Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American writer, teacher, and journalist. She is best known as the author of the children's book series Little House on the Prairie, published between 1932 and 19
Laura Ingalls Wilder, circa 1885
Caroline and Charles Ingalls
Laura Ingalls Wilder dugout location
Surveyor's House, the first home in Dakota Territory of the Charles Ingalls family – De Smet, South Dakota
Rose Wilder Lane was an American writer and daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Along with two other female writers, Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, Lane was one of the more influential ad
Laura Ingalls Wilder
…claim; the newly married couple started their life together in a new home, north of De Smet. On December 5, 1886, Wilder gave birth to her daughter, Rose. In 1889, she gave birth to a son who died after 12 days. He had not been named and was buried in De Smet. Their first few years of marriage were…
Lane's birthplace roadside marker
Location of the Wilder homestead where Lane was born in DeSmet, South Dakota
Located a short distance from the Wilder farmhouse in Mansfield, Missouri, is the Rock House which Lane had built for her parents, who resided there during much of the 1930s