Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) was born in a log cabin in the
Wisconsin woods. With her family, she pioneered throughout
America's heartland during the 1870s and 1880s, finally settling in
Dakota Territory. She married Almanzo Wilder in 1885; their only
daughter, Rose, was born the following year. The Wilders moved to
Rocky Ridge Farm at Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, where they
established a permanent home. After years of farming, Laura wrote
the first of her beloved Little House books in 1932. The nine
Little House books are international classics. Her writings live on
into the twenty-first century as America's quintessential pioneer
story.
Cherry Jones won the Tony(R) Award for best actress for both The
Heiress and Doubt, and received two Tony(R) nominations for her
work in A Moon for the Misbegotten and Our Country's Good; she can
be seen in the films The Perfect Storm, Erin Brockovich, The Divine
Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and Cold Mountain.
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