In the winter of 1879, a man by the name of Charles Ingalls brought his family to
South Dakota, fell in love with the area and filed for a formal homestead in the small
community of De Smet. Charles Ingalls was the father of Laura Ingalls, the author of
The Little House on the Prairie series.

Join us as we roll across the prairie in a horse-drawn cart to Laura’s homestead,
take part in a spelling bee in the 1889 Little Prairie School, drop into rehearsals for
the Laura Ingalls Wilder Pageant and uncover treasures in the archive room at the
Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society Museum.

- Brian Thacker, presenter

Thank you to everyone who featured in this episode:

- Ann Lesch from the Ingalls Homestead
- Christie Hubbard from the pageant society
- Mary Jo Wirtz from the Memorial society

Recorded on-location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you
hear what it’s like to be there; it’s designed to let you feel what it’s like for real.

Find out more at www.travelsouthdakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration,
ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota
adventure.

Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry
www.armchair-productions.com

The South Dakota culinary scene is heavily influenced by Indigenous people, Scandinavians, Germans, Russians, farmers, hunters… and even church basement ladies. From all those sources the state has a smorgasbord of local specialties with names as exotic as some of the dishes themselves.

Join us as we go on a four-course road trip around South Dakota. Our appetizer is the state’s ‘official nosh’ chislic, followed by a James Beard winning restaurant in a town of 1,800 people, and finish up with some world-famous donuts from Wall Drug for dessert. Then of course we need a digestif. Although the one we try is… just dangerous.

- Brian Thacker, presenter

Thank you to everyone who featured in this episode:

- Joy Ann Smith and Andrea Bear from the Chislic Festival

- Joseph Raney from Skogen in Custer

- Sarah Hustead from Wall Drug

- Jerry Sailer from Black Hills Contraband Distillery

- Cowboy Keith from the Blue Bell Lodge Chuckwagon Dinner

Recorded on-location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it’s like to be there; it’s designed to let you feel what it’s like for real.

Find out more at www.travelsouthdakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure.

Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry www.armchair-productions.com

The Lakota people called it Mako Sica. It means bad lands. It’s probably not a name that a tourism office would come up with. It sounds more like a desolate and forbidding landscape.

So, is it a fitting name?

Join us as we hike through a colorful geological tapestry of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires in Badlands National Park in search of ancient fossils, become an unwelcome visitor in a prairie town, and go horseback riding through an endless sea of grass under the shadows of rocky buttes straight out of a western movie.

- Brian Thacker, presenter

Thank you to everyone who featured in this episode:

- Ed Welsh and Paul Roghair from the Badlands National Park

- And Casie Donald from Hurley Butte Horseback

Recorded on-location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it’s like to be there; it’s designed to let you feel what it’s like for real.

Find out more at www.travelsouthdakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure.

Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry www.armchair-productions.com