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Laura Ingalls Wilder Days

July 14th, 2009 Molly

The Wisconsin Historical Society has recently published on its website more than a dozen original letters written during the Civil War by relatives of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), author of Little House on the Prairie and other popular books for young readers.

The original handwritten documents are presented in color, accompanied by typed transcriptions, in the Society’s Turning Points in Wisconsin History digital collection. A lesson plan based on them has also been provided for the use of elementary school teachers who use the Little House books in the classroom.

For more information, and links to the letters, see the feature article at WisconsinHistory.org.  And you won’t want to miss the Society’s “Laura Ingalls Wilder Days” program at Old World Wisconsin, scheduled for July 25-26. It’s described in this YouTube video. 

Titles by and about Laura Ingalls Wilder can be found at the library, including:

Laura Ingalls Wilder by Emma Carlson Berne.
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Classic Stories by Barbara M. Walker.
and Prairie Girl: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson.

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