For Laura Ingalls, the tall trees of the big woods of Wisconsin were her first memories of the world around her and served as the backdrop of her earliest stories. As she and her family moved from homestead to homestead, the places she left behind lived on in her imagination, and she later re-created the Indian territory of Kansas; the Plum Creek of Walnut Grove, Minnesota; and the prairie life of De Smet, South Dakota, in her fiction.
Famous for her books about pioneer life, Laura Ingalls Wilder started writing her series of Little House books in 1932, unaware that she was creating a lasting fame for herself and the places where she once lived. But the saga of her family's joys and struggles as they pioneered in the woodlands and prairies of frontier America during the 1870s and 1880s won the hearts of millions of readers, many of whom have visited the homesteads Laura wrote about. Laura Ingalls Wilder Country revisits the lands of the Little Houses and takes the reader on an enchanting tour of the places and people Laura Ingalls Wilder knew and loved. Inside, full-color photographs capture the outside world of nature that still looks much as it did in Laura's day. Interspersed with the contemporary photographs are historic and family photographs and scenes of Laura's writing desk and rocking chair, Pa's fiddle and the family Bible, and the restored or re-created rooms the Ingalls and Wilder families lived in to show how life was lived a hundred years ago. For those who love Laura, this book lets us see for the first time what we have read about so often.
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