Missouri

From St Louis, we headed southwest to Mansfield, to see the house where Laura Wilder lived while she wrote the "Little House" books.  She was a pretty short woman, so her husband made all the cabinets shorter than normal to accommodate her.

Tuesday morning, we visited Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, which had a very nice visitor's center for a fairly minor civil war battle.

Then we hit the George Washington Carver National Monument, which similar to Grant's House will be better soon, as they are currently constructing a new visitor's center.  Over the course of his lifetime, Carver rose from slavery to become a renowned educator and research scientist.  He created 325 uses for peanuts.