Carrie Ingalls may not have written Little House on the Prairie but she was a pioneer just like her sister. Born Caroline Celestia Ingalls in Montgomery County, Kansas on August 3, 1870, Carrie spent most of her life on the South Dakota prairie. She lived on the family farm in Kansas until the age of 9. And homesteaded in South Dakota until she was nearly 40 years old. Unlike other pioneers, however, Carrie didn't only work the land. She was a schoolteacher, clerked in stores, and worked as a typesetter for local newspapers. It was her newspaper experience that brought her Keystone. Carrie worked for E.L. Senn, owner of 51 South Dakota broadsheets, in Pedro and Roseland, South Dakota before moving to Keystone to manage the Keystone Recorder in 1911. It was here that she met her husband, David N. Swanzey, and settled into city life. Carrie lived in Keystone, South Dakota for 36 years.