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Laura Ingalls Wilder Timeline
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Born February 7, 1867
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1871
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· Little House in the Big Woods
Laura is 4, Mary is 6
Pepin, WI
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1869
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· LH on the Prairie
Laura is 2
Independence, KS
Pa is 33 and Ma is 30
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1866
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· Farmer Boy
Almanzo is 9
New York
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1874-1876
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· On the Banks of Plumb Creek
Laura is 7
Walnut Grove, MN This is where they live in a dugout
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1876-1877
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· Burr Oak, IA
The Lost Years
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1877-1879
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· Back to Walnut Grove
Mary becomes blind in 1879
Almanzo, Royal, and Eliza Jane file homestead claims in De Smet in 1879
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1879
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· Shores of Silver Lake
Laura is 12
De Smet, S.D.
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1880
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· The Long Winter
Laura is 13
De Smet
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1881
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· Little Town on the Prairie
· Laura is 14
· De Smet
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1881
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· Mary goes to College
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1882-1885
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· These Happy Golden Years
· Laura is 15-18
· Laura teaches her first school in 1882
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1885
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· Laura & Almanzo marry
· Laura is 18, Almanzo is 28
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1887
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· Pa, Ma, Mary, Carrie, & Grace move into town / De Smet
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Notes: Mary was born January 10, 1865. When Laura was born, Pa was 31 and Ma was 28. Ma was 21 when she married. Pa died in 1902; he was 67 years old and the first citizen of De Smet. Mary died in 1928 at age 63.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Timeline
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