LAURA INGALLS WILDER
AS SEEN IN:
'Little House On The Prairie'
"CREATED BY"
Herself
(The books were autobiographical in nature.)
PORTRAYED BY:
Melissa Gilbert
From Wikipedia:
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was
an American author who wrote the Little House series of books based on her
childhood in a pioneer family. Laura's daughter, Rose, inspired Laura to write
her books.
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born February 7, 1867, seven miles north of the village of Pepin, in the "Big Woods" of Wisconsin, to Charles Phillip Ingalls and Caroline Lake (Quiner) Ingalls. She was the second of five children; her siblings were Mary Amelia, who went blind, Caroline Celestia, Charles Frederick, who died in infancy, and Grace Pearl.
In Laura's early childhood, her father settled on land not yet open for homesteading in what was then Indian Territory near what is now Independence, Kansas—an experience that formed the basis of Ingalls' novel Little House on the Prairie. In the years subsequent to this move, her father's restless spirit led them on various moves to a preemption claim in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, living with relatives near South Troy, Minnesota, and helping to run a hotel in Burr Oak, Iowa. After a move from Burr Oak back to Walnut Grove, where he served as the town butcher and Justice of the Peace, Charles Ingalls accepted a railroad job in the spring of 1879 which led him to eastern Dakota Territory, where he was joined by the family in the fall of 1879. Charles filed for a homestead over the winter of 1879–1880; De Smet, South Dakota was home for the rest of his, Caroline, and Mary's lives.
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