When I was in the 6th grade I was reading the book series. My parents decided to take a three or four month trip across the United States (myself, my brother and my parents) in our car. We sold our house, they quit their jobs and we missed a little bit of school. They said that if we were going to learn American history we could learn about it where it actually happened. It was the bicentennial. Dad had a certain route to take and Missouri was many miles out of the way but he knew I'd love to see the Laura Ingalls Wilder house and so we drove all the way there just for me so that I could experience the books I was reading. I will never forget that.

Beautiful photos. They both lived long lives given the time they were born with limited medical breakthroughs. I find it terrible they posthumously took awards away from her sighting that she was racist. Unbelievable! Our future generations are getting misinformed, dumber & mean.

In the pictures of her when she was in her 80s she looks like she is in good health. Her clothing evolved from prairie dresses to the classic 1950s style. I don't see how women were able to do all the work they did with those long dresses to the ground. It looks like the dresses would get wet in the tall grass and the hem would get muddy not to mention being a fire hazard. It is crazy to think we just put clothes in the washing machine and push a button to do laundry. In the frontier days, they had to carry water, boil water and scrub clothes on a scrub board rinse, hang to dry then iron. We take so much for granted now.

It’s amazing the ages that Laura and Almanzo lived to, considering the hard lives they lived. She was so lovely and so are all her books. 🦋🦋🦋

People didn’t smile in photos back then. So the first smile we see from Laura says she was age 70! And it was a lovely smile too. I’m glad we got to see it.

She died the tear I was born. A woman whose life spanned a lot of history and wrote about what mattered most...family. Thanks for sharing her photos of her life. An amazing woman.

I thought she was a fictional character on the tv show. Never read any of her books but I'm sure they were great as the series. Strong woman

She needs her name reinstated on that children's book award...that was so wrong that they dishonored her that way when she was in no way guilty of racism at all.

Wow this is a amazing history video of Laura Ingalls Wilder. I grew up reading her little house books and the tv series little house on the prairie and Ive been rewatching the show and I’m finally at the last season of it and totally I started rewatching the books and today I read half of her first book little house in the big woods. I have mild Cabral palsy and I couldn’t read but with the help of a tutor I can read I went from book with just pictures and words and then Joanie b Jones and then the little house on the prairie books to young adult books like twilight and hunger games. The show made miss my books so I got them yesterday ❤😊

LIW was elegant in her writings and had such class of a lady! Beautiful from the beginning to the end,just like her writings.

I read every book at least 3 times. Mrs. Wilder changed my life as a young reader and I'll be forever grateful.

The girls were just so lovely in that first picture.

The first chapter books I read as a girl. Laura was my friend when I had no others.

I just loved her books and read every single one multiple times in elementary imagining myself as a little pioneer kid. I'm sure it was much harder than it seemed but her writing made it magical and adventurous.

She remained beautiful her entire life. This was great to watch.

Wow. Some of those photos I've never seen. I am related to her thru my great grandmother Lottie. I have a letter Laura wrote to her when she and Almonzo were elderly and living at Rocky Ridge Farm. Nice video.

I'll be 69 years old in just over a month and I STILL love Laura's books! I have them all in one of my bookcases.

As a kid I really looked up to Laura. Rose died the year I was born but I credit Laura to my love of reading...and writing. I remember telling my mother that I wanted a journal when I was 10 because I wanted to write like Laura did. Now I am 54 years old, and am a published author. She changed my life.

Oh I loved this. I read and re-read all her books when young. I am 71. When I spent time with grandma and grandaddy in the summer on the farm down a gravel road, a traveling library would come to the little red store on the highway and I checked out her books first always. I enjoyed these pictures. They lived such long lives. My grandma was 99 3/4 when she passed away. Active most of it.

Her books were the only set my mother ever bought me as a child when she realized I was her only bookworm out of 7 kids. I was born the y after Laura died. I used to dream I had a Ma& Pa like hers since mine were so cold and abusive. I still have the series in my attic. My gran daughter is only 5 months old, but I will save them for her and hope she loves to read like her grandmother! Hopefully she will learn to day dream through stories like so many of us little girls did with Laura’s books!!!