Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867–1957)
Creator:
Kathryn R. Goetz
Bibliography
Miller, John E. Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman behind the Legend. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1998.
Romines, Ann. Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
Zochert, Donald. Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1976.
Chronology
1867
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls is born on February 7 near Pepin, Wisconsin.
1868
The Ingalls family leaves Wisconsin and settles in Missouri before moving on to southern Kansas.
1870
The Ingalls family returns to Wisconsin after being removed from Kansas territory held by the Osage.
1874
The Ingalls family moves to a sod house outside Walnut Grove, Minnesota.
1876
Following the devastating effects of Minnesota's grasshopper plagues, the Ingalls family leaves Walnut Grove and moves to Burr Oak, Iowa, to help manage a hotel.
1878
The Ingalls family returns to Walnut Grove.
1879
Charles Ingalls takes a job with the railroad and moves the family west to Dakota Territory.
1885
Laura Ingalls marries Almanzo Wilder on August 25.
1890
Laura and Almanzo Wilder, along with daughter Rose, move to Spring Valley to live with Almanzo's parents.
1894
The Wilders move to a farm outside Mansfield, Missouri.
1912
Laura Ingalls Wilder is made the home column editor of the Missouri Ruralist.
1932
Harper and Brothers publishes Little House in the Big Woods.
1937
On the Banks of Plum Creek, a fictionalized account of Wilder's childhood in Walnut Grove, is published. It wins a Newberry Honor the following year.
1949
Almanzo Wilder dies in Mansfield, Missouri.
1957
Laura Ingalls Wilder dies on February 10, three days after her ninetieth birthday.
Bibliography
Miller, John E. Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman behind the Legend. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1998.
Romines, Ann. Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
Zochert, Donald. Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1976.