What was Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Impact on literature and why?
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born on a farm near Pepin, Wisconsin, on February 7, 1867 ( William Anderson 14). She was the second out of five children born to Charles and Caroline Ingalls. In 1869 the family moved again to the Osage Indian Reserve in Kansas, where Laura remembered meeting the and didn't know what to think about them Indians ( William Anderson 21). After a year the family went back to Wisconsin before moving to Walnut Grove, Minnesota. On the way, Laura saw a train and she has never seen a train before( William Anderson 34).
In Minnesota their crops were wiped out 2 years in a row by plagues. Laura’s little brother,…show more content… Laura sold about 60 million copies. Laura was two to four years old in Kansas and four to seven years in Wisconsin. In the novels she is four to five in Wisconsin and six to seven in Kansas so the novels are wrong. Laura family helped run a hotel. Laura’s youngest sister, Grace was born at that hotel on May 23, 1877. They are loved as a chronicle of life in the Midwest in the 1870s and 1880s. The Masters Hotel has been restored and is now part of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Park and Museum. It attracts about 15,000 visitors each year.
On December 10, 1882, two months before her 16th birthday she got offered her first teaching position. Which she took and loved it. In 1879 the family moved to DeSmet, South Dakota, where Laura spent the rest of her childhood. It was hard and difficult for the family, but they were also important in shaping Laura’s later life as a writer. Winter was the hardest time of the year because people's home weren't very big and nice back then so the cold wind got in the house very easily and food was very hard to find because most of their food came from their crops but all their crops got wiped out by the big winter
