![]() ![]() The family moved from Wisconsin to Kansas, then to Minnesota, Iowa, and South Dakota. Her father was said to have a “restless spirit.” He did not like to live in one place very long. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Laura Ingalls was born in eighteen sixty-seven in an area known as the “Big Woods” of Wisconsin. And they loved the open spaces of the prairie. ![]() They enjoyed farming and raising animals. They did not like to live and work in big cities. They carried all they owned in a wagon, pulled by a horse. The family moved from one small house to another. They tell about a family who lived on the great flat land known as the prairie in the central part of the United States. ![]() She wrote nine “Little House” books that take place in the mid eighteen hundreds. They drove away and left it lonely and empty in the clearing among the big trees, and they never saw that little house again.”ĭOUG JOHNSON: Since the nineteen thirties, children have gone to sleep listening to the words of Laura Ingalls Wilder. “A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s published her first book in nineteen thirty-two ![]()
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