Laura Ingalls Wilder was a famous
author who lived in the 1800s and 1900s.
In 1867, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was born in Pepin,
Wisconsin. Laura was the second of five
children. Her sisters’ names were Mary
Amelia Ingalls, Caroline Celestia Ingalls, and Grace Pearl Ingalls. In 1869,
they moved to Indian Territory, Kansas.
While they lived in Kansas, they were forced by troops to leave, and so
they went back to Pipen, Wisconsin. Soon
after, they moved to the banks of Plum Creek which is Walnut Grove,
Minnesota. In November 1875, Laura’s
brother Charles Fredrick Ingalls, Jr. was born.
He died when he was nine months old.
For a while the Ingalls moved to Burr Oak, Iowa to run a hotel. Then they moved back to Walnut Grove. Mary got sick with scarlet fever and became
blind. In 1879, they moved to De Smet,
Dakota Territory. Laura got married to
Almanzo on August 25, 1885. They had a
baby girl named Rose Wilder. In the
spring of 1888, Laura and Almanzo got ill with diphtheria. Laura had a baby boy, but died at twelve days
old. Almanzo’s and Laura’s house and
tree claim burned down, but they rebuild it.
The Wilders left De Smet and went to Mansfield, Missouri. In 1932, when she was 65, Laura’s first book
was published called Little House in the Big Woods. The following year Farmer Boy was
published, followed by Little House on the Prairie. On the Banks of
Plum Creek, By the shores of Silver Lake, The
Long Winter, and Little Town on the Prairie soon followed. On October 23, 1949, Almanzo Wilder
died. On February 10, 1957, Laura died
at the age of 90. Long after her death,
in 1971, Laura’s unfinished story The First Four Years was
published. Laura Ingalls Wilder had a
lot of happy and sad times in her life and also hard times. I enjoyed her books because I like how she
lived.
