Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Highway Guide

About the Book

Laura Ingalls Wilder spent her girl and young womanhood moving with her family to various locations across the Western Frontier of the late 1800’s. Her series of nine Little House Books recount her adventures and call to life a time when she and America were young together. In 1997 Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota officially designated Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Highway. The Historic Highway authentically follows her family’s trek West and the course of her books. This guide provides information on attractions along the route, historic and geographic perspectives, and a Directory to Visitors Services.

About the Author

Mike Gleue, author of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Highway Guide, is a lifelong native of the Upper Midwest ¾ born in North Dakota, raised in Southern Minnesota and currently residing in Stockholm, Wisconsin, near the Wilder site community of Pepin. As President of Pepin County’s Economic Development Corporation, he worked with the Wilder Memorial Societies and others to create LIW-HH. He discerned the Wisconsin and Eastern Minnesota stretches of LIW-HH and worked with state and local officials to obtain Wisconsin’s designation of the Historic Highway and establishment of the LIW-HH Information Center in Menomonie’s Mabel Tainter Theater.