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In 1882, Laura accepted her first teaching position.

This is where Laura would meet her future husband, Almanzo Wilder. In 1888, they moved to DeSmet, South Dakota. After another year of crops being ruined, they moved back to Walnut Grove. Charles helped run a hotel while they lived in Burr Oak. After crops had been destroyed two years in a row, the Ingalls then moved to Burr Oak, Iowa. Around 1874, the Ingalls family again moved to Walnut Grove, Minnesota, living in a dugout (“On the Banks Of Plum Creek”).

After Charles learning it was an Indian reservation and having no legal right to occupy it, they moved back to Wisconsin living there for three years. When Laura was two years old, the Ingalls moved to (modern day) Independence, Kansas. Laura was the second of five children-her older sister Mary Amelia, her younger sister Caroline Celestia (Carrie), Charles Frederick (who died as an infant), and Grace Pearl. The series of books discusses her childhood with her family as both a settler and pioneer. In her first book, (in a series of children’s books Laura began writing at the age of 64) “Little House in the Big Woods”, Laura discusses her early memories.

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born to Charles Phillip and Caroline Quiner Ingalls (we commonly refer to them today as Pa and Ma) on Februin a log cabin in Pepin, Wisconsin.