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Some of America’s best loved stories were written at a small farm in Mansfield, Missouri.The farm in Missouri was a step up for Laura Ingalls Wilder and her husband Almonzo from their log cabin homestead in Minnesota.
Still standing beautiful on top of a hill, the stark white farmhouse is open to the public for tours where Ingalls Wilder wrote the timelessly popular Little House on the Prairie series of books that were later turned into a 1970s hit television series.
Laura, Almonzo, and their daughter Rose moved to Mansfield in 1894 and settled the 40 acre Rocky Ridge Farm, purchased with 100 dollars that they had hidden away on a six-week trek across the Midwest.
In the middle of the Great Depression, young bookworms were introduced to a spirited girl growing up in woodsy Wisconsin during the 1870s. Though not every detail was strictly autobiographical,
Little House in the Big Woods was the true story of its author, Laura Ingalls Wilder, who was born on February 7, 1867, and died on February 10, 1957. Readers were captivated by her tales of family life on the homestead, and Wilder capitalized on this success by penning an entire series of Little House books, which followed the protagonist to the prairies of modern-day South Dakota and beyond. Get to know the pioneering author behind the series with these eight fascinating facts.