Wednesday morning we were on The Banks of Plum Creek, a place made famous by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The plum in the photo is from a bush that is only a step or two away from the site of the dugout where the Ingalls family lived in 1874.
Tuesday I had hoped to ride my bike to this site as well as get in a 100-mile ride. But it didn’t quite happen. More on that another time, as I have only a slow internet connection at the moment. (I will mention, though, that I need to describe how I was given shelter from a thunderstorm that ended my riding for the day.)
I haven’t tried to connect the Plum Creek site to the Black Hawk story, but it seemed like an appropriate destination given that the Little House books were an inspiration for my historical bike riding. The inspiration didn’t really come so much from this site; rather, it was from the transition of DeSmet, South Dakota from prairie to farms and town, as described in later books in the series. But I had never before been to the Plum Creek site, and a visit to this site was compatible with other family activities this week.
