![]() ![]() “The great, dark trees of the Big Woods stood all around the house, and beyond them were other trees and beyond them were more trees.” Published in 1932, Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder was the first installment of an eight-piece autobiographical book series, which would later be followed by various spinoff series, picture books, cookbooks, and a hit TV show.īut, were the “Big Woods” of Pepin, Wisconsin exactly as Laura described them? Now in 2022, 90 years after the original book was published, we decided to do a deep dive on this historic area and the small town of Pepin, located halfway between La Crosse and Minneapolis along the Mississippi River.Īccording to Laura’s childhood memory, her family was isolated in the Big Woods there were no houses, people, or roads for miles. Now for some 90 years, millions of children around the globe have envisioned one such natural place in their young minds-the Big Woods of Wisconsin. From pictographs to oral histories to the written word, nature has provided a common thread connecting people across all times and places. ![]() ![]() For centuries, wilderness has been at the center of storytelling. ![]()
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