Laura ingles wilder biography

p. 4A, c. pp. When, after laboriously constructing a little log house, the Ingallses are ordered off their claim by the U.S. government, they backtrack to Minnesota and, in On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), settle on a farm near an established town. In her books, Wilder would later come to call the cabin "The Little House in the Big Woods." Two years after her birth, in 1869, her family moved to Kansas, which would become the setting for her book Little House on the Prairie.

33. Then they lost two wheat crops to drought, which was followed by the death of their two-week-old son. By the time the full series was published, Laura Ingalls Wilder had become a national celebrity. 8-21. By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, and These Happy Golden Years are all focused on Laura’s remaining childhood years in South Dakota.

While each story’s main theme was drawn from real life events, Laura left some facts out and added fictional elements in order to make the books more attractive to young readers.

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