The cache container is NOT at this location. By completing the Little Town on the Prairie, De Smet Adventure Lab numbers will be revealed to the final location.
Laura Ingalls and her family, (Pa, Ma, Mary, Carrie and Grace) arrived in De Smet South Dakota in September 1879 when Charles Ingalls signed on as the clerk and bookkeeper with the Chicago and North West Railroad in Dakota Territory. Laura was 12 years old when her family made their final move and helped build the town named De Smet. Charles filed a land claim in February 1880. The Ingalls homestead is one of several places to visit while in De Smet.
Laura came of age in Dakota Territory. She received her teaching degree at age 14. She married a homesteader, Almanzo Wilder in 1885 when she was 18. Their daughter Rose was born while Laura and Almanzo lived in De Smet but economic hardships, fires, drought, illness and personal loss marred the early years of their marriage. Laura, Almanzo and Rose eventually moved to Mansfield Missouri in 1894 and it is there where Laura recalled memories of her childhood, writing a series of Little House books.
Five of her books are based on her life and that of her family while living in De Smet: By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, These Happy Golden Years, and The First Four Years.
Final Coordinates:
N 44 23.AB
W 097 32.CDE