Happy 150th, Laura Ingalls Wilder! (2/07/1867 - 2/10/1957)
Great River Road - Little House In The Big Woods (A log cabin replica of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s birthsite.)
Series: Digital Photographs Relating to America’s Byways, ca. 1995 - ca. 2013. Record Group 406: Records of the Federal Highway Administration, 1956 - 2008
The author of the Little House series was born 150 years ago on February 7, 1867 in the Big Woods region of Wisconsin.
The National Archives holds a number of Little House-related items, including the Homestead Proof of Almanzo Wilder, as well as the papers of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, at the Hoover Presidential Library.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, The National Archives
You can also see how records in the National Archives back up what Laura wrote about one of her home towns in “De Smet, Dakota Territory, Little Town in the National Archives” (Winter 2003 Prologue).
Find more Laura Ingalls Wilder-related items in the @usnatarchives online Catalog.