June 4, 2008 Dansk tekst til venstre English text on the right Dagens baghave: Backyard of the Day: Little House on the Prairie, Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas The Little House on the Prairie is located 13 miles southwest of Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas.   Fra Carthage, Missouri, kørte vi til morgen vestpå til det lille hus på prærien, som Ingalls-familien byggede sydvest for Independence, Kansas, hvor de slog sig ned i 1869 efter næsten et års rejse med prærievogn. Huset er ikke det oprindelige, det var for længst væk, da Laura Ingalls Wilder begyndte at skrive sine bøger i 1930'erne. Men det er bygget efter Laura's beskrivelser. Og bagved huset ligger stadig den brønd, Charles Ingalls gravede ved håndkraft. This morning we drove west from Carthage, Missouri, to the little house on the prairie, which the Ingalls family built southwest of Independence, Kansas, where they settled in 1869 after nearly a year's journey by wagon. The house is not the original, that one was long gone by the time Laura Ingalls Wilder started to write her books in the 1930s. But the replica is built according to Laura's descriptions. And behind the house there is still the well Charles Ingalls himself dug by hand.       "Hele vejen rundt om dem var der ikke andet end præriens græs, der strakte sig til himlens kant. Ret tæt på, mod nord, lå å-lejet nedenfor prærien. Nogle mørkere grønne trætoppe kunne ses, og, på den anden side af dem, lidt af kanten af de lerede klinter, der holdt præriens græsser oppe. Langt mod øst lå en brudt linie af forskellige grønne farver på prærien, og far sagde, det var floden. 'Det er Verdigris-floden,' sagde han til mor, idet han pegede på den." "All around them there was nothing but grassy prairie spreading to the edge of the sky. Quite near them, to the north, the creek bottoms lay below the prairie. Some darker green tree-tops showed, and beyond them bits of the rim of earthen bluffs held up the prairie's grasses. Far away to the east, a broken line of different greens lay on the prairie, and Pa said that was the river. 'That's the Verdigris River,' he said, pointing it out to Ma."

"Næste dag begyndte far på væggene. Fra hver side rullede han en stamme op, og han lavede hak i enderne, så den ville passe ovenpå endevæggene. Så rullede han stammer op fra enderne og lavede hak i dem, så de passede ovenpå sidevæggene." "Next day Pa began the walls. From each side he rolled up a log, and he notched its ends so that it fitted down over the end logs. Then he rolled up logs from the ends, and notched them so that they fitted down over the side logs."

Huset er virkelig ikke ret stort, omtrent på størrelse med vores lille campingvogn. Det er næsten umuligt at forestille sig, at en familie på fem kunne bo der. The house really isn't very big at all, maybe about the size of our little Lance camper. It is almost impossible to imagine a family of five actually living there.

Den lille figur på kaminhylden minder om Carolines elskede porcelænshyrdinde, men det er ikke den. The small figurine on the mantel is reminiscent of Caroline's beloved porcelain shepherdess, but it's not the one.

Ingalls-familien fandt snart ud af, at de havde slået sig ned på Osage indianernes land, og efter godt et år på prærien, blev de i 1871 tvunget til at forlade det lille hus og vende tilbage til Pepin, Wisconsin. The Ingalls family soon discovered that they had settled on Osage Indian land, and after just over a year of living on the prairie, they were forced in 1871 to leave the little house and return to Pepin, Wisconsin.

I dag ligger der adskillige andre huse af lokalhistorisk betydning ved siden af det lille hus på prærien, men vi tog ikke så stor interesse i dem.... Today several other houses of local historical significance lie around the little hus on the prairie, but we really didn't take great interest in them....

Camping/Boondocking Information We boondocked at a small Sinclair truck stop a little ways north of Maryville, Missouri.   More Ingalls Family Information Here s More Kansas Travel Information Here YESTERDAY TOMORROW