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"Laura's Memories", an annual pageant in Mansfield, Missouri, celebrates this woman who wrote her books there |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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$1,000 |
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FEMALE AUTHORS |
2022-02-10 |
#6 |
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At 16, shewas a teacher; by 19 she was married & a mother; she only began publishing books about prairie family life at age 65 |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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$1,600 |
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AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG |
2021-06-01 |
#8412 |
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At age 64, before her "Little House" books, she traveled in a 1923 Buick named Isabelle from Missouri to her old Dakota home |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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$400 |
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AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS |
2021-03-01 |
#8346 |
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In the 1870s she & her family lived in a little dugout house near Walnut Grove, Minnesota on the banks of Plum Creek |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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$3,000 |
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AUTHORS' HOMES |
2020-11-11 |
#8278 |
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In her "Little Town on the Prairie", the main character turns 15 & is getting ready to teach school |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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$400 |
DJ |
WOMEN AUTHORS |
2018-02-02 |
#7690 |
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"Little House in the Big Woods" was her first novel about her family's life in the late 1800s |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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$400 |
DJ |
WOMEN AUTHORS |
2016-09-15 |
#7359 |
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Items at her museum include Pa's fiddle, tools made by Almanzo & handwritten manuscripts for her novels |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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$800 |
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AUTHORS' MUSEUMS |
2014-10-06 |
#6911 |
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On February 7, 1867 she was born in a little house in the big woods in Lake Pepin, Wisconsin |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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$400 |
DJ |
3-NAMED AUTHORS |
2014-07-01 |
#6872 |
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Her final resting place is a Missouri cemetery where she shares a headstone with husband Almanzo |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
DD
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$2,500 |
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3-NAMED AUTHORS |
2012-05-21 |
#6381 |
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Her 1933 book "Farmer Boy" describes the childhood of her husband, Almanzo Wilder |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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$200 |
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS |
1998-03-13 |
#3125 |
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Her "Little House in the Big Woods" begins in Wisconsin |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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$400 |
DJ |
WOMEN WRITERS |
1997-06-24 |
#2967 |
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In 1941 she wrote "Little Town on the Prairie" |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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$400 |
DJ |
AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS |
1997-05-14 |
#2938 |
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The Burr Oak, Iowa hotel in which this "Little House on the Prairie" author briefly lived is a museum |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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$400 |
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AUTHORS |
1997-03-03 |
#2886 |
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She was born in Pepin, Wisconsin in 1867, presumably in a "little house" |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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$200 |
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AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES |
1992-09-11 |
#1840 |