (Little Town on the Prairie). Other restored sites include the Masters Hotel at Burr Oak, Iowa, where the Ingallses lived in 1876 and the Almanzo Wilder Home (Farmer Boy).
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William Anderson, Author: Award-winning Historian and Laura Ingalls Wilder Scholar
William Anderson's lifelong interest in history was first stimulated in elementary school, when a third grade teacher read Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie to his class. He quickly read the rest of the Little House books and, realizing that they were true stories, began asking the question, "What happened next?"
"My mother tells me I was inquisitive, even as a pre-schooler," Anderson says. "I guess this is a good qualification for a researcher. My interest in the Wilder books led to family visits to the Little House sites, correspondence with relatives and friends of the Ingalls and Wilders, and finally, historical writing. My first published writing was The Story of the Ingalls, which appeared when I was fifteen."
Since then, William Anderson has written constantly, in numerous magazines and newspapers, and finally books. While a student at Michigan's Albion College, his summer job as a tour guide for the Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society in De Smet, South Dakota, included preservation work and research. He founded the newsletter "Laura Ingalls Wilder Lore," which he still edits. He is also a director of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association in Mansfield, Missouri.
In addition to making significant contributions to the literature about Laura Ingalls Wilder, Anderson is a high school teacher of American History and lives in Lapeer, Michigan. He uses his summers for extensive traveling, research, and literary projects and, throughout the year, speaks about Mrs. Wilder and her works and times on visits to schools and libraries and at writers' conferences and seminars.
Anderson's book credits include Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography, Laura Ingalls Wilder Country (HarperCollins, with Kelly, 1990), The Little House Guidebook (HarperCollins, with Kelly, 1996), Laura's Album: A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder HarperCollins), Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (HarperCollins),A Little House Reader: A Collection of Writings by Laura Ingalls Wilder (HarperCollins), A Little House Sampler: A Collection of Early Stories and Reminiscences (HarperCollins) and The World of the Trapp Family.
Leslie A. Kelly, "Little House Home Sites" Photographer
Leslie A. Kelly, a resident of Huntington Beach, California, is an internationally known photographer and writer. He has traveled the United States since 1973 photographing Americana. His travel stories and photography about the Amish, covered bridges, rural courthouses and other Americana have appeared in more than 120 magazines, books and calendars in the United States, Europe and Japan, to include Time Magazine, Literary Places In The US, National Geographic Guide To Small Town Escapes, Country, Farm and Ranch Living, Delta Airlines' SKY Magazine, Country America, Touring America and Trailer Life.
Working with William Anderson, Kelly has supplied color photography for Laura Ingalls Wilder Country (Harper Collins, 1990), Musical Memories of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1992), Little House Country: A Photo Guide to the Home Sites of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1989), Laura Ingalls Wilder Country Cookbook (Harper Collins, 1995) and Little House Guidebook (Harper Collins, 1996) and Little House on the Prairie Photo Guide (Japanese language version, 1988, Kyuryudo Art Publishing.
With Doyle Yoder, Kelly was co-author and co-photographer for America's Amish Country (1992) and America's Amish Country II (America's Amish Country Revisited) (2000). He has also authored and provided all current photography for two books for the California Gold Rush Sesquicentennial, California's Gold Rush Country 1848 - 1998 (1997) and Traveling California's Gold Rush Country (1997).
Kelly also operates a number of websites.
Kelly is a former member of the Board of Directors for the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association in Mansfield, a current member of the Oregon California Trails Association, and a current member and former Publicity Director for the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges.
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Little House in pictures,
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This review is from: Little House Country: A Photo Guide to the Home Sites of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Paperback)
I am disappointed. This book didn't (first) come out until WELL after I had read the entire series as a child! 8-) I would have loved to have had access to this book (and others like it) when I first read the Wilder books. I wanted to visit where Laura grew up but was unable to do so. With this photo guide you can, without having to make the physical trip. And now there is a new edition (which I haven't seen). Lucky, lucky new readers!
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If you are reading the Little House Series, this is a great resource. There are pictures and information about the areas that Laura lived. There are maps and quotes from the book and lots of interesting information. For all that is in it, the book is not very thick. It is mostly filled with pictures that allow you to 'go where Laura did' and 'see what Laura saw'. It is just a very neat book. Well worth the money. Enjoy.
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