In 1894, the Wilders moved to Rocky Ridge Farm outside Mansfield, Missouri. Laura Ingalls Wilder started her writing career as a columnist.

The two married in 1885 and welcomed a daughter, Rose, the following year. They settled in Dakota Territory, where a teenaged Laura took up teaching and met Almanzo Wilder. Laura Ingalls Wilder moved a lot during her early life.īorn near Lake Pepin, Wisconsin, Laura Ingalls spent her childhood traveling around the Midwest with her family, with stops in Minnesota, Iowa, and Kansas, among other places. Get to know the pioneering author behind the series with these eight fascinating facts. Readers were captivated by her tales of family life on the homestead, and Wilder capitalized on this success by penning an entire series of Little House books, which followed the protagonist to the prairies of modern-day South Dakota and beyond. Though not every detail was strictly autobiographical, Little House in the Big Woods was the true story of its author, Laura Ingalls Wilder, who was born on February 7, 1867, and died on February 10, 1957.

He died a few weeks later.In the middle of the Great Depression, young bookworms were introduced to a spirited girl growing up in woodsy Wisconsin during the 1870s. ( The First Four Years)ġ889, July 11: Almanzo and Laura's unnamed son born.

( These Happy Golden Years)ġ885-1889: Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder marry and persevere through the first four years of their marriage as noted in The First Four Years which took place in De Smet, Dakota Territory.ġ886, December 5: Rose Wilder born in De Smet, Dakota Territory. ( Little Town on the Prairie)ġ885, August 25: Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder married in De Smet, Dakota Territory. Wilder did not write about her family's time there.ġ879-1885: The Ingallses lived in De Smet, Dakota Territory where By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, and These Happy Golden Years took place.ġ883, December 10: Laura received her teaching certificate. Laura Ingalls Wilder did not write a children's book about this time of her life, however, she did write about it in her autobiography Pioneer Girl.ġ877-1879: The Ingallses returned to Walnut Grove, Minnesota. This is when and where Little House in the Big Woods took place.ġ874-1876: The Ingallses lived in Walnut Grove, Minnesota where On the Banks of Plum Creek took place.ġ876-1877: The Ingallses lived in Burr Oak, Iowa. 1867, February 7: Laura Elizabeth Ingalls born in Pepin, Wisconsin.ġ867-1869: The Ingalles lived in Pepin, Wisconsin.ġ869-1871: The Ingallses lived in Independence, Kansas (Indian Territory) where Little House on the Prairie took place.ġ871-1874: The Ingallses returned to Pepin, Wisconsin.

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