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Ancient Greeks served them asan incentive to drink. Romans im-ported and fattened them. Ameri-can Indians on both coastsconsidered them a staple in theirdiet. Abraham Lincoln served themto guests at parties at his Illinoishome.

And in Dakota Territory in 1880,oysters were a New Year’s Daytreat for some famous settlers.

Charles and Caroline Ingalls,their daughters Mary, Laura, Carrieand Grace, and their fellow home-steaders and friends near De Smet,Robert and Ella Boast, began thenew year with a special dinner.

“There were oysters and honeyand sauce [from] home dried fruitthe Boasts had brought with them.We told stories and joked and hada happy New Year’s day,” Laura In-galls Wilder wrote in “Pioneer Girl:The Annotated Autobiography.”

Charles Ingalls referred to theoccasion as “the first oyster festi-val in Kingsbury county.”

“Pioneer Girl” is Wilder’s originalnonfiction account of her life. It isthe true story behind both her fic-tional “Little House” books foryoungsters and the long-running“Little House on the Prairie” televi-sion series starring Michael Landon.

The autobiographywas recently pub-lished by the SouthDakota Historical So-ciety Press.

In “Pioneer Girl,”Wilder describes 16years of the mostlywestward journeythat the Ingalls fam-ily took from 1869

through 1885. In 1879, the Ingallsfamily was living near Walnut Grove,Minnesota, when Charles accepteda job as bookkeeper and companystorekeeper for A.L. Wells and Co.,which sold goods to the graders onthe Dakota Central Division of theChicago & North Western RailwayCo. The railroad was expanding itsrail service west from Tracy, Min-nesota. The family arrived at SilverLake, near De Smet, in September.

The Boasts homesteaded about amile east of De Smet. The Ingallsfamily had New Year’s dinner at theBoasts’ house.

“It was all the more fun becausetheir one room was so small, thatwith the table set, we had to go inthe outside door and around to ourplace at the table one by one andleaving the table we must reversethe order and go out the door fol-lowing the scripture that, ‘The first

shall be last and the last first,’”Wilder wrote in “Pioneer Girl.”

It was probably canned oysterson which the Ingalls and Boastsdined. Fresh or canned, oysters hadsoared in popularity in the 19th cen-tury, according to an annotation in“Pioneer Girl.” Packed in hermeti-cally sealed cans, oysters “traveledthe breadth of the wide trans-Mis-souri region almost as soon asAmericans ventured there,” accord-ing to historian Paul Hedren. Rail-roads brought oysters almosteverywhere by 1880.

In her fictional account of theNew Year’s Day meal in “By theShores of Silver Lake,” Wilder de-scribed how they dined on oystersoup and that Laura had nevertasted anything as good as the “sea-tasting hot milk” with oysters at thebottom.

The first day of 1880 ushered in awinter that Wilder described in “Pio-neer Girl” as passing quickly andmerrily.

Individuals may order copies of“Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Auto-biography” through the South

Dakota Historical Society Founda-tion at (605) 773-6346 orwww.sdhsf.org. More informationabout Wilder’s autobiography canbe found at www.pioneergirlpro-ject.org.

This article is provided by theSouth Dakota Historical SocietyFoundation, the nonprofit fundrais-ing partner of the South DakotaState Historical Society. Find us onthe web at www.sdhsf.org. Contactus at info@sdhsf.org to submit astory idea.

A New Year’sDay CelebrationOn The Prairie

PHOTO: SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESSThe Ingalls family, as depicted in this 1894 portrait photo.

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