My Girl Hero Laura Ingalls Wilder is one of my favorite writers, not just because her
stories are so interesting to read but because many of the events she describes really happened
to her.
Laura Ingalls was born on February 7, 1867 just outside of the little village of Pepin,
Wisconsin.
She was the second oldest of her parent's four surviving children, all of which were
girls.
Laura's parents were pioneers heading west, just one of thousands of families encouraged
by the US government to set up homesteads on lands that had belonged to Native American
tribes.
So, through most of her childhood, her family moved A LOT.
Beginning in Wisconsin, they moved to Missouri,
then Kansas, then back to Wisconsin,
then Minnesota, then Iowa,
then back to Minnesota, then to the Dakota Territories
Then they finally settled down in South Dakota.
Phew!
You practically need an app to keep up.
When she was 18, Laura Ingalls married Almanzo Wilder.
When they first settled down, the future looked promising but her life grew hard.
Almanzo became ill, family deaths and terrible fires took their toll and the young family's
finances began to fail.
So once again in Laura's life, she went on the move.
Laura, Almanzo and their daughter, Rose, finally settled in Mansfield, Missouri and this is
where her writing career began.
Laura worked as a writer and editor for a local newspaper and developed a loyal readership
who enjoyed her stories of home and family life, travel adventures and the expanding
options for women of the times.
At the same time, Rose, now grown-up and travelling the world had become a well known writer on
her own.
Rose encouraged her mother to expand on the stories she had already begun work on based
on her pioneer childhood but it wasn't until the legendary stock market crash in 1928 that
publishing the stories became urgent.
You see, Laura and her husband lost most of their money at the beginning of the Great
Depression.
Millions of people were out of work, farms were drying up and times were bad for everyone.
With Rose's experience in publishing, Laura was able to quickly improve her stories and
find a publisher.
And I am am so glad she did.
I love the Little House books and so do millions of others around the world.
Ever since the her first book, Little House in the Big Woods, was published in 1932, Laura's
books have never stopped being printed and have been translated into 40 languages.
Laura Ingalls Wilder lived to the grand old age of 90 but she will forever live on in
my imagination as little Laura Ingalls.
Thank you, Laura!
Ready for my special bonus facts?
In the books, Laura has a rag doll named, Charlotte, but did you know that in real life
Laura Ingalls' doll was really called Roxy and was hand-made from scraps of material,
yarn for hair and black beads for her eyes.
A hand made fabric doll was a treasured gift for a poor pioneer girl since all of her older
dolls would have been made from corn husks.
And did you also know that Corn Husk dolls originally came from a Native American tradition
and had blank faces?
One legend for the blank face is that the Spirit of Corn made a doll out of her husks
to entertain children but the doll's face was so beautiful that she she spent less and
less time entertaining kids and more time thinking about her own beauty.
To stop her, the doll's face was taken away.
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