Left-visitors can see Pa's Fiddle in the museum in Mansfield.
Courtesy Donald Zochert

"Pa's fiddle was so much a part of the Little House Books that it was almost a character in those stories. Like most fiddlers of his time, Pa Ingalls was probably self-taught as a musician. No one in the family thought to ask him how he acquired his fiddle on the frontier...On each move west, the fiddle was carefully packed among the quilts for safe keeping..."
Courtesy William Anderson
"Musical Memories of Laura Ingalls Wilder"

Pa's fiddle was made in Germany around 1850.

"I wanted children now to understand more about the beginnings of things...what it is that made America as they know it."
Laura Ingalls Wilder

This is Rocky Ridge Farm in Missouri
The home where the "Little House" books were written

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Pictures here from the Laura Ingalls Wilder Traveling Museum

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A manuscript for a ninth book entitled, The First Four Years, was found among Laura's papers after her death and was published in 1971.

A diary detailing Laura's long trip to her new home in the Ozarks was published in 1962 and is entitled "On The Way Home." A final book, entitled "West from Home," contains letters Laura wrote to Almanzo while visiting their daughter, Rose, in San Fransico in 1915. It was published in 1974.

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