Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls was born in 1867 in a log cabin near Pepin, Wisconsin, the second daughter of Charles and Caroline Ingalls. As a child she traveled with her family by covered wagon to Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa and finally Dakota Territory, where they settled in De Smet in 1879. At fifteen Laura began teaching school. In 1885 she married Almanzo Wilder, a farmer, and their daughter Rose was born the next year. After years of drought, illness and a house fire, they moved in 1894 to Mansfield, Missouri, where they built up Rocky Ridge Farm. From 1911 she wrote a column for the Missouri Ruralist. Encouraged by Rose, who had become a writer, she began in her sixties to write about her childhood. Little House in the Big Woods appeared in 1932, followed by Farmer Boy, about Almanzo's boyhood in New York, Little House on the Prairie and five more books. They were later adapted as a television series. She died at Rocky Ridge in 1957.

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