By the time she was eighteen, Laura Ingalls had walked away from at least a dozen homes: the house in Wisconsin, the house in Kansas, the house on Plum Creek; hotels, apartments, and rented or borrowed houses in Missouri, Burr Oak, and Walnut Grove; the claim shanty and the surveyors’ house on Silver Lake, the buildings Charles built in De Smet, and the shanty on their homestead just south of it.
