When Laura was 13 her family settled in De Smet and she went to school on a regular basis.

16 but she never graduated

Laura married Almanzo Wilder on August 25, 1885. They moved several times but then settled on a small farm in Mansfield Missouri.

Rose kept asking her mother for stories of her pioneer days. This is how Laura got started writing.

book entitled Little House In The Big Woods.

Laura was 65 when she published

Little House series

A weekly television series, Little House on the Prairie, began in 1974 and ran for many seasons.

Laura Ingalls Wilder died February 10, 1957 in Mansfield of stroke. Laura was important because with her books she brought life on the frontier into the homes of millions of children

of stroke. Laura was important because with her books she brought life on the frontier into the homes of millions of

People who did not read the books but who saw the television series were able to see what frontier life was like

For instance, people had to wash cloths in the lakes, they had to gather wood for the fireplace, and they had to warm the water over the fireplace before they put it in the tub to get washed.

If Laura didn't live we wouldn't know how people lived on the frontier. Learning about Laura Ingalls Wilder made me understand how much easier living and learning is today

successful farm, built their own home and settled down permanently in the Ozark hills

Rose grew up and moved away, and became the well-known author, journalist and world traveler Rose Wilder Lane

In 1932, Laura Ingalls Wilder published the first of her beloved "Little House" books, which described the pioneering of the Ingalls and Wilder families during the 1870's - 1890's. All of the nine manuscripts for these famous books were penned right here on Rocky Ridge Farm. Their publication made the Wilders well-known international literary characters