Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Laura Ingalls was born in 1867 in the “Big Woods” of Wisconsin. Her family traveled by covered wagon and lived in many different places in Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, and South Dakota. She lived a hard pioneer life with her parents and 3 sisters. She was a tomboy and loved snowball fights. |
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Laura became a teacher in South Dakota when she was 15 years old. She only had 5 students and some of them were as big as she was. As a teacher she met Almanzo Wilder. Every weekend he would drive her 12 miles home to see her family. They got married a few years later.
Laura’s life was not easy as a farmer’s wife. They tried farming for 4 years until a fire burned down their home. Laura, her husband and their daughter Rose then moved to a farm in Missouri. When she was older, Laura wrote newspaper articles about farm life, started a library and helped farmers get loans.
Her daughter Rose always enjoyed hearing her mother’s stories about growing up in pioneer days. She asked her mother to write her stories down. When Laura Ingalls Wilder was 65 years old she wrote her first book about growing up on the prairie. It was called, Little House in the Big Woods. She wrote 11 more books about her life growing up from age 5-18.
Many still read her stories today. Her true stories help us to remember what life was like as a pioneer on the prairie.
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