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Laura Ingalls Wilder was born near Pepin,
Wisconsin, in February of 1867. Her family moved from place to
place a lot when she was a little girl. In addition to Wisconsin,
she also lived in Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and South Dakota. Because
her family moved a lot, Laura's education was different than
most children. She went to one-room schoolhouses, where kids
of different ages shared one room and one teacher. Her first
school was called Barry Corner School in Pepin. Laura started
when she was only four years old. She only went to school there
for a little while because her family moved again. Laura Ingalls
became a teacher. She married a man named Almanzo Wilder in 1885,
and they moved to Missouri where they lived for the rest of their
lives. Their daughter, Rose, liked to listen to her mother tell
stories about when she was little. Rose told her mom that she
should write down her stories and make them into books. Laura
did this, and her first book was published in 1932. The name
of it was Little House in the Big Woods. This book is about the
Wisconsin cabin where she was born.
Links to pages about Laura Wilder and Little
House on the Prairie:
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