![]() ![]() Laura Ingalls Wilder is remembered for her charming, picturesque portrayal of life on the American frontier. Despite her husband's ill health, farming (wheat, poultry, dairy, and fruit) and writing (including journalism) provided for their living on a 40 acre estate, often in times of hardship. After the birth of their daughter Rose, Laura Ingalls Wilder started recording her childhood experiences and fashioned her novels, with encouragement from her family, on the lives of pioneers in the mid 1800s. She began teaching at the age of 15 in one-room schoolhouses - while she was attending school - before marrying at age 18 homesteader Almanzo Wilder. ![]() Known for her children's books in the series, Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder (February 7,1867 - February 10, 1957) was a beloved American writer who grew up in the American Midwest. But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins." - - Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie, p. The bare trees stood against the frosty stars. ![]()
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