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Of Laura Ingalls WilderLaura Elizabeth Ingalls at age 17A Little History...
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Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on February 7, 1867 in the "Big Woods" of Wisconsin. She experienced the last wave of the pioneer movement as she traveled with her family by covered wagon through Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, and the Dakota Territory where she married Almanzo Wilder. The couple and their only child, Rose, settled in Mansfield, Missouri in 1894. It was there, in her later years, that Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote the famous "Little House Books."
Millions of fans around the world have purchased books written by Laura Ingalls Wilder since they were first published in the 1930's and 1940's.
Both children and adults today continue to love Laura and her sentimental first-hand account of family life in pioneer times. Laura's sister, Mary, once said, "You make pictures when you talk, Laura."
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During the course of her young life, Laura Ingalls Wilder was greatly influenced by music lovingly played on Pa's Fiddle. The songs played by Pa and sang by Laura and her family spoke of many things: love, hope, family and faith in God. Laura said,
"Whatever religion, romance, and patriotism I have,
I owe largely to the violin and Pa playing in the twilight."
"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..." Pa's fiddle was made in Germany around 1850. BOOKS WRITTEN
Little House In The Big Woods (1932)Click here for lyrics and audio Farmer Boy (1933)Click here for lyrics and audio Little House On The Prairie (1935)Click here for lyrics and audio On The Banks of Plum Creek (1937)Click here for lyrics and audio By The Shores of Silver Lake (1939)Click here for lyrics and audio The Long Winter (1940)Click here for lyrics and audio Little Town On The Praire (1941)Click here for lyrics and audio These Happy Golden Years (1943)Click here for lyrics and audio
Left-visitors can see Pa's Fiddle in the museum in Mansfield.
Courtesy Donald Zochert
Courtesy William Anderson
"Musical Memories of Laura Ingalls Wilder"
"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
Click here for addresses of Laura Ingalls Wilder sites you can visitPictures here from the Laura Ingalls Wilder Traveling MuseumClick here for other Laura Ingalls Wilder websites you can visit"These were family stories and I believed that they should be preserved," Laura explained. "They were altogether too good to be lost..."
BY LAURA INGALLS WILDER INCLUDE:
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. Laura Ingalls Wilder Click here to learn about tv's Almanzo Wilder: My Dean Butler Homepage! Click here to learn more about Little House's Doc Baker, Kevin Hagen!Click here to visit My Billy Joel (The Piano Man!!!) Homepage! Click here to learn more about Breast Cancer Awareness-My Mother's RECNAC page Click here to appear on a special page as a "Friend of Laura Ingalls Wilder"
"It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong."Click here for My Little House Quote Of The Month
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