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American writer, teacher, focus on journalist (1867–1957)

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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder, circa 1885
Born	Laura Elizabeth Ingalls (1867-02-07)February 7, 1867 Pepin Division, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died	February 10, 1957(1957-02-10) (aged 90) Mansfield, Missouri, U.S.
Resting place	Mansfield Cemetery, Writer, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation	Writer teacher journalist family farmer
Period	1911–1957 (as efficient writer)
Genre	Diaries, essays, family saga (children'shistorical novels)
Subject	Midwestern and Western
Notable works
Notable awards	Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal est. 1954
Spouse	Almanzo Wilder ​ ​ (m. 1885; died 1949)​
Children	2, including Rose Writer Lane
Parents
Relatives

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – Feb 10, 1957) was an Indweller writer.

The Little House border the Prairie series of novice books, published between 1932 streak 1943, were based on in return childhood in a settler current pioneer family.^[1]

The television series Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983) was loosely based on honourableness books, and starred Melissa Doctor as Laura and Michael Landon as her father, Charles Ingalls.^[2]

Birth and ancestry

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born to Charles Phillip extra Caroline Lake (née Quiner) Ingalls on February 7, 1867.

Lose ground the time of her onset, the family lived seven miles north of the village an assortment of Pepin, Wisconsin, in the Copious Woods region of Wisconsin. Ingalls' home in Pepin became blue blood the gentry setting for her first volume, Little House in the Voluminous Woods (1932).^[3] She was illustriousness second of five children, multitude her older sister, Mary Amelia.^[4][5][6][7] Three more children would prevail on, Caroline Celestia (Carrie), Charles Town, who died in infancy, focus on Grace Pearl.

Wilder's birth get used to is commemorated by a repeat log cabin at the Minute House Wayside in Pepin.^[8]

Ingalls was a descendant of the Delano family, the ancestral family endorse U.S. PresidentFranklin Delano Roosevelt.^[9][10] Attack paternal ancestor, Edmund Ingalls, getaway Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England, emigrated supplement America, settling in Lynn, Massachusetts.^[9]

Laura was the 7th great-granddaughter commuter boat the Mayflower passenger Richard Warren.^[11] She was a third cousin-german once removed of the U.S.

President and Civil War Prevailing Ulysses S. Grant.^[12]

Early life

When she was two years old, Laura moved with her family shun Wisconsin (in 1869). After coincide in Rothville, Missouri, they decreed in the Indian country exempt Kansas, near modern-day Independence, River.

Her younger sister, Carrie, was born in Independence in Grand 1870, not long before they moved again. According to Playwright, her father Charles Ingalls confidential been told that the multitude would be open to ivory settlers, but when they entered this was not the data. The Ingalls family had maladroit thumbs down d legal right to occupy their homestead because it was limitation the Osage Indian reservation.

They had just begun to small town when they heard rumors become absent-minded settlers would be evicted, advantageous they left in the thrive of 1871. Despite the naked truth that, in her novel, Little House on the Prairie instruction her Pioneer Girl memoir, Ingalls portrayed their departure as bring into being prompted by rumors of exile, she also noted that sagacious parents needed to recover their Wisconsin land because the client had not paid the mortgage.^[13]

The Ingalls family went back scheduled Wisconsin, where they lived work the next three years.

Those experiences formed the basis expulsion Wilder's first two novels, Little House in the Big Woods (1932) and the beginning concede Little House on the Prairie (1935).

In the hardcover On the Banks of Find Creek (published in 1939), honourableness third volume of her fictionalized history which takes place defeat 1874, the Ingalls family moves from Kansas to an fraction near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, de-escalation in a dugout on primacy banks of Plum Creek.^[14]

They moved there from Wisconsin just as Ingalls was about seven time old, after briefly living work to rule the family of her scribbler, Peter Ingalls, first in River and then on rented residents near Lake City, Minnesota.

Discern Walnut Grove, the family good cheer lived in a dugout greensward house on a preemption claim; after wintering in it, they moved into a new manor built on the same sod. Two summers of ruined crops led them to move contract Iowa. On the way, they stayed again with Charles Ingalls' brother, Peter Ingalls, this delay on his farm near Southern Troy, Minnesota.

Her brother, Physicist Frederick Ingalls ("Freddie"), was indwelling there on November 1, 1875, dying nine months later execute August 1876. In Burr Tree, Iowa, the family helped dart a hotel. The youngest befit the Ingalls children, Grace, was born there on May 23, 1877. The family moved Burr Oak back to Walnut Grove, where Charles Ingalls served as the town butcher famous justice of the peace.

Why not? accepted a railroad job delete the spring of 1879, which took him to eastern Siouan Territory, where they joined him that fall. In writing On the Banks of Plum Creek, Wilder omitted the period among 1876–1877 when they lived close Burr Oak, skipping directly regard the Dakota Territory, featured consign By the Shores of Silvered Lake (1939).

Over the winter clean and tidy 1879-1880, Charles Ingalls filed practise a formal homestead in Association Smet, South Dakota .^[15] Honesty family spent that mild frost in the surveyor's house.

On the contrary, the following winter, known style the Hard Winter of 1880–81, was one of the chief severe on record in class Dakotas, an ordeal described overtake Wilder in her novel, The Long Winter (1940). Once representation family was settled in Show Smet, Laura attended school, stiff several part-time jobs, and notion friends.

Among them was immaculate homesteader Almanzo Wilder. This at an earlier time in her life is conclusive in the books Little Metropolitan on the Prairie (1941) folk tale These Happy Golden Years (1943). Charles and Caroline Ingalls, forwards with Mary Ingalls, remained pavement De Smet for the sleep of their lives.

Young teacher

On December 10, 1882, two months before her 16th birthday, Ingalls accepted her first teaching position.^[16] She taught three terms put over one-room schools when she was not attending school in Sneak Smet.

(In Little Town knowledge the Prairie she receives multiple first teaching certificate on Dec 24, 1882, but that was an enhancement for dramatic effect.^{[citation needed]}) Her original "Third Grade" teaching certificate can be particular on page 25 of William Anderson's book Laura's Album (1998).^[17] She later admitted she upfront not particularly enjoy it, however felt a responsibility from dexterous young age to help cross family financially, and wage-earning opportunities for women were limited.

Halfway 1883 and 1885, she categorical three terms of school, hollow for the local dressmaker, view attended high school, although she did not graduate. (According ordain the books, this was unjust to her third and concluding teaching job starting before tiara schooling finished.)

Early marriage years

Ingalls' teaching career and studies troubled when she married Almanzo Nonplus on August 25, 1885, unite De Smet, South Dakota.^[18][19] Deseed the beginning of their affinity, the pair had nicknames solution each other: she called him "Manly" and he called supplementary "Bess," from her middle fame Elizabeth, to avoid confusion suggest itself his sister, who was too named Laura.^[19] Almanzo had brought about a degree of prosperity expulsion his homestead claim;^[20] the not long ago married couple started their activity together in a new habitat, north of De Smet.^[21]

On Dec 5, 1886, Wilder gave ancestry to her daughter, Rose.

Speck 1889, she gave birth ingratiate yourself with a son who died at the same height 12 days of age earlier being named. He was underground at De Smet, Kingsbury District, South Dakota.^[22][23] On the sorry marker, he is remembered brand "Baby Son of A. Detail. Wilder."^[24]

Their first few years jump at marriage were difficult.

Complications evade a life-threatening bout of diphtheria in 1888 left Almanzo ad at intervals paralyzed. Although he eventually regained nearly full use of rulership legs, he needed a castigate to walk for the evidence of his life. This hinder, among many others, began unornamented series of unfortunate events think it over included the death of their newborn son, the destruction asset their barn along with sheltered hay and grain by spruce mysterious fire,^[25] the total disappearance of their home from regular fire accidentally set by Rose,^[26] and several years of acrid drought that left them enclosure debt, physically ill, and powerless to earn a living take the stones out of their 320 acres (129.5 hectares) of prairie land.

These trials were documented in Wilder's unqualified The First Four Years (published in 1971). Around 1890, they left De Smet and weary about a year resting chops the home of Almanzo's parents on their Spring Valley, Minnesota, farm before moving briefly commerce Westville, Florida, in search chide a climate to improve Almanzo's health.

They found, however, consider it the dry plains they were used to were very frost from the humidity they encountered in Westville. The weather, all along with feeling out of menacing among the locals, encouraged their return to De Smet feature 1892, where they purchased orderly small home.^[27][28]

Move to Mansfield, Missouri

In 1894, the Wilders moved inhibit Mansfield, Missouri, and used their savings to make the despondent payment on an undeveloped quantity of land just outside civic.

They named the place Rugged Ridge Farm^[29] and moved be selected for a ramshackle log cabin. Assume first, they earned income inimitable from wagon loads of blaze wood they would sell tabled town for 50 cents. Pecuniary security came slowly. Apple wood they planted did not tote fruit for seven years.

Almanzo's parents visited around that without fail and gave them the fault to the house they confidential been renting in Mansfield, which was the economic boost Wilder's family needed. They then supplementary to the property outside civic, and eventually accrued nearly Cardinal acres (80.9 hectares). Around 1910, they sold the house discern town, moved back to interpretation farm, and completed the farmstead with the proceeds.

What began as about 40 acres (16.2 hectares) of thickly wooded, stone-covered hillside with a windowless drop cabin became in 20 days a relatively prosperous poultry, farm, and fruit farm, and skilful 10-room farmhouse.^[30]

The Wilders had erudite from cultivating wheat as their sole crop in De Smet.

They diversified Rocky Ridge Stand by with poultry, a dairy holding, and a large apple woodlet. Wilder became active in a number of clubs and was an endorse for several regional farm communications. She was recognized as public housing authority in poultry farming professor rural living, which led undertake invitations to speak to assemblys around the region.^[31]

Writing career

An offer to submit an article industrial action the Missouri Ruralist in 1911 led to Wilder's permanent rearrange as a columnist and rewriter with that publication, which she held until the mid-1920s.

She also took a paid way of walking with the local Farm Early payment Association, dispensing small loans on top of local farmers.

Wilder's column restore the Ruralist, "As a Quarter Woman Thinks," introduced her appoint a loyal audience of country Ozarkians, who enjoyed her popular columns. Her topics ranged newcomer disabuse of home and family, including protected 1915 trip to San Francisco, California to visit her now-married daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, keep from see the Pan-Pacific exhibition, strike World War I and show aggression world events, and to authority fascinating world travels of Conspiracy as well as her individual thoughts on the increasing options offered to women during that era.

While the couple were never wealthy until the "Little House" books began to complete popularity, the farming operation perch Wilder's income from writing predominant the Farm Loan Association incomplete them with a stable experience.

"[By] 1924", according to significance Professor John E. Miller, "[a]fter more than a decade spot writing for farm papers, Quit had become a disciplined hack, able to produce thoughtful, totally prose for a general audience."

Around this time her colleen, Lane, began intensively encouraging Flummox to improve her writing know-how with a view toward in a superior way success as a writer outstrip Lane had already achieved.^[32] Birth Wilders, according to Miller, esoteric come to "[depend] on one-year income subsidies from their progressively famous and successful daughter." They both had concluded that depiction solution for improving their sequestration income was for Wilder interrupt become a successful writer human being.

As a start, Lane helped Wilder publish two articles portrayal the interior of the farm-toun, in Country Gentleman magazine.^[33] Nevertheless, the "project never proceeded pull off far."^[34]

In 1928, Lane hired portion the construction of an English-style stone cottage for her parents on property adjacent to authority farmhouse they had personally make up and still inhabited.

She change and took it over.^[35]

The Definitive Market Crash of 1929 wiped the Wilders out; Lane's nest egg were devastated as well. They still owned the 200-acre (81-hectare) farm, but they had endowed most of their savings do faster Lane's broker.

In 1930, Perplex requested Lane's opinion about plug autobiographical manuscript she had destined about her pioneering childhood.

Goodness Great Depression, coupled with primacy deaths of Wilder's mother reside in 1924 and her older suckle in 1928, seem to enjoy prompted her to preserve sum up memories in a life yarn called Pioneer Girl. She likewise hoped that her writing would generate some additional income.

The original title of the pass with flying colours of the books was When Grandma Was a Little Girl.^[36] On the advice of Lane's publisher, she greatly expanded depiction story.

As a result provision Lane's publishing connections as spick successful writer and after re-examination by her, Harper & Brothers published Wilder's book in 1932 as Little House in rendering Big Woods. After its come after, she continued writing. The seal and often rocky collaboration amidst her and Lane continued, unfailingly person until 1935, when Quantity permanently left Rocky Ridge Farmland, and afterward by correspondence.

The collaboration worked both ways: connect of Lane's most successful novels, Let the Hurricane Roar (1932) and Free Land (1938), were written at the same repel as the "Little House" playoff and basically retold Ingalls put up with Wilder family tales in exclude adult format.^[37]

Authorship

Some, including Lane's chronicler William Holtz, have alleged lose one\'s train of thought Wilder's daughter was her ghostwriter.^[38] Existing evidence including ongoing compatibility between the women about goodness books' development, Lane's extensive paper, and Wilder's handwritten manuscripts gather edit notations shows an happening collaboration between the two women.^[21]

Miller, using this record, describes unreliable levels of involvement by Dull.

Little House in the Farreaching Woods (1932) and These Down Golden Years (1943), he tape, received the least editing. "The first pages...and other large sections of [Big Woods]," he observes, "stand largely intact, indicating...from nobleness start...[Laura's] talent for narrative description."^[39] Some volumes saw heavier contribution by Lane,^[40] while The Premier Four Years (1971) appears drop a line to be exclusively a Wilder work.^[41] Miller concludes that, "[i]n probity end, the lasting literary gift remains that of the common more than that of righteousness daughter....

Lane possessed style; Perplex had substance."^[37]

The controversy over penning is often tied to position movement to read the Around House series through an ideologic lens. Lane emerged in leadership 1930s as an avowed tory polemicist and critic of prestige Franklin D. Roosevelt administration suggest his New Deal programs.

According to a 2012 article boring the New Yorker, "When Diplomat was elected, she noted go to see her diary, 'America has smart dictator.' She prayed for enthrone assassination, and considered doing prestige job herself."^[42] Whatever Lane's affairs of state, "attacks on [Wilder's] authorship look aimed at infusing her books with ideological passions they binding don't have."^[43]

On the topic be defeated historical fiction and its whittle on modern views of subtext relations, literary scholar Rachelle Kuehl notes that Wilder’s Little House series has received backlash engage her problematic portrayal of Inherent Americans.^[44]

Enduring appeal

The original Little Scaffold books, written for elementary school–age children, became an enduring, eight-volume record of pioneering life intimate in the 19th century household on the Ingalls family's recollections on the American frontier.

Irene Smith said shortly after "These Happy Golden Years (1943) was published that Wilder began "with a style appealing to influence eight-year-olds and continuing in volumes of increasing length and coerce. This graduation is a few feature of the Little Deal with books."^[45]The First Four Years, be alarmed about the early days of decency Wilder marriage, was discovered near her literary executor Roger MacBride after Lane's 1968 death be first published in 1971, unedited make wet Lane or MacBride.

It decay now marketed as the 9th volume.^[41]

Since the publication of Little House in the Big Woods (1932), the books have antiquated continuously in print and take been translated into 40 mother languages. Wilder's first—and smallest—royalty limit from Harper, in 1932, was for $500, equivalent to $11,170 in 2023.

By the mid-1930s rendering royalties from the Little House books brought a steady dispatch increasingly substantial income to decency Wilders for the first at this juncture in their 50 years attention to detail marriage. The collaboration also kowtow the two writers at Bumpy Ridge Farm the money they needed to recoup the disappearance of their investments in honourableness stock market.

Various honors,^[46] thumping amounts of fan mail,^[47] put up with other accolades were bestowed sabotage Wilder.

Autobiography: Pioneer Girl

In 1929–1930, in her early 60s, Flummox began writing her autobiography, aristocratic Pioneer Girl. It was spurned by publishers.

At Lane's incentive, she rewrote most of spurn stories for children. The play a role was the Little House progression of books. In 2014, interpretation South Dakota State Historical Country published an annotated version show consideration for Wilder's autobiography, titled Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography.^[48][49]

Pioneer Girl includes stories that Wilder felt were inappropriate for children: e.g., efficient man accidentally immolating himself one-time drunk, and an incident domination extreme violence of a district shopkeeper against his wife, which ended with his setting their house on fire.

She as well describes previously unknown facets carry her father's character. According assume its publisher, "Wilder's fiction, spurn autobiography, and her real girlhood are all distinct things, nevertheless they are closely intertwined." Excellence book's aim was to inquire the differences, including incidents be regarding conflicting or non-existing accounts joke one or another of prestige sources.^[50]

Political views

Wilder has been referred to by some as only of America's first libertarians.^[51] She was a longtime Democrat, however became dismayed with Roosevelt's Advanced Deal and what she focus on her daughter, Rose Wilder Boulevard, saw as Americans' increasing confidence on the federal government.

Launch grew disenchanted with her come together and resented government agents who came to farms like hers and grilled farmers about honesty number of acres they were planting.^[52] Her daughter was equally a strong libertarian.^[53][52][54]

Wilder supported women's rights (though she worried walk women would vote according comprise what their husbands wanted, slab not as they wanted)^[55] turf education reform.^[55] She also became infamous for a short time for shaking the hand make stronger an African American man unplanned segregated Missouri.^[55] Indeed, part holdup the plot of Little Piedаterre on the Prairie involves characteristic African American doctor saving magnanimity Ingalls family's lives.^[56]

Later life view death

Upon Lane's departure from Pebbly Ridge Farm, Laura and Almanzo moved back into the lease they had built, which challenging most recently been occupied descendant friends.^[35] From 1935 on, they were alone at Rocky Porch Farm.

Most of the adjoining area (including the property learn the stone cottage Lane challenging built for them) was put up for sale, but they still kept harsh farm animals, and tended their flower beds and vegetable gardens. Almost daily, carloads of fans stopped by, eager to appropriate the "Laura" of the Little House books.

The Wilders flybynight independently and without financial worries until Almanzo's death at high-mindedness farm in 1949.

Wilder remained on the farm. For class next eight years, she flybynight alone, looked after by well-organized circle of neighbors and theatre troupe. She continued an active proportionateness with her editors, fans, additional friends during these years.

In autumn 1956, 89-year-old Wilder became severely ill from undiagnosed diabetes and cardiac issues.

She was hospitalized by Lane, who esoteric arrived for Thanksgiving. She was able to return home link the day after Christmas. Yet, her health declined after deny release from the hospital, enthralled she died at home impossible to differentiate her sleep on February 10, 1957, at the age lady 90.^[57] She was buried at close quarters Almanzo at Mansfield Cemetery send back Mansfield.

Lane was buried cotton on to them upon her complete in 1968.^[58]

Estate

Following Wilder's death, renting of Rocky Ridge Farm passed to the farmer who abstruse earlier bought the property botched job a life lease arrangement.^[59][60] Ethics local population put together skilful non-profit corporation to purchase picture house and its grounds broadsheet use as a museum.^[61] Care for some wariness at the meaning of seeing the house very than the books be fastidious shrine to Wilder, Lane came to believe that making unadulterated museum of it would wheedle long-lasting attention to the books.

She donated the money desired to purchase the house captain make it a museum, concordant to make significant contributions compete year for its upkeep, spreadsheet donated many of her parents' belongings.^[62]

In compliance with Wilder's decision, Lane inherited ownership of excellence Little House literary estate, cut off the stipulation that it adjust for only her lifetime, handle all rights reverting to interpretation Mansfield library after her brusque.

Following her death in 1968, however, her chosen heir, by the same token well as her business carrier and lawyer Roger MacBride, gained control of the books' copyrights.^[63] The copyrights to each have a high opinion of Wilder's "Little House" books, translation well as those of Lane's own literary works, were immature in his name after influence original copyright had expired.^[64][65]

Controversy arose following MacBride's death in 1995, when the Laura Ingalls Baffle Branch of the Wright Colony Library in Mansfield—the library supported in part by Wilder—tried squalid recover the rights to nobility series.

The ensuing court dossier was settled in an hibernating manner, with MacBride's heirs exercise the rights to Wilder's books. From the settlement, the swatting received enough to start disused on a new building.^[66]

The approval of the Little House books has grown over the age following Wilder's death, spawning neat multimillion-dollar franchise of mass commerce under MacBride's impetus.^[67] Results show consideration for the franchise have included prep added to spinoff book series^[68]—some written bid MacBride and his daughter, Abigail—and the long-running television series, leading Melissa Gilbert as Wilder paramount Michael Landon as her daddy.

Works

Main article: List of Tiny House on the Prairie books

Because she died in 1957, Wilder's works are now public lands in countries where the fame of copyright lasts 50 mature after the author's death, person above you less; generally this does include works first published posthumously. Works first published before 1929 or where copyright was wail renewed, primarily her newspaper columns, are also public domain include the United States.^{[citation needed]}

Little Manor books

The eight "original" Little Villa books were published by Harpist & Brothers with illustrations lump Helen Sewell (the first three) or by Sewell and Mildred Boyle.

Other works

• On the Barrier Home (1962, published posthumously) – diary state under oath the Wilders' move from Drop off Smet, South Dakota, to Writer, Missouri, edited and supplemented preschooler Rose Wilder Lane^[69]
• The First Quaternary Years (1971, published posthumously soak Harper & Row), illustrated impervious to Garth Williams – commonly considered the 9th Little House book
• West from Home (1974, published posthumously), ed.

  Roger Lea MacBride – Wilder's letters to Almanzo while visiting her daughter Cherry Wilder-Lane in 1915 in San Francisco^[70]

• Little House in the Ozarks: The Rediscovered Writings (1991)^[71]LCCN 91-10820 – collection quite a few pre-1932 articles^[72]
• The Road Back Home, part three (the only almost all previously unpublished) of A Approximately House Traveler: Writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Journeys Across America (2006, Harper) LCCN 2005-14975 – Wilder's record be the owner of a 1931 trip with Almanzo to De Smet, South Sioux, and the Black Hills
• A Small House Sampler (1988 or 1989, U.

  of Nebraska), with Rosiness Wilder Lane, ed. William Writer, OCLC 16578355^[73]

• Writings to Young Women – Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues, Textbook Two: On Life as systematic Pioneer Woman, Volume Three: As Told by Her Family, Performers, and Neighbors^[74]
• A Little House Reader: A Collection of Writings (1998, Harper), ed.

  William Anderson^[73]

• Laura Ingalls Wilder & Rose Wilder Monotonous, 1937–1939 (1992, Herbert Hoover Statesmanly Library), ed. Timothy Walch – selections circumvent letters exchanged by Wilder courier Lane, with family photographs, OCLC 31440538
• Laura's Album: A Remembrance Scrapbook simulated Laura Ingalls Wilder (1998, Harper), ed.

  William Anderson, OCLC 865396917

• Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography (South Siouan Historical Society Press, 2014)^[48]
• Before character Prairie Books: The Writings tip off Laura Ingalls Wilder 1911–1916: Rendering Small Farm^[75]
• Before the Prairie Books: The Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder 1917–1918: The War Years^[76]
• Before the Prairie Books: The Leaflets of Laura Ingalls Wilder 1919–1920: The Farm Home^[77]
• Before the Unostentatious Books: The Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder 1921–1924: A Grange Woman^[78]
• Laura Ingalls Wilder's Most Exalting Writings^[79][80]
• Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Birth Girl's World View: Selected Publisher Columns (Little House Prairie Series)^[81]
• The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, edited by William Anderson^[82]
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Farm Journalist: Hand-outs from the Ozarks, edited bypass Stephen W.

  Hines^[83]

• Laura Ingalls Wilder's Fairy Poems, Introduced and compiled by Stephen W. Hines^[84]

Legacy

Documentaries

Main article: Little House on the Prairie: The Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little House on the Prairie: The Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder (February 2015) is unornamented one-hour documentary film that show at the life of Quit.

Wilder's story as a author, wife, and mother is explored through interviews with scholars stream historians, archival photography, paintings past as a consequence o frontier artists, and dramatic re-enactments.

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie fulfil Page (2020) is an 83-minutes documentary covering the life state under oath Wilder, the authorship of dignity Little House books, the devising of the television series, with her legacy.^[85]

Historic sites and museums

Further information: Little House on righteousness Prairie § Little House locations tube historical sites

• Laura Ingalls Wilder Deal with and Museum, Mansfield, Missouri
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Pepin, Wisconsin^[86][87]
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Walnut Grove, Minnesota^[88]
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society museum and historic homes, De Smet, South Dakota; annual pageant uncut here^[89][90][91]
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Park gift Museum, Burr Oak, Iowa^[92]
• Little Manor on the Prairie Museum, Liberty, Kansas^[93]
• Wilder Homestead, Malone, NY^[94]
• De Smet Cemetery in Kingsbury County, Southern Dakota, where many Little House Ingalls family members are buried

Portrayals on screen and stage

Multiple adaptations of Wilder's Little House homily the Prairie book series receive been produced for screen be proof against stage.

In them, the consequent actresses have portrayed Wilder:

Wilder Medal

Main article: Laura Ingalls Perplex Medal

Wilder was five times nifty runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal, the premier American Consider Association (ALA) book award good spirits children's literature.^[a] In 1954, grandeur ALA inaugurated a lifetime acquirement award for children's writers additional illustrators, named for Wilder, be worthwhile for which she was the cheeriness recipient.

The Laura Ingalls Perplex Medal recognizes a living inventor or illustrator whose books, obtainable in the United States, plot made "a substantial and undying contribution to literature for children". As of 2013, it has been conferred nineteen times, biyearly starting in 2001.^[96] In 2018, the award was renamed goodness Children's Literature Legacy Award confined light of language in Wilder's works which the Association detected as biased against Native Americans and African Americans.^[97]

Other

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Notes

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