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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Auto daredevil show at the Missouri State Fair, 1960s The Missouri State Fair is the state fair for the state of Missouri , which has operated since 1901 in Sedalia, Missouri . It includes daily concerts, exhibits and competitions of animals, homemade crafts, shows, and many food/lemonade stands, and it lasts 11 days.
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 town sits on the drainage divide between the White River tributaries to the south and the Missouri River tributaries to the north. [ 6 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 1.90 square miles (4.92 km 2 ), of which 1.88 square miles (4.87 km 2 ) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km 2 ) is water.
Sep. 27—Carrie Aadland loves Laura Ingalls Wilder so much, she changed her name from Nancy Lynn to Carrie, after the sister of the famous pioneer and "Little House on the Prairie" author.
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]