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  Almanzo Wilder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Almanzo's inability to perform the hard physical labor associated with wheat farming in South Dakota, combined with a lengthy drought in the late 1880s-early 1890s, further contributed to the Wilders' downward spiral into debt and poverty.
Almanzo lived out the rest of his life on his farm, and both he and Laura were active in various community and church pursuits during their time in Missouri.
Almanzo Wilder died at the age of 92 on October 23, 1949 after suffering two heart attacks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Almanzo_Wilder   (1425 words)

  
 Laura Ingalls Wilder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was born in Pepin, Wisconsin to parents Charles Phillip and Caroline Lake (Quiner) Ingalls.
Rose Wilder Lane grew into an intelligent, restless young woman who was not satisfied with the rural lifestyle her parents loved.
A.J. Wilder to a loyal audience of rural Ozarkians, who enjoyed her regular columns, which ranged in topic from home and family, World War I and other world events, to the fascinating world travels of her daughter and her own thoughts on the increasing options being offered to women during this era.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder   (2918 words)

  
 Almanzo James Wilder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Almanzo James Wilder was born February 13, 1857, near Malone, New York.
Almanzo and Laura were married on August 25, 1885, in De Smet.
Almanzo died on October 23, 1949, at Rocky Ridge farm at the age of 92.
webpages.marshall.edu /~irby1/laura/almanzo.html   (426 words)

  
 Laura Ingalls Wilder - MSN Encarta
When Wilder was in her sixties, her daughter urged her to write down her vivid childhood memories of growing up on the American frontier.
Beginning with Little House in the Big Woods (1932), the Wisconsin cabin in which she was born, Wilder chronicles her family's westward migration to the Little House on the Prairie (1935) in Kansas, to Minnesota On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), and finally to the Dakota Territory By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939).
Wilder's Little House books were the inspiration for a popular television series, “Little House on the Prairie,” which aired in the 1970s and 1980s.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579529/Wilder_Laura_Ingalls.html   (394 words)

  
 Obituary for Almanzo James Wilder
Wilder had been seriously ill he was thought to be in an improved condition when death took him after he suffered a sudden heart attack.
Wilder and Laura Ingalls Wilder, who has received acclaim as a writer of children's books, a native of Wisconsin, who moved with her family to South Dakota, were married on August 25, 1885, in De Smet, S.D. Nine years later they came to Missouri settling in Mansfield.
Wilder was a member of the Mansfield Blue Lodge of the Masons, and in earlier years was active in civic affairs of the community.
www.laurasprairiehouse.com /research/almanzowilderobituary.html   (299 words)

  
 Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home & Museum
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls and Almanzo James Wilder were married August 25, 1885 in Dakota Territory by the Reverend E. Brown of the Congregational Church.
It traveled with the Wilders to Mansfield in 1894 and is on display at Rocky Ridge Farm house.
Author Laura Ingalls Wilder was an enthusiastic homemaker on Rocky Ridge Farm, They cypress stump table was made by Almanzo Wilder for the sunny corner of the family home.
www.lauraingallswilderhome.com /gallery1.htm   (350 words)

  
 Almanzo James Wilder Biography
Almanzo James Wilder was the fifth child born to James and Angeline Wilder, on February 13, 1857, near Malone, New York.
Almanzo was plagued with debts and other hardships related to farming, which is documented in The First Four Years.
Almanzo lived out the rest of his life working on his beloved farm, until his death on October 23, 1949 from two heart attacks.
www.laurasprairiehouse.com /family/almanzowilder.html   (276 words)

  
 TLN Presents: Little House on the Prairie
She and Almanzo had a daughter, Rose, who was born on December 5, 1886, and a son in early August 1889, who died.
Almanzo lived out the rest of his life working on his beloved farm, until his death on October 23, 1949 from two subsequent heart attacks.
Rose Wilder was the first child and only daughter of Laura and Almanzo Wilder, born on December 5, 1886, in De Smet, South Dakota.
www.tln.com /littlehouse/history_wilder.html   (487 words)

  
 tvdvdreviews.com -- Little House on the Prairie: Season 6 DVD Review
Laura ruins a dinner that Nellie plans with Almanzo, Nellie misleads Laura when she is studying for her graduation exams, and it all culminates in a no-holds barred, vicious mudwrestling match in a sun-dappled prairie bog.
Almanzo breaks up the fight, and takes Laura back to his house to warm up and get out of her muddy clothes (it sounds WAY more sinister than it actually is).
Almanzo leaves town in a huff, and Laura is left in floods of tears.
www.tvdvdreviews.com /little6.html   (4301 words)

  
 Almanzo James Wilder (1857 - 1949) - Find A Grave Memorial
Almanzo was the fifth of six children born to James and Angeline Day Wilder.
The Wilder family moved from Malone to Spring Valley, Minnesota, in 1875, while Almanzo and his older brother, Royal, stayed in Malone to caretake the old farm.
Almanzo passed away at Rocky Ridge Farm on October 23, 1949, at the age of ninety-two.
www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3949&pt=Almanzo+Wilder   (183 words)

  
 Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society, Inc.- De Smet, SD
Almanzo had been weakened from diphtheria when he was young but it was his heart he had trouble with later in life.
Wilder was a spoiled child and on a visit to Rocky Ridge in 1903, shocked Laura with some of his hooligan actions, including purposely breaking a sitting room window.
Almanzo had always been a horseman and was interested in improving the quality of horses found in the Ozarks.
www.discoverlaura.org /discover.html   (4699 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Farmer Boy: Books: Laura Ingalls Wilder,Garth Williams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Farmer Boy" is a departure from the rest of the famed "Little House" books in that it does not relate the story of her own family's hardscrabble existence on the western frontier, but instead tells the story of her husband's boyhood on his family's prosperous farm in upstate New York.
Almanzo's parents are shown as loving, but, in contrast to Pa and Ma Ingalls, they come across as a little more stern and authoritarian with their children.
Almanzo's birthday was coming up and he got a sled and pa said he could train the young horses.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/006026425X   (1807 words)

  
 Juvenile Books Author of the Month
Laura and Almanzo built their first home on the farm, a two-bedroom house, in 1895 using local lumber and fieldstone from the farm.
J-92-WIL Laura Ingalls Wilder (1981) by Gwenda Blair - A brief biography of the author of the Little House books, which were based on her own family experiences with her family on the frontier in the late Nineteenth Century.
J-92-Wilder Laura Ingalls Wilder: Storyteller of the Prairie (1997) by Ginger Wadsworth -- Tells the life story of the author of the Little House books from her childhood in Wisconsin to her death at Rocky Ridge Farm at the age of ninety.
www.yourlibrary.ws /childrens_webpage/j-author22001.html   (3148 words)

  
 Today in History: February 7
During her first winter teaching, Almanzo Wilder began calling for Laura to take her home each weekend so that she could be with her family, and he could spend time in her company.
Almanzo's and Laura's sedate and happy courtship took place, for the most part, in a sleigh or a buggy behind his beautiful matched horses, Lady and Prince.
Almanzo's mother's threat to come out West to arrange a big church wedding, prompted the young couple to marry in haste in a simple manner.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/feb07.html   (1153 words)

  
 Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Biographies - Laura Ingalls Wilder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Wilder was born Laura Elizabeth Ingalls in Pepin, Wisconsin, in February 1867.
Wilder felt she had little control over her pupils and was very homesick.
Wilder's inspiration to write came from her life story, but the courage to write came from her daughter, Rose Wilder.
www.gale.com /free_resources/whm/bio/ingallswilder_l.htm   (1504 words)

  
 A place in history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
BURKE — The Wilder Farm in Burke is known throughout the world, thanks to the work of one of America’s most beloved authors and a long-running television series from the 1970s.
The farm is the setting of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book "Farmer Boy," which describes the childhood of the author’s husband, Almanzo Wilder.
Almanzo was born on the farm in 1857 and lived there until 1875, when he and his family moved to Minnesota.
www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2001/07_2001/070820016.htm   (1305 words)

  
 Laura Ingalls Wilder at the Hoover Library-Museum--Farmer Boy
The Wilder farm in New York was large and prosperous and there were three long barns filled with animals and farming equipment.
Almanzo and Royal helped their father feed the animals, milk and plant and harvest the crops.
Almanzo was too young to go to the Academy with his brother and sisters.
hoover.archives.gov /LIW/farmerboy   (347 words)

  
 Hoover Reseach Collection - Chronology of Laura ingalls and Almonzo Wilder
Almanzo James Wilder is born to James and Angeline Day Wilder on a farm near Malone, New York.
Almanzo resumes work too soon and suffers a relapse causing a stroke that leaves him partially paralyzed.
Rose Wilder Lane dies in her sleep at the age of 81.
www.ecommcode2.com /hoover/research/wilder/chronology.html   (521 words)

  
 Farmer Boy by Charley Hardman
Wilder could be arrested promptly for child abuse, and the downtrodden Almanzo handed over by the state to foster parents who would show him trendy love and care.
It's easy to see in the book that Almanzo's parents considered their job primarily to be one of raising adults while realizing that they were still working with children.
Almanzo knew she did not need the dishpan; she had set it out only to bargain with.
www.saltypig.com /LRC/030602FarmerBoy.htm   (1537 words)

  
 Almanzo & Laura Ingalls Wilder's Relatives
For example: The 1880 census gave Carrie's birthplace as Kansas, but she appears as "baby Carrie" in Laura's first book, "Little House in the Big Woods," which is set in Wisconsin and takes place *before* the Ingalls moved to Kansas (the setting of Laura's third book, "Little House on the Prairie").
There was no mention of a *sister* named Laura in "Farmer Boy" - Laura Ingalls Wilder's biography of a year of her husband's life as a child in upstate New York.
No writer has yet mentioned the presence of Rose Wilder Lane in the 1910 census (taken 16 Apr) of Wright County, Missouri, with Almanzo and Laura.
members.tripod.com /~PennyN   (2317 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Little House (9 Books, Boxed Set): Books: Laura Ingalls Wilder,Garth Williams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Almanzo and his brother and sisters work at their chores from dawn to supper most days -- no matter what the weather.
Laura and Almanzo are courting, and even though she's not yet sixteen, she knows that this is a time for new beginnings.
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in the Wisconsin woods in 1867.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0064400409?v=glance   (2465 words)

  
 Little House on the Prairie: Wilder And Wilder - TV.com
Ingalls is proud of Almanzo when Charles sees him trying to nurse his horse back to health.
Goof: There is a scene in which Almanzo is hitching up his horse outside him home.
You can clearly see his shadow along the ground (which is fine) but then his shadow climbs up a backdrop (which is painted to look like a tree on a hillside).
tv.com /.../wilder-and-wilder/episode/64129/summary.html   (362 words)

  
 Little House on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder (2) - TV.com
Since Eliza Jane doesn't want to see Almanzo and Laura break up, she decides to leave and tells Almanzo to chase after Laura to tell her that she could teach in Walnut Grove.
This story is actually told in part through the words of Eliza Jane Wilder and her diary.
Dean Butler as Almanzo Wilder was credited a guest, (as he is a main part of the story).
tv.com /.../laura-ingalls-wilder-2/episode/64135/summary.html   (410 words)

  
 On the Trail of Laura Ingalls Wilder from South Dakota to Missouri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Wilders were married in De Smet in 1885, and Rose was born the next year.
Beset by years of drought and failed crops, a bout with diphtheria that sickened both Laura and Almanzo and left him crippled, the death of an infant son and a fire that destroyed their home, they decided to begin a new life elsewhere.
The $100 that led the Wilders to their dream of a better life proved a wise investment, and a generous one, for Laura continues to share it by teaching us of pioneer life in her books.
www.truewestmagazine.com /renegade-roads/rroads-04-05.htm   (2136 words)

  
 Farmer Boy : Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Story of a boy named Almanzo Wilder...While Laura Ingalls grows up on the western prairie, a boy named Almanzo Wilder is living on a farm in New York State.
Almanzo and his brother and sisters work at their chores from dawn until supper most days -- no matter what the weather.
She and her husband, Almanzo Wilder, made their own covered-wagon trip with their daughter, Rose, to Mansfield, Missouri.
www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/0060564989.html   (214 words)

  
 All About Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder has said that she and her sisters were busy and happy as children but loved Pa's stories the best.
Every Friday Almanzo Wilder arrives at the school to take her home.
Almanzo and Laura begin their married life on a homestead near De Smet and their daughter, Rose, is born.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0801303.html   (765 words)

  
 Laura Ingalls Wilder - Welcome
When LAURA INGALLS WILDER started writing her classic "Little House" book series in 1932, she had no idea of creating fame for herself or the places where she had lived.
She wrote simply to preserve tales of a lost era in American history, the pioneer period she vividly recalled from her growing-up years on the midwestern frontier in the 1870's and 1880's.
Immediately after Laura's death, the home she and her husband Almanzo built was preserved and opened for readers.
www.lauraingallswilder.com   (614 words)

  
 The Life and Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder, American Pioneer
In addition to describing Wilder's apprenticeship as a farm newspaper columnist and occasional magazine writer, he discusses her activities on her farm and as a citizen, playing out her many roles as wife, mother, chicken farmer, churchgoer, bridge player, seamstress, farm loan officer, and political candidate.
The true-life saga of Laura Ingalls Wilder is one of spirit and devotion in the face of bitter-cold winters, wilderness trails, and heartbreaking personal tragedy.
Noted Wilder historian Anderson has compiled a scrapbook of photos, mementos, early writings, letters, and drawings which are arranged by decade and explained in captions along with a succinct account of Laura's long and eventful life.
www.albany.edu /~jp349326/pathfinder.html   (7472 words)

  
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Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning her life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house.
And so Laura Ingalls Wilder's adventure as a little pioneer girl ends, and her new life as a pioneer wife and mother begins.
The farm pictures tend to be posed and repetitious; but for Wilder fans this volume will illuminate a facet of her life that is new for some readers.
members.tripod.com /starchaser_m/mg-liw.html   (1734 words)

  
 Laura Ingalls Wilder Timeline
Rose Wilder (Lane), Laura and Almanzo's daughter is born in Dakota Territory ("The First Four Years")
Laura and Almanzo live for a time with Almanzo's parents in Spring Valley, Minnesota, then move to Westfield in the panhandle of Florida for a short time.
Laura and Almanzo Wilder leave DeSmet, South Dakota and move to Mansfield, Missouri, purchase Rocky Ridge Farm.
www.dahoudek.com /LIW/liwtimeline.html   (1011 words)

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