Laura Ingalls Wilder turned her childhood experiences ... The family settled at Burr Oak, north of Decorah, to operate the Masters Hotel in the tiny community that served as a stopping-off place ...

All donations to the museum are tax deductible. They can be mailed to Laura Ingalls Wilder Park & Museum, 3603 236th Ave., Burr Oak, IA 52101.

The Ingalls family’s adventures across the Midwest are among the best-known journeys in American history, right up there with the Oregon Trail, and Lewis and Clark. Wilder made ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder nevertheless skipped the period in 1876-'77 when Laura passed her 10th birthday living in Burr Oak, Iowa, where her parents helped run a hotel. One begins to grasp the reason ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder ... And they were essentially so in need of funds that Charles Ingalls concocted a scheme that they would move to Burr Oak, Iowa. Narrator: And the downward spiral continues.

Laura Ingalls ... There, the youngest Ingalls child, a son born in Walnut Grove, sickened and died. In the wake of these hardships, the family moved south to Burr Oak, Iowa, where Charles and ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder penned ... including much of the time the family spent in Burr Oak, Iowa, and Walnut Grove, Minnesota, according to Pamela Smith Hill, a Wilder biographer and the lead editor ...