Publication

2006-01-31 - University of Missouri Press

Language

English

Word Count

76,500 words, Guess

Page Count

306 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL8166496M
  • ISBN-139780826216489
  • ISBN-10082621648X
  • Goodreads8198
  • LibraryThing121943

Description

Although generations of readers of the Little House books are familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s early life up through her first years of marriage to Almanzo Wilder, few know about her adult years. Going beyond previous studies, Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder focuses upon Wilder’s years in Missouri from 1894 to 1957. Utilizing her unpublished autobiography, letters, newspaper stories, and other documentary evidence, John E. Miller fills the gaps in Wilder’s autobiographical novels and describes her sixty-three years of living in Mansfield, Missouri. As a result, the process of personal development that culminated in Wilder’s writing of the novels that secured her reputation as one of America’s most popular children’s authors becomes evident.

First Sentence

The Civil War was only two years past when a baby girl was born in a cabin on the edge of the "Big Woods" in the Chippewa River valley region of Wisconsin, just a few miles from the Mississippi River.

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