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Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886 – October 30, 1968) was an American writer and daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Along with two other female writers, Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, Lane is one of the more influential advocates of the American libertarian movement.
While most Americans know the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder from the Little House books, it was her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, who was really the true writer of the family.
Rose Wilder Lane. Rose Wilder Lane was the only surviving child of Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder. She was born Dec. 5, 1886 in De Smet, the Dakota Territory — the prairie where Little House on the Prairie took place. A bright student, she completed three years of Latin in one.
Rose Wilder Lane Photographs. The Rose Wilder Lane Papers contain over 700 of Lane's personal photographs. Most of them depict events from her life, people she knew, or places where she traveled or lived.
Rose Wilder Lane – Biography. Rose Wilder was the first child and only daughter of Laura and Almanzo Wilder, born on December 5, 1886, in De Smet, South Dakota. She later moved to Mansfield, Missouri with her parents.
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum houses the Rose Wilder Lane Papers, which document her extraordinary life as a journalist and an author, and reveal the important role she played in her later years formulating and promoting Libertarian ideas.
Readers of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved “Little House” children’s books already know crusading libertarian writer Rose Wilder Lane as “baby Rose,” whose birth and early years are chronicled in The First Four Years.