You can go to a house in Mansfield, Missouri and see the desk where Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote books about her frontier childhood.
This past April, 2007 marked the 75th anniversary of the first publication of "Little House in the Big Woods", the story of her life as a child in a cabin in Wisconsin. This launched a nine book series and an award-winning TV series that ran on NBC from 1974-1983.
The series has sold more than 41 million books in the US and has been translated into more than 40 languages.
She and her husband Almanzo spent half of their adult lives there. The Wilders bought the 400 acre farm in 1894 for $400 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic House and Museum gets 40,000 visitors a year.
She was in her 60s when she first started writing and it was at first turned down
I have never read any of the books, but sure liked the TV series, something I watched along with "The Waltons" every week. Loved that Mr. Edwards and who could forget dear little Nellie. The best episode was when Laura thought Mr. Oleson had killed his wife.
May 6, 2007 Chicago Tribune "Tears flow over 'Little House' by Marcus Kabe, AP
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