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The Wilder family left Burke in 1870 due to crop failures. Moving west, they settled in Spring Valley, Minnesota, where they established a farm.In 1879, Wilder, his older brother Royal, and older sister Eliza Jane moved to the Dakota Territory, taking claims near what would later become the town of De Smet, South Dakota.
After failing at farming in the Dakotas in the 1890s—drought, illness, and fire contributing—Wilder moved with her husband, Almanzo, and their young daughter, Rose, to the Ozarks in Missouri. Decades later, after writing columns and editing for a regional farm newspaper, she was encouraged by Rose to write a memoir of growing up on the ...
The Wilder family occupied the property until about 1875. The property is operated by the Almanzo & Laura Ingalls Wilder Association as an interactive educational center, museum and working farm as in the time of Almanzo Wilder's childhood as depicted in the Laura Ingalls Wilder book Farmer Boy. [6]: 6–7 [7]
On the Way Home is the diary of an American farm wife, Laura Ingalls Wilder, during her 1894 migration with her husband Almanzo Wilder and their seven-year-old daughter, Rose, from De Smet, South Dakota, to Mansfield, Missouri, where they settled permanently.
The teacher for the fall term is Eliza Jane Wilder, Almanzo's older sister, who has a nearby claim of her own. Nellie turns her against Laura, and Wilder loses control of the school for a time. A visit by the school board restores order; however, Wilder leaves at the end of the fall term. For the winter term, Miss Wilder is replaced by Mr. Clewett.
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Laura and Almanzo's romance continues to blossom until he offers her an engagement ring. She accepts his proposal to be married the following summer. When Almanzo tells his family of the engagement, his older sister Eliza Jane plans to throw an elaborate wedding. To stop Eliza Jane from taking over their wedding, Laura agrees to be married quickly.