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Little House on the Prairie
Little House on the Prairie
Mansfield, Missouri
The farm where Laura Ingalls Wilder penned her famous pioneer series is now a museum, with many of her belongings, including her writing desk, exactly as she left them. -
Old Yeller
Old Yeller
Mason, Texas
A bronze statue of the beloved yellow Black Mouth Cur stands in the hometown of the tearjerker’s author, Fred Gipson. It was dedicated in 1999 at the first Old Yeller Day, a celebration now held each September. The town library also hosts an exhibit showcasing memorabilia from the book and Gipson’s life. -
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
Monroeville, Alabama
Harper Lee grew up just a few blocks from the courthouse that inspired the setting for the trial at the center of her masterpiece. Now a museum, the building is open to those wishing to pay their respects to the late author. -
Where the Red Fern Grows
Where the Red Fern Grows
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Tahlequah honors author Wilson Rawls with an annual festival each spring, complete with a coon hunt and hound-dog trials. Natural Falls State Park and the surrounding Ozarks, the setting for Rawls’s coming-of-age tale, are spectacular all year. -
The Yearling
The Yearling
Hawthorne, Florida
Visit the 1930s Florida Cracker–style home at Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park, where the author penned her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Forty miles east, you can ramble down the Yearling Trail in Ocala National Forest.
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