Rose was the first child born to Almanzo and Laura Wilder and their only surviving child. Three years after Rose was born, Laura gave birth to a baby boy. Sadly, he died just 12 days after birth, and did not have a name. Laura and Almanzo never had any other children.
An illness left Almanzo unable to walk without the use of a cane, they had to deal with severe drought, and their home and barn were destroyed by fires. After facing such a rough time, the family decided to move out of South Dakota. About a year later they moved south to Florida. But Laura did not like Florida, and the family returned to De Smet. Rose was seven years old when she and her parents moved to Missouri. They built a home and established a farm they named Rocky Ridge Farm.
Rose graduated from high school at the top of her class, but did not attend college. An archived biography from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum describes what Rose went on to accomplish in her adult life. She started off by learning telegraphy, which allowed her to begin working as a telegraph operator in Kansas City , Missouri at the age of There they established a farm and named it Rocky Ridge.
Wilder kept a journal of their experiences as they traveled. This was her first published writing. By the mids Wilder and her husband were doing little of their own farming on Rocky Ridge, which allowed her to spend most of her time writing.
Around this same time, Rose returned to Missouri, built a new home for her parents on Rocky Ridge, and moved into the old farmhouse. She also began encouraging her mother to write the story of her childhood. Wilder completed her first autobiographical work in the late s. Entitled Pioneer Girl, it was a first-person account of her childhood on the frontier from the time she was three until she reached the age of eighteen.
After Rose edited the book, Wilder submitted it to various publishers under the name Laura Ingalls Wilder. But no one was interested in her chronicle, which contained plenty of historical facts about her childhood but little in the way of character development.
Refusing to become discouraged, Wilder changed her approach. The "I" in her stories became "Laura," and the focus moved from the story of one little girl to the story of an entire family's experiences on the new frontier. Wilder also decided to direct her writing specifically at children. Although she sometimes streamlined events, created or omitted others entirely such as the birth and death of her brother , and opted for happier endings, she wrote about real people and things that had actually happened.
It told the story of her early childhood years in Wisconsin and was a huge hit with readers. Farmer Boy, an account of Manly's childhood in New York state, followed in Two years later, Little House on the Prairie appeared on the shelves. New editions of all of the "Little House" books were reissued by Harper in with the now-familiar illustrations of Garth Williams — Wilder was seventy-six years old when she finished the final book in her "Little House" series.
By that time, she and her husband had sold off the majority of their land and virtually all of their livestock, but they still lived on the remaining seventy acres of Rocky Ridge. It was there that Manly died in at the age of ninety-two. Wilder was ninety when she died at Rocky Ridge Farm on February 10, After her death, her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, edited the diary her mother had written as she and Manly traveled to Missouri, the one that had first appeared in the De Smet newspaper.
Twelve years later, a television series based on Wilder's stories debuted and ran for nine seasons. Through her engaging tales of life on the untamed American frontier, Wilder succeeded beyond her wildest dreams at taking a unique time and place of adventure, hardship, and simple pleasures and making it real to scores of young readers across the world. Anderson, William.
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography. New York: HarperCollins, Miller, John E. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, Wadsworth, Ginger. Laura Ingalls Wilder: Storyteller of the Prairie.
Minneapolis: Lerner, Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Edited by R. New York: Harper, Zochert, Donald. Chicago: Regnery, Toggle navigation. Produced her first autobiographical work By the mids Wilder and her husband were doing little of their own farming on Rocky Ridge, which allowed her to spend most of her time writing. Created the "Little House" books Refusing to become discouraged, Wilder changed her approach. For More Information Anderson, William.
User Contributions: 1. Tabitha Davis. I personally love Laura Ingalls Wilder! She is so cool! I learned so much! I love her TV shows, and her books! I am currently reading one in my LA class.
Ruth Mellott. I've been interested in Laura Ingalls Wilder since I was a girl. I read all and have all of her books and I have her tv series on Tape.
She is the reason, I myself, have become a writer. Junel Colobong. Her writings made me love her and even though im not yet alive whe she was alive i still crave her history and her biography.
I loved Laura Ingalls Wilder was my one and only famous author. This is how I found out about Laura: I had to pick one book from the library for my book report i had to check out so i told myself real quick that read what i got. I hurried and picked a book and lucky for me it looked pretty good. I read it and it was so good I looked her up on the internet. I told my mom about her and she said there was a film about her she said it was called ''Little House On The Prairie'' i was so anxious.
I read it and watched it maybe you should too. TIP: You should look for the whole movie series on Wikipedia and type in Little house on the prairie lists. What's wrong? We try to keep these pages error-free; however, there are now so many pages that it is difficult for us to catch every problem, especially regarding links to sites other than ours that may change addresses without our knowledge.
If you run across any of these, please email us , tell us the URL or the name of the page the error is on, and exactly what the problem is so we can fix it as soon as possible. I noticed that Caroline, Laura, and Rose all lost infant sons. What did these babies die of, and was it a hereditary condition? Nobody knows for sure what caused the deaths of these children, but it was probably not hereditary. Freddy seems to have died from a sudden childhood illness, as he lived for nine months and was apparently healthy until just before his death.
Laura's and Rose's babies died soon after birth. The mortality rate is higher for infant boys than it is for girls, so it is probably just coincidence that all three babies that died were boys. I heard or read that Laura's daughter Rose really wrote the Little House books. Is this true? This controversy in recent years was sparked by the publication of William Holtz's book The Ghost in the Little House.
Although no one can be absolutely certain what role Rose played in the creation of the Little House books, there is sufficient evidence to discredit Holtz's theory. A close look at the manuscripts of the books and the correspondence between Laura and Rose regarding the books indicates that Laura is indeed the true author of the Little House books. Rose definitely encouraged her mother, and was an invaluable source of help; she edited the books and offered suggestions.
It was Laura, however, who made the final decisions. Most importantly, regardless of who wrote the books, it was Laura who lived the life of the pioneer girl that Little House fans admire and love so dearly.
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