Laura Ingalls Wilder The young Laura Ingalls Wilder was part of the last generation of Americans to experience frontier life as we read about in her books. Later in life, she saw children growing up in a more technologically fueled, urban
Gateway Arch The Gateway to the West in St. Louis, Missouri marks the location where the Mississippi River divides the east from the west. The goal was this: “A suitable and permanent public memorial to the men who made possible the