A25F-252 LIW: Little House Traveler
Online | Registration opens 8/1/2025 12:00 AM CDT
Together we’ll read A Little House Traveler, a collection of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s journal entries and letters from three distinct journeys. 1. On the Way Home: Laura’s 1894 move from South Dakota to Missouri with her husband Almanzo and young daughter Rose; 2. West From Home: Letters written to Almanzo during her 1915 trip to visit Rose in San Francisco; and 3. The Road Back: A road trip the Wilders took to revisit De Smet in 1931, the town where Laura grew up and met Almanzo. Published posthumously, the book reveals Laura’s candid humor and sharp eye for detail.
Shanley Wells Rau
Shanley Wells-Rau spent 20 years as a writer and editor in the corporate world before starting graduate work at Oklahoma State University, where she served as an editorial assistant for Cimarron Review and taught composition. She completed her MFA in Poetry in 2018. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The New Territory, Poetry Quarterly, Plants & Poetry and Bluestem Magazine, among others. She is a docent-in-training at the Nature Conservancy’s Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Osage County, Okla. She also serves as a reader for Gold Wake Press, an independent literary publisher. She teaches literature and creative writing part-time and lives on a windy hill outside Ponca City with her husband and dog.