Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder are married. The Ingalls family leaves Minnesota and moves to DeSmet, Dakota Territory. 1879 Almanzo Wilder files a homestead claim near DeSmet, Dakota Territory. 1878 The Ingalls family leaves Iowa and returns to Walnut Grove, Minnesota. 1876 The Ingalls family leaves Minnesota and moves to Burr Oak, Iowa. 1874 The Ingalls family moves to Walnut Grove, Minnesota. 1871 The Ingalls family returns to Pepin, Wisconsin. 1869 The Ingalls family leaves Wisconsin and moves to Kansas. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls is born to Charles Philip and Caroline Quiner Ingalls in a log cabin near Pepin, Wisconsin. Almanzo James Wilder is born to James and Angeline Day Wilder on a farm near Malone, New York.

Each year brings many hardships but Almanzo and Laura never lose their courage and determination.ġ857 February 13. Almanzo and Laura begin their married life on a homestead near De Smet and their daughter, Rose, is born. Every Friday Almanzo Wilder arrives at the school to take her home. Laura teaches at Brewster School, twelve miles from De Smet. In the little town on the Dakota prairie, Laura attends socials and “literaries” and studies to become a teacher so she can earn money to send her sister, Mary, to a college for the blind in Iowa. When the supply trains stop running, the family must survive with little food and no coal. During the hard winter of 1880-1881, the Ingallses move into their store building in De Smet, South Dakota. After grasshoppers destroy their wheat crop, the Ingallses sell their farm in Minnesota and move to Dakota Territory where Pa gets a job working for the railroad. The Ingallses move to a farm near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where they live in a dugout until Pa borrows money to build a frame house for the family. The story of Almanzo Wilder's boyhood growing up on a farm near Malone, New York. The Ingallses leave their cabin in the big woods and travel by covered wagon to Kansas Territory where they accidentally settle on land belonging to the Osage Indians. Pa, Ma, Mary, Laura, and Baby Carrie live in a log cabin in the big woods near Pepin, Wisconsin, in the 1870s. She thought of writing the story of her childhood in eight volumes that would cover each aspect of the American frontier. She thought about how she had seen the settling of the frontier - the woods, Indian Territory of the Great Plains, the frontier towns, the coming of the railroad, and homesteading on the prairie. When Laura was 60 years old, she wrote her first book, Little House In The Big Woods, so those stories would not be lost. Laura Ingalls Wilder has said that she and her sisters were busy and happy as children but loved Pa's stories the best. Source: The National Archives and Records Administration

The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder