The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Moving meant hard, hard work. Travel by wagon; riding, or walking, for days on end. Building, by hand, incredibly primitive structures that barely qualified as human shelter. Money was always tight; at one point, her father walked 300 miles to accept work as a farm hand. Laura began to teach school (she did sewing on

Moving meant hard, hard work. Travel by wagon; riding, or walking, for days on end. Building, by hand, incredibly primitive structures that barely qualified as human shelter. Money was always tight; at one point, her father walked 300 miles to accept work as a farm hand. Laura began to teach school (she did sewing on the side) when she was just 15, even though she'd received little formal education herself — she and her siblings were tutored by their mother, and by each other — because the family needed the cash.

Laura married Almanzo Wilder when she was 18 and he was 28, both living near DeSmet, South Dakota. Parents dearly hope their children will do better than they themselves did in life, but that wasn't true for Laura and Almanzo. They suffered the loss of an infant child, a boy, though their daughter, Rose, would live to adulthood. Crop failures plagued them as well; economic hard times kept them impoverished throughout most of their life together. Adding to life's difficulties was a stroke Almanzo suffered early on, and from which he never fully recovered (he was able to walk, but only with a cane, for the rest of his life). They lost their home and barn to a fire.

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