Explore the real Ingalls family: Charles and Caroline, their five children, the long journey from Wisconsin to De Smet, and how Laura turned their lives into the Little House books.
Almanzo Wilder is often introduced as Laura Ingalls Wilder’s husband. Yet his own life stretched from a farm in northern New York to a homestead in Dakota Territory and, finally, a lasting home in the Missouri Ozarks. He was a farmer and father whose childhood memories became Farmer Boy, and whose adult years included illness,…
Long before Laura Ingalls Wilder became a familiar name on bookshelves, she was a daughter, teacher, farmer, wife, and mother. Her life crossed a remarkable span of American history, from a Wisconsin log cabin in 1867 to the middle of the twentieth century. The photographs that survive bring us closer to the woman behind the…
