Laura Ingalls Wilder Sites - A Thread for lashbear

[DreadPirateRoberts]

It's the Masters Hotel and it's almost just as it was when the Ingalls lived and worked there. In fact, the entire town is still tiny and still very 19th century and isolated. If you are a photographer, you will have a field day. Pa managed the hotel and Laura and Mary cleaned and waited tables. Laura did not speak about her family's time in Iowa because it was so unhappy: her brother died and the family was so broke they left town in the dead of night without paying their debts. You can read about this time in Laura's life in Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Iowa Story by Laura scholar William Anderson.

Very interesting. I'd never heard this story before.