Laura Ingalls Wilder website

Hello everyone!  Welcome to the Laura Ingalls Wilder website!  At this website you can learn and explore Laura Ingalls Wilder's life and her books!

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American author who wrote the Little House Series of books based on her life in a pioneer family.  

The basic facts on Laura Ingalls Wilder:

Full name: Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder

DOB: Feb. 7, 1867

Place of Birth: Pepin, Wisconsin

Parents: Charles Phillip Ingalls-Pa, Caroline Lake Quiner-Ma

Sibilings: Mary Amelia Ingalls (Older), Caroline Celesta Ingalls Swanzy (Carrie, younger sister), Charles Fredrick Ingalls (died nine monthes after birth), and Grace Pearl (Ingalls) Dow.

Laura's childhood pets: Jack the bulldog, Kitty (a cat), Bunny (a pony), and Black Susan(a cat.)

Spouse(s): Almanzo James Wilder (Feb. 1857)

Children: Rose Wilder Lane, a baby boy that died shortly after birth.

Places Laura lived: Pepin, Wisconsin, Independence, Kansas, Pepin,Wisconsin, Walnut Grove, Minnesota, Burr Oak, Iowa,Walnut Grove, Minnesota, De Smet, South Dakota, and last Mansfield, Missouri.

Occupations: Farmer, teacher, author, and  temporary seamstress.

Death Date: Feb. 10, 1957 in Mansfield, Missouri of old age she lived to be 90.

Books in the Little House Series:

Little House in the Big Woods

Farmer Boy

Little House on the Prairie

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 (published after Laura's death)

If you would like to buy the Little House Series you can check out these websites:

http://www.amazon.com/

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/

http://www.half.ebay.com/

http://www.bookfinder.com/

http://www.booksamillion.com/

We would like to note that this website is not totally complete but I will be soon if you visit back in about 2-3 days this website will be finished.  Thank You. 

-Laura Ingalls Wilder website staff.