Features
Simple Molasses Cookie Recipe
Ma was busy all day long, cooking good things for Christmas. One morning she boiled molasses and sugar together until they made a thick syrup, and Pa brought in two pans of clean, white snow from outdoors. Laura and Mary each had a pan, and Pa and Ma showed them how...
About Alison Arngrim
Mother says we’re not like the rest of the children. —Season 2, Episode 11, The Gift Alison Arngrim’s Early Years Alison Arngrim is a natural-born performer with a love for people and a gift for making them laugh. So, not surprisingly, she entered the entertainment...
Profile about Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Homes in De Smet, South Dakota
Today we are excited to bring you an in-depth look at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Homes in De Smet, South Dakota. This is part of our on-going series highlighting popular historic locations and sites related to Little House on the Prairie. If you are in the area...
Watch & Learn
DIY Maple Sugar Candy
Step back into Little House in the Big Woods with this simple DIY maple sugar candy recipe inspired by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Using store-bought maple syrup, learn how pioneers turned sap into sweet treats—no sled or yoke required
Let’s Get Reading
The Beautiful Snow
In The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, The Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880–81, author Cindy Wilson explores the real history behind The Long Winter, using thousands of newspaper accounts to bring the hardships, resilience, and survival of the Ingalls era vividly to life.
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Farm Journalist
In Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s essays for the Missouri Ruralist are collected and edited by Stephen Hines, offering a fascinating look at farm life, pioneer values, and her development as a writer before the Little House books.
Wilder Weather
In Wilder Weather: What Laura Ingalls Wilder Teaches Us About the Weather, Climate, and Protecting What We Cherish, meteorologist and Wilder scholar Barbara Boustead explores how Laura Ingalls Wilder’s detailed observations connect past and present weather, revealing insights on climate, safety, and the natural world.
Family Fun
Winter Snowflake Appliqué Pillow How-To
A recent issue of From Scratch Magazine featured some of our fabrics in a quilted snowflake winter pillow DIY. We wanted to share another variation for a winter pillow DIY with this simple four-patch background appliqué snowflake. Both projects feature the beautiful...
Old-Fashioned Homemade Peppermint Candy DIYs
Then they plunged their hands into the stockings again. And they pulled out two long, long, sticks of candy. It was peppermint candy, striped red and white. They looked and looked at the beautiful candy, and Laura licked her stick, just one lick. —Little House on the...
Sweet Potatoes and Pioneers
Johnny fussed in the bedroom, and Laura quickly pinned her braids, tied on her apron, and said, 'Let me fix the potatoes while you dress him. —These Happy Golden YearsWhen you think of Little House on the Prairie, you may think of the covered wagon journey, Jack the...
Little House History
Quotes From Laura Ingalls Wilder You Can Share
Laura Ingalls Wilder had such a vivid way of describing her everyday events that her writings have captured the imaginations of multiple generations. The universal themes of courage, hope and love in her books continue to inspire readers today. As author John E....
Laura’s Frontier Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs. —Little House in the Big WoodsScholars of myth, child psychology and literature as diverse as Joseph Campbell, Bruno Bettelheim and Marina Warner...
All Things TV
Episode Guide – Season 5
The adventures of the Ingalls family continue in Season 5 of "Little House on the Prairie". The original episodes of season 5 aired from September 11, 1978 to March 19, 1979. Due to economic problems, the Ingalls, Olesons and Garveys leave Walnut Grove and settle in...
About Kyle Richards
Alicia Sanderson Edwards: "You forgot?"Isaiah Edwards: "Never, never! What was supposed to remember?"Alicia Sanderson Edwards: "We were going to have lunch together. I made sandwiches." Season 6, Episode 8Kyle Richards' Early Life and Career Kyle Richards was born...
About Katherine MacGregor
Harriet Oleson: “Pride cometh before destruction; and a haughty spirit before a fall!” Proverbs 16:18 —Season 2, Episode 1 “The Richest Man in Walnut Grove”The Early Life of Katherine MacGregor Katherine “Scottie” MacGregor was born January 12, 1925, as Dorlee Deane...
Share With Us
Use #littlehousemoment to share with us the ways that you’ve been inspired by the Little House lifestyle.