Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

No matter how thick and close the neighbors get, this country'll never feel crowded.

This is a country I'll be contented to stay in the rest of my life.' 'We're going to do well here, Caroline,' Pa said. As far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there was nothing but woods. The great, dark trees of the Big Woods stood around the house, and beyond them were other trees and beyond them were more trees. Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.

Little House in the Big Woods (Harper & Brothers Publishing, 1932).

Farmer Boy (Harper & Brothers Publishing, 1933).

Little House on the Prairie(HarperCollins, 1935).

On the Banks of Plum Creek(HarperCollins, 1937).

By the Shores of Silver Lake(HarperCollins, 1939).

Little Town on the Prairie(HarperCollins, 1941).

Those Happy Golden Years(HarperCollins, 1943).The First Four Years (HarperCollins, 1971).Other works consisting of Wilder's letters and diary entries, have also been published in the years following her death. The First Four Years (1971), published postumously, is considered a separate work. The Little House series is made up of eight books originally published between 19. Return to Topīibliography ( - housed in Thomas Fox Averill Kansas Studies Collection) She is buried next to Almanzo and Rose in Mansfield, Missouri.

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder died on February 10, 1957. Rose helped with all future Little House books, though the level of her contribution, whether minor or dominating, is not clear. Little House in the Big Woods was published in 1931 with the help of Laura's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane (born December, 5 1886). Before the success of the Little House series, Laura served as a columnist and editor for the Missouri Ruralist between 1911 until the mid-1920s. After years of hardship in South Dakota and brief stays in Florida and Minnesota, the Wilders settled in Mansfield, Missouri. Laura married Almanzo Wilder, age 28, on August 25, 1885, at the age of 18. This cabin is a reproduction of the Ingalls cabin, a travel stop near Independence, Kansas.Īlthough not graduating from high school herself, Laura Ingalls taught three terms of classes in a one-room schoolhouses in South Dakota. Laura's early life experiences in the homestead near Independence, Kansas, provide the basis for Little House on the Prairie. Over the course of her childhood, the Ingalls family made their home in Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, and the Dakota Territory. Laura was born to Charles and Caroline Ingalls near the small town of Pepin, Wisconsin, as the second of five children. Gained renown for her Little House series of books detailing her childhood years spent as a pioneer in the Great Plains. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (FebruFebruary 10, 1957)

Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder