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Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Author : William Anderson
  • Presentation by : Megan Theresa Davies
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Laura’s Childhood
  • Laura was born into a big family in Pepin, Wisconsin on February 7th,1876.
  • She had 3 sisters named Mary, Carrie, and Grace.




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Her life later on
  • She became a young pioneer because family traveled a lot.
  • Laura got married the morning of August 25,1885 at Reverend Brown’s.
  • Her husband was Almanzo Mannie Wilder but she called him Manly.
  • he Smoved to De Smet to teach.
  • She became a teacher at Wilkins Elementary in the year of 1885.
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Her life in De Smet
  • She had a daughter on December 5,1886.
  • She had a son on August 10,1889 and he died later on that night.
  • Laura became a housewife and started writing stories and poems about her life.
  • She wrote about her life to remember special events she might forget.
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Her Books
  • Little House In The Big Woods
  • Little House On The Prairie
  • Farmer Boy
  • On The Banks Of Plum Creek
  • By The Shores Of Silver Lake
  • The Long Winter
  • Little Town On The Prairie
  • These Happy Golden Years
  • The First Four Years
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Almost The End
  • Rose burned the house down while heating up the oven.
  • Laura died three days after her birthday Feb.10,1957.
  • She lived to be ninety years old.
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