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I have the wonderful book, "The World of Little House" by Carolyn Strom Collins and Christina Wyss Eriksson.  In the back, it has a wonderful calendar of events that happened in Laura's time. It goes from the 1860's through to her death in 1957.  Depending on the time I have here at work, I brought the book with me, I want to make a list of each era and everyone can see what this wonderful woman lived through and the changes she witnessed.  The first time I went through the book and saw the changes Laura lived through, I was so amazed and thought I would share it with you.........I hope you enjoy.   grinsmiley

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1860

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Charles Phillip Ingalls and Caroline Lake Quiner are married in Concord, Wisconsin, on February 1.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the United States.

1861


Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Eliza Quiner marries Peter Ingalls

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The Civil War begins at Fort Sumter, South Carolina

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The Dakota Territory is formed

1862

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Joseph Quiner is killed at the Battle of Shiloh.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Congress passes the Homestead Act. which gives 160 acres of land to any U.S. citizen who lives on it.

1863

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Ingalls move to the Big Woods

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24In September, Charles and Caroline buy eighty acres for $335 with Uncle Henry and Aunt Polly Quiner.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves, goes into effect.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Lincoln proclaims the last Thursday in November as a national Day of Thanksgiving.

1865

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Mary Amelia Ingalls is born on January 10, in Pepin, Wisconsin.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Two of Pa's brothers, Hiram and James, join the Minnesota Volunteers and fight in the Civil War.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4General Robert E. Lee surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Abraham Lincoln is assassinated on April 14 by John Wilkes Booth.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Congress passes the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery.

1866

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Almanzo, age 9, wins the blue ribbon for his g iant pumpkin at the Franklin, New York, county fair.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.

1867

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Laura Elizabeth Ingalls is born on February 7, in Pepin, Wisconsin.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Almanzo Wilder is ten years old.

1868

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Ingalls family moves to Chariton County, Missouri.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The Osage Indians sign a treaty with the United States government for their land in Kansas Reserve.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4>Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" is published.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Congress passes the 14th Amendment, granting citizenship to African Americans.

1869

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Ingalls family leaves Chariton County, Missouri, and settles in Montgomery County, Kansas.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The first railroad linking the east and west coasts of the entire United States is completed.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The first postcards are issued.

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1870

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Laura is three years old.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Caroline Celestia (Carrie) Ingalls is born on August 3, in Montgomery County, Kansas.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Congress passes the 15th Amendment, granting the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

1871

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Ingalls family moves back to Pepin, Wisconsin.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Laura attends school for the first time.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The Wonders of the Animal World (Pa's "Big Green Animal Book") by G. Hartwig is published.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Montgomery Ward opens the first catalogue house.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4P.T. Barnum opens his circus, "The Greatest Show on Earth," in New York.

1873

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Congress passes the Timber Culture Act. granting 160 acres of timberland to any U.S. citizen who cares for 40 acres for five years.

1874

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Ingalls family moves to Walnut Grove, Minnesota.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Tom Quiner, Ma's brother, joins the first party of prospectors in the Black Hills of western South Dakota.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The first American zoo is established in Philadelphia.

1875

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Charles Frederic (Freddie) Ingalls is born in Walnut Grove, on November 1.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Wilder family moves from Malone, New York to Spring Valley, Minnesota; Almanzo is eighteen years old.

1876

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Baby Freddie Ingalls dies on August 27.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Ingalls family moves to Burr Oak, Iowa, to help run the Burr Oak House.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The first U.S. patent for the telephhone is granted to Alexander Graham Bell.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The Sioux Indians, led by chiefs, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, defeat General Custer and the Seventh Cavalry in the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Grasshoppers are declared "Public Enemy #1" in Minnesota, and the government offers children up to fifty cents for every bushel of dead grasshoppers collected.

1877

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Grace Pearl Ingalls is born on May 23, in Burr Oak, Iowa.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Ingalls family returns to Walnut Grove, Minnesota.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.

1878

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Laura wins a reference Bible for reciting 104 Golden Texts and Central Truths perfectly.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4W.A. Burpee begins selling seeds by catalogue.

1879

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Mary falls ill and slowly loses her sight.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Ingalls family moves to Dakota Territory and helps settle the twon of De Smet.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Almanzo, his brother Royal and their sister, Eliza Jane file homestead claims for land near De Smet.

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1880

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Laura is thirteen years old.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Ingallses move into their new homestead, but return to town after an early blizzard hits, and the long winter begins.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Pa becomes Justice of the Peace in De Smet.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Five Little Peppers and How They Grow by Margaret Sidney is published.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Helen Keller is born.

1881

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Mary, Carrie and Laura have their first photograph taken.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Ma and Pa take Mary to the Iowa School for the Blind in Vinton, Iowa.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Eliza Jane Wilder begins teaching at the De Smet school.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4President James A. Garfield is assassinated by Charles Guiteau.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Billy the Kid is killed by Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Clara Birton founds the American National Red Cross.

1882

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Laura receives her teacher's certificate and begins teaching at the Bouchie School (called Brewster School in These Happy Golden Year's).

1883

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody organizes the first Wild West show.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Standard time is established.  The railroads demarcate the four time zones.

1884

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Laura and Almanzo become engaged.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Almanzo and Royal leave De Smet for the New Orleans Exposition.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Oil is discovered in Independence, Kansas; eventually there will be twenty-three oil wells on the land that once surrounded the little house on the prairie.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is published.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The first sky-scraper, the ten-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago, opens.

1885

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Laura and Almanzo are married on August 25 in De Smet.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4David Swazey, Carrie's future husband, suggests the name Mount Rushmore for the now-famous mountain in the Black Hills.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The Washington Monument is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

1886

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Rose Wilder is born on December 5 in De Smet, Dakota Territory.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The Statue of Liberty is unveiled in New York harbor.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Coca-Cola appears on the market in Atlanta, Georgia, and is advertised as a remedy for fatigue.

1887

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Pa and Ma, Mary, Carrie and Grace move into their new home in town.

1888

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Laura and Almanzo are stricken with diphtheria.

1889

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Laura and Almanzo's son is born and dies twelve days later.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Laura and Almanzo's house is destroyed by fire.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Mary graduates from the School for the Blind.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4South Dakota becomes a state.


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1890

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Laura is twenty-three years old.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Wilders leave De Smet, South Dakota, and spend a year with Almanzo's parents in Spring Valley, Minnesota.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The Seventh Cavalry of the U.S. Army defeats Chief Sitting Bull and the Sioux Indians at the Battle of Wounded Knee.  Sitting Bull dies.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4Peanut Butter is first introduced in St. Louis, Missouri.

1891

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Wilders move to Westville, Florida

1892

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Wilders return to De Smet, South Dakota

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Pa sells the claim and adds a two-story wing onto the house in town.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The United States government purchases the Cherokee Strip from the Cherokee Nation.  The 6 million acres of land between Kansas and Oklahoma are made available to white settlers.

1894

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Wilders leave De Smet and travel to Mansfield, Missouri, where they purchase Rocky Ridge Farm

1896

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Wilders begin construction on the first phase of their new farmhouse at Rocky Ridge--the kitchen, a front room, and an attic bedroom.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4X-rays are used for the first time in the United States for the treament of cancer.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4In Plessy vs. Ferguson, the Supreme Court rules that designating "seperate but equal" facilities for African Americans does not violate the 14th Amendment.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24Helen Moore Sewell, the first illustrator of the Little House books, is born.

1897

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4John Philip Sousa writes "Stars and Stripes Forever."

1898

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24The Wilders rent out the farm and move into town.  Almanzo's parents visit on their way to their new home in Louisiana.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4The U .S. battleship Maine is blown up in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, killing more than 260 people.  The Spanish-American War officially begins.

1899

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24James Wilder, Almanzo's father, dies in Louisiana.

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1900

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24  Laura is thirty-three years old.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4  The cake walk becomes the most fashionable dance in the United States.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4  Dr. Walter Reed of the U.S. Army Medical Corps discovers that the yellow fever virus ("fever 'n' ague") is transmitted by mosquitoes.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum is published.

1901

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Grace Ingalls marries Nathan William Dow in De Smet on October 16.  They live in Manchester, South Dakota, seven miles west of De Smet.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 President McKinley is assisinated by Leon Czolgosz.

1902

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura returns to De Smet to Pa, who is critically ill from heart failure.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Charles Ingalls dies on June 8.

1903

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Rose goes to Louisiana with Almanzo's sister Eliza Jane.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4  Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully fly a powered airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4  The teddy bear, named after President Theodore Roosevelt, is first introduced.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4  Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin is published.

1904

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Rose is graduated from high school in Crowley, Louisiana, and takes a job as a telegraph operator in Kansas City, Missouri.

1905

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Angeline Wilder, Almanzo's mother, dies in Crowley, Louisiana.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Albert Einstein formulates the theory of relativity with the equation E=mc2.

1908

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Henry Ford manufactures the first Model T automobile.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4  Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery is published.

1909

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24  Rose Wilder, age twenty-three, arries Gillette Lane in San Francisco.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4  The Lincoln-head penny is issued by the Philadelphia Mint on the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.  It replaces the Indian-head penny.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded under the leadership of W.E.B. Du Bois.

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1910-1919

1910

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24  Laura is forty-three years old.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4  Halley's Comet is observed.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4  The Boy Scouts of America is formed.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 The Camp Fire Girls is formed.

1911

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura Ingalls Wilder publishes her first article in The Missouri Ruralist, titled "Favors the Small Farm Home."

1912

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Carrie Ingalls marries David N. Swanzey on August 1.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 The Titanic, an "unsinkable" luxary liner making its maiden voyage from Englad to the United States, collides with an iceberg and sinks, killing 1,513 people.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 The Girl Guides, forerunner of the Girl Scouts, is formed.

1913

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 The Wilders add the parlor, library, porches, and separate rooms to the farmhouse at Rocky Ridge.

1915

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura visits Rose, who is a newspaper reporter, in San Francisco.

1916

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Norman Rockwell illustrates his first cover for The Saturday Evening Post.

1917

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura helps organize the Mansfield Farm Loan Association and serves as its secretary-treasurer.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 The United States enters World War I.

1918

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Rose Wilder and Gillette Lane divorce.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 World War I ends.

1919

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Congress passes the 18th Amendment, outlawing transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages and ushering in the era of Prohibition.

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1920-1929

1920

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura is fifty-three years old

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Hugh Lofting's The Story of Dr. Doolittle is published

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Congress passes the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women suffrage.

1922

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Rose receives the second-place O. Henry Award for her short story "Innocence"

1924

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Rose gives Laura and Almanzo a new car and teaches Almanzo how to drive

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Caroline Quiner Ingalls dies in De Smet on April 20, at age 84.

1925

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 The Scopes "monkey trial" is held in Dayton, Tennessee. John T. Scopes was arrested on May 5 for teaching the theory of evolution to his students in violation of state law. Scopes was convicted and fined $100.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.

1926

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Don Juan, the first talking picture presented to an audience, is shown in New York City.

1927

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., flies nonstop from New York to Paris.

1928

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 While visiting Carrie in Keystone, South Dakota, Mary suffers a stroke and dies on October 17.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Rose builds a rock house for Laura and Almanzo on the Rocky Ridge property.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura and Almanzo move into the rock house, and Rose moves into the farmhouse.

1929

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 On Black Tuesday (October 29), over 16 million shares are dumped for whatever they could bring, causing the stock market to crash and ushering in the Great Depression.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Academy Awards are presented for the first time to honor outstanding achievement in filmmaking.

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1930

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura is sixty-three years old.

1931

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura and Almanzo drive to De Smet and then to the Black Hills of South Dakota to visit Grace and Carrie.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 The Empire State Building is completed.

1932

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Little House in the Big Woods, illustrated by Helen Sewell, is published by Harper Brothers.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Rose Wilder Lane's Let the Hurricane Roar is published by Harper Brothers.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic nonstop.

1933

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Farmer Boy is published.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 In an emergency session that lasts one hundred days, Congress passes legislation to aid farmers and the unemployed.

1935

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Little House on the Prairie is published.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Rose Wilder Lane's Old Home Town is published.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura and Almanzo celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 The homestead Act is repealed.

1936

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind is published.

1937

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 On the Banks of Plum Creek is published.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura and Almanzo move back into the farmhouse at Rocky Ridge after living nine years in the rock house.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura and Almanzo travel to Detroit, where Laura speaks at a book fair.

1938

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Rose Wilder Lane's Free Land is published.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura and Almanzo travel with their friends Silas and Neta Seal to the west coast.

1939

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 By the Shores of Silver Lake is published.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura and Almanzo travel to De Smet to the Old Settlers' Day celebration.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is published.

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1940-1949

1940

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura is seventy-three years old.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 The Long Winter is published.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Walt Disney's Fantasia opens in movie theaters.

1941

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Little Town on the Prairie is published

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Grace dies on November 10.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Japanese troops attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Congress declares war against Japan. Germany and Italy declare war against the United States.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 The Mount Rushmore National Monument in South Dakota is completed after fourteen years.

1943

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 These Happy Golden Years is published.

1944

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected for a fourth time. He is the only president elected to four terms.

1945

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Germany surrenders u nconditionally to the Allies, ending the European phase of World War II.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 The United States drops the first atomic bomb ever to be used in war on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, it drops the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Japan surrenders and the Pacific phase of World War II ends.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 The United Nations is formed in San Francisco.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 E.B. White's Stuart Little, illustrated by Garth Williams, is published.

1946

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Carrie dies on June 2.

1947

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Garth Williams visits the Wilders at Rocky Ridge in preparation for his new illustrations for the Little House series.

1949

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Almanzo dies on October 23, at age 82.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 The Detroit Public Library names a branch after Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is staged on Broadway and wins the Pulitzer Prize.

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1950-1957

1950

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura is eighty-three years old.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 The Laura Inalls Wilder Room at the Pomona Public Library in Pomona, California, is dedicated.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 War with Korea declared.

1951

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 The Laura Ingalls Wilder Library in Mansfield, Missouri, is dedicated.

1952

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 E.B. White's Charlotte's Web, illustrated by Garth Williams, is published.

1953

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 The eight Little House books are reissued with Garth William's illustrations.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 War with Korea ends.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Puerto Rico becomes the first United States commonwealth.

1954

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award is created by the American Library Association.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Dr. Jonas Edward Salk announces development of the first polio vaccine.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 In Brown v. the Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court declares racial segregation in the schools to be unconstitutional.

1955

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Jim Henson creates Kermit the Frog, the first Muppet.

1957

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Laura dies on February 10, three days after her birthday, at age 90.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_24 Helen Moore Sewell dies.

Life and Times of Laura 4_10_4 Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas are published.

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Thanks everyone...I absolutely love this book and highly recommend it to you to find and buy it.  Laura went through so much in her 90 years, including living 7 years after Almanzo had died....a lot of people die shortly after their spouse, but she was a strong woman and lived to be 90.  Her house in Mansfield, Missouri is still left the way it was when she died.  She died 3 days after her birthday, and her little dining room table has birthday cards spread out all over it....she had been reading them as they came in...She was SO loved.   Love


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