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Official website of Little House on the Prairie® which serves as a home for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic books and the beloved television show.

Mary Ingalls, the sister to Laura Ingalls Wilder, who penned the beloved 'Little House on the Prairie' series, likely suffered from meningoencephalitis, caused by bacteria, a new study claims.

In 1974, the very popular show Little House on the Prairie first went on the air. After more than 200 episodes, the show was discontinued in the early 1980's and many fans were extremely disappointed. Why was the show cancelled at all?

Edith Florence Ingalls is mentioned only in passing by her nickname, Dolly, in The Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder. She was only a baby in the chapter entitled “Christmas.” But that’s a thrill enough for this great-great-grandchild of hers! But what’s even more

James was the son of Abel and Hannah Wilder. James was the father of Almanzo Wilder. Almanzo was the husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the Little House on the Prarie Books. You can read about James in the book titled Farmer Boy

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The new biography on Laura Ingalls Wilder entitled Prairie Fires: The American ream of Laura Ingalls Wilder is exhaustively researched and full of interesting facts about one of your favorite authors.

Charles Ingalls, father of Laura

In working with newspapers as we conducted background research for Pioneer Girl, we ran across a letter, dated February 2, 1880, from Charles Ingalls to the Brookings County Press that has gone unrecorded until now. In the 1870s and 1880s, newspapers relied on “correspondents” for news of outlying towns. For example, the Redwood Gazette of…

Fans of Wilder’s Little House books will treasure her autobiography, which illuminates the stories and spares no details of the pioneers’ sometimes difficult lives

Caroline Lake Quiner Ingalls, Eliza Ann Quiner Ingalls, and Martha Jane Quiner Carpenter

Melissa Gilbert and the hair stylist Larry Germain (1913-1981).

The Chronology of events in Laura Ingalls Wilders life and the historical context surrounding her experiences.

Here we see a better picture of "Ma and Pa" Ingalls in 1879, right after he accepted a railroad job in the eastern Dakota Territory. He would file a formal homestead request later that winter for land in De Smet, South Dakota, and the entire family would be moved there by 1880.

Victor French, Karen Grassle & the twins.

Rose Wilder Lane while traveling in Europe