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Controversy arose following MacBride's death in 1995, when the Laura Ingalls Wilder Branch of the Wright County Library in Mansfield—the library founded in part by Wilder—tried to recover the rights to the series. The ensuing court case was settled in an undisclosed manner, with MacBride's heirs retaining the rights to Wilder's books.
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 Houghtaling Ingalls (December 14, 1893 – January 10, 1967) was an American pilot who won the Harmon Trophy. She was arrested in December 1941 and convicted of failing to register as a paid Nazi agent, and served 20 months in prison.
Delano family in America. Amasa Delano (1763–1823), master mariner, shipbuilder and author [16] Amasa Delano was a 19th-century American sea captain and trader who is best known for his role in several maritime adventures, including an encounter with a group of shipwrecked slaves that later became the basis for a famous novella. Amasa Delano ...
In 1874, when Wilder was seven years old, the family left their home near Pepin for the second time, and settled just outside Walnut Grove, Minnesota.Walnut Grove may be the most recognized name of all the towns Wilder wrote about in her books (although it is the only town she did not mention by name) because Michael Landon's television series Little House on the Prairie of the 1970s and 1980s ...
A previously unpublished book from the author behind 'Little House on the Prairie' has hit the shelves, but don't be fooled, this one isn't for kids. Laura Ingalls Wilder's autobiography, 'Pioneer ...
Edmund Ingalls (26/27 June 1598 – 16 September 1648) was a founder of Lynn, Massachusetts. Born to Robert Ingalls in Skirbeck, Boston, Lincolnshire, England, he arrived in Salem, Massachusetts in Governor John Endicott's company in 1628. It is believed that he and his family came with Endicott and a party of about 100 in the "Abigail," which ...
Robert Boast, appeared in a number of the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder; Reverend Edward Brown, appeared in two of the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder; Florence Garland Dawley, teacher in De Smet during the Hard Winter of 1880–81; Caroline Ingalls, "Ma" from the "Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder