Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder

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Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
BornFebruary 7, 1867 in the Big Woods of
Wisconsin
DiedFebruary 10, 1957 in Mansfield, Missouri
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Lauras Family

• Mother
• Caroline
• Father
• Charles
• Sisters
• Mary
• Grace

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Log Cabin in the Big Woods

• The place where Laura was born in 1867
• The family returned here in 1871
• Near Pepin, Wisconsin

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Log Cabin on the Kansas Prairie

• Montgomery County, Kansas
• Moved here in 1869
• Left in 1871
• In Native American Territory

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Dugout on the Banks of Plum Creek

• In Minnesota
• Moved here in 1874 from Big Woods
• Baby Freddie died here

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Masters Hotel, Burr Oak

• Family moved here from Plum Creek
• Ran the hotel
• Grace was born here

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Pa's Store building, De Smet

• Finally obtained land here
• First ones to settle in this town
• In the Dakota Territory
• Met Almanzo here
• Taught school here

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Rocky Ridge Farm

• Moved here from De Smit with her husband,
  Almanzo, and daughter, Rose
• Wrote here
• Last house Laura lived in
• Located in Missouri

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Lauras Books

• The First Four Years
• Little House on the Prairie
• Little House in the Big Woods
• On the Banks of Plum Creek
• By the Shores of Silver Lake
• The Long Winter
• These Happy Golden Years
• Little Town on the Prairie
• Farmer Boy