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A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65, Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed her frontier childhood into the best-selling “Little House” series. Wilder’s stories ...
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s stories are not a cautionary tale. They are stories of the deep family connections that made America what she was—and can be again.
Laura, as a 12 year old, thought it was a huge house when in fact, it’s a very small house, but she had been living in dugouts and one room shanties,” former Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial ...
Many continued west but some decided to stay. A 10 x 12 dirt dugout is a replica of Laura Ingalls' first home in Walnut Grove. It's one of 10 buildings at the museum named after her.
Little House On The Prairie wouldn’t exist without Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author who shared her experience growing up in the American Midwest in the late 1800s. And as the protagonist of the ...
I trust her.” In light of that, PBS’ new 90-minute documentary “American Masters — Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page” comes at an ideal time.
The casting search for the upcoming Netflix series Little House on the Prairie has officially begun. Based on the American children's novels by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the modern reboot describes ...
Laura Ingalls Wilder's life and legacy will be explored in iHeartPodcasts' new eight-part series Wilder, set to debut June 8 at Tribeca Festival.
All donations to the museum are tax deductible. They can be mailed to Laura Ingalls Wilder Park & Museum, 3603 236th Ave., Burr Oak, IA 52101. For more information, go to lauraingallswilder.us.
Homesteaders started arriving to the De Smet area in 1879. “It was named after Father De Smet, who was a Jesuit priest,” Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society executive director Mary Jo Wertz ...