Six more books followed, detailing the family’s experiences on the frontier, creating an idealised, nostalgic account of Laura’s peripatetic early years, along with one book describing her husband Almanzo Wilder’s childhood on a farm in New York. Within a few years of her birth, the Ingalls family piled their few possessions into a covered wagon and started the trip into “Indian Territory”, to join the settlers pushing west in order to make manifest the destiny that America was determined to invent. L aura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House in the Big Woods was first published in 1932, when its author was 65 it offers a sanitised tale of her childhood near Pepin, Wisconsin, just after the end of the US civil war.
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