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Rose Wilder Lane birthplace roadside marker – De Smet Laura and Almanzo Wilder, circa 1885 Location of Wilder homestead where both of Wilder's children were born – De Smet Ingalls' teaching career and studies ended when she married Almanzo Wilder on August 25, 1885, in De Smet, South Dakota.
Carrie Ingalls' birth is also recorded as being in Montgomery County, Kansas, in August 1870. Today, there is a facsimile log cabin at the site. The state of Kansas has designated the childhood home of Laura Ingalls southwest of Independence as a historic site, which is open to visitors. The site includes a cabin modeled after the original ...
Laura and Almanzo Wilder, circa 1885. When Wilder was 23 years old and Ingalls was 15, the two began courting. Wilder would drive Ingalls back and forth between De Smet and a new settlement 12 miles (19 km) outside town, where she was teaching school and boarding. Then, when spring arrived, the couple would go for long buggy rides.
Laura’s Album: a remembrance scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. 1998. ISBN 0-06-027842-0. Anderson, William. Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Iowa Story. Burr Oak, Iowa. The Laura IngallsWilder Park and Museum. 2001. ISBN 0-9610088-9-X; Anderson, William. Prairie Girl: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
The Laura Ingalls Wilder House is a historic house museum at 3060 Highway A in Mansfield, Missouri. Also known as Rocky Ridge Farm, it was the home of author Laura Ingalls Wilder from 1896 until her death in 1957. The author of the Little House on the Prairie series, Wilder began writing the series while living there. The house, together with ...
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society purchased the house in 1967 and opened it to the public the next year. The bodies of Charles, Caroline, Mary, Carrie, and Grace Ingalls, and the unnamed infant son of Laura and Almanzo Wilder and Grace’s husband, Nathan Dow, are buried nearby in the De Smet Cemetery a little over a mile away.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's autobiography, 'Pioneer Girl' details her life in the country, but the picture is less than perfect. With accounts of domestic abuse, messy love triangles, and even a drunk ...
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Highway is a named road connecting historic areas that relate to the life of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, best known for writing Little House on the Prairie. The highway was first designated in 1995 as U.S. Route 14 from Lake Benton in southwest Minnesota to Mankato in the south-central part of the state.