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Her Birth Date
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born on Febuary 7th, 1867 in Pepin, Wisconsin. -
Moving
1874-1879 Laura and her family moved all around the country,but finally settled in De Smet, South Dakota.
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Almanzo Wilder
After they were settled in DeSmet, Laura attended a school, worked several part-time jobs and made many friends, and most important out of all those firiends, Almanzo Wilder, who She married later.This time in her life is documented in the books Little Town on the Prairie, and These Happy Golden Years. He was 10 years older than her.
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Writing
Laura had a tough winter these years and then later wrote about her times as a young teenager trying to survive the freezing temperatures and lack of food, firewood, and other items you absolutely need. Her book was called The Long Winter.
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Lots of work
Between 1883 and 1885, she taught three terms of school, worked for the local dressmaker and attended high school, even though she didn't graduate. -
Teaching
Two months before her 17th birthday, Laura accepted her first job as a teacher, teaching three terms in one-room schools, even though she never attended a school in DeSmet -
Getting Married
Her teaching career and her own studies ended when she married Almanzo Wilder when she was eighteen and he was twenty-eight -
Complications
Complications from a life-threatening bout of diphtheria made Almanzo partially paralyzed. While he eventually regained close to full use of his legs, he still needed a cane to walk for the remainder of his life. This setback, began a series of disastrous events that included the destruction of their home and barn by fire, and several years of severe drought that left them in debt.
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Children
On December 5, 1886, she gave birth to Rose Wilder. Then she later gave birth to an unnamed son, who died shortly after his birth in 1889. -
DeSmet to Florida then back to DeSmet
The breifly moving to Westville, Florida because they thought that Florida's climate would improve Wilder's health, but since they were used to living on the dry plains, they lost energy or wilted in the heat and Southern humidity, and felt out of place among the backwoods locals they decided to go back home. So in 1892, they went back to DeSmet and bought a small house.
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Moving yet again
They moved a final time to Mansfield, Missouri, using their savings to make a down payment on a piece of property just outside of town. They named the place Rocky Ridge Farm. What began as about 40 acres of thickly wooded, stone-covered hillside with a windowless log cabin, over the next 20 years turned into a 200-acre, relatively prosperous poultry, dairy, and fruit farm.
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Almanzo's death
Almanzo Wilder died at age 92 -
Death Date
She was 90 years old when she died. She died in Mansfield, Missouri, U.S. -
All of Her work
Little House in the Big Woods (1932), Farmer Boy (1933) Little House on the Prairie (1935) On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939), The Long Winter (1940), Little Town on the Prairie (1941), These Happy Golden Years (1943), On the Way Home (1962)
The First Four Years (1971)
West from Home (1974)
The Road Back (1931) -
The First Four Years
The tales of the complications with farming and sicknesses can be found in The First Four Years, a manuscript that was discovered after Rose Wilder Lane's death. It was published in 1971, and it detailed the hard-fought first four years of marriage on the Dakota prairies
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