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The semi-autobiographical
books of Laura Ingalls Wilder detailed her life in a pioneering family.
She was the second of Charles and Caroline Wilders children and was born
near Pepin Wisconsin in what was in 1867 called the Big Woods. Charles
was a restless man and settled the family in the Indian territory of Kansas
before returning to Wisconsin. The itch struck him again and the family
relocated to the Dakota territory where he got a job with the railroad in
DeSmet, South Dakota, where they watched the town spring up around them.
It was here that Laura met Alamanzo Wilder, whom she later married.
She was a teacher, but when she married, became a prairie farmers wife.
Her life at this point was hard and often disasterous and included the death
of her newborn son, fire, drought and sickness, events that she detailed in
The Fiirst Four Years. Laura and Alamanzo finally found their place
when they relocated to Missouri and began farming again. Over
the years, with the help of Alamanzos family, they purchased a property and
built a successful dairy and fruit farm
Laura Ingalls Wilders books are part fiction,
but present many events and characters that are identical to her own life.
For example she had a sister of her own named Mary. In Wilders books,
Mary was much more proper than her little sister Laura. She was the
responsible older sister who watched out for the smaller children. In
real life, as in Wilders books, Mary lost her sight after an illness, but,
as in the books, with real pioneer spirit, she adapted and lived a full
life.
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