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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 Ingalls 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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