
... 1867 (145 years ago today), a daughter was born to pioneer parents in a log cabin in eastern Wisconsin. By age 17 she was teaching school in the Dakota Territory to which her itinerant family had traveled. There she married at 18. Laura Ingalls Wilder (left) her husband, and their 8-year-old daughter settled in 1894 in Mansfield, Missouri. In 1932, she published Little House in the Big Woods. (credit for mid-1930s photo) Set in the place of Ingalls Wilder's birth, it would be the 1st of a series of 9 books, all written

(Prior February 7 posts are here, here, here, and here.)
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