They bought a piece of land, planted over 400 apple trees, and christened their new home Rocky Ridge Farm.’The couple lived out the rest of their lives there.” Laura and Almanzo’s second child-a son-died just a month after his birth in the summer of 1889, and a series of drought, fire, and financial crises forced the couple to move east to Minnesota, south to Florida, back to South Dakota, and ultimately to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894. Both had diphtheria and Almanzo suffered a subsequent stroke, which left him permanently disabled.Īs Rose later wrote, her father ‘limped through the rest of his ninety years and was never as strong as he had been.’ “Laura and Almanzo’s first nine years of marriage were marred by economic hardship and personal loss.
The early years of Laura and Almanzo’s marriage are described in this excellent post, In Search of Laura, by Pamela Hill Smith: She told of this journey in diary entries that were later published in On the Way Home. In 1894, The couple and their seven-year-old daughter, Rose, made the journey from their drought-stricken farm in De Smet to a new farm in Mansfield, Missouri, where they settled permanently. Though Laura wasn’t conventionally educated, she managed to get her teaching certificate at the age of fifteen. Three years later, she married Almanzo Wilder, and helped her husband work the farm that they lived on. It may be comforting to aspiring writers of all ages that her first book wasn’t published until she was sixty-five! Laura and Almanzo: Another long journey The Ingalls moved around quite a bit, and though it wasn’t an easy life, it gave Laura a rich trove of memories and experiences to draw upon when she began writing. The family loved the open spaces of the prairie, where they farmed and raised animals.
The Ingalls family traveled by covered wagon through Kansas and Minnesota with all that they owned, until finally settling in De Smet, Dakota Territory. Her Little House series of books have been beloved by generations of young readers.īorn in a log cabin on the edge of an area called “Big Woods” in Pepin, Wisconsin, her life was the inspiration for her novels and richly informed her memoirs.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (Febru– February 10, 1957) gained renown for her autobiographical writings reflecting her life as an American pioneer.
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