Laura taught three terms of school, each one lasting two months, all of them in one-room schoolhouses near DeSmet. Laura taught school mainly to help her family keep her older sister Mary in the college for the blind in Iowa. She earned $40 for her first school, and $75 for her third and last. Laura might have continued to teach, but like many women in that time and place, she stopped working outside the home after getting married.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's family started out in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, where Laura was born in 1867. They later moved to Kansas, then to Minnesota, and finally settled in De Smet, South Dakota.
Laura Ingalls Wilder started teaching in the town of De Smet, South Dakota. She taught in a one-room schoolhouse where she had to instruct students of various ages and grades.
Her daughter Rose influenced her to write them when she was sixty years old.
Rose, her daughter, wrote a letter saying that she should so she doesn't forget her life on the prairie.
Laura Ingalls Wilder was 81 years old when the Great Depression began in 1929. Born in 1867, she experienced many changes throughout her lifetime, including the challenging economic times of the 1930s.
Laura Ingalls Wilder began writing her "Little House" series in her 60s, starting with "Little House in the Big Woods" published in 1932. The series is based on her experiences growing up on the American frontier in the late 19th century.
To enhance the dramatic effect, Laura (or her editor, her daughter Rose) said in Little Town on the Prairie that Laura got her teaching certificate on December 24th, 1882, when Laura was fifteen. Actually, her first teaching certificate, which can be seen in William Anderson's book Laura's Album, is dated December 8, 1883. She was actually sixteen - the legal age - when she started teaching.
she told Laura to start writing books about her life
The Olson's moved to Walnut Grove to start a new life and pursue new opportunities. They wanted a fresh start and believed that Walnut Grove would provide a better environment for their family.
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The Wilder's initially lived on Almanzo's claim north of De Smet. They also lived for a year with her in-laws in Spring Valley, Minnesota and in panhandle of Florida for about ten months. Then they returned to De Smet to live and work until they had saved enough money to make a new start somewhere else. They eventually settled in Mansfield, Missouri for the remainder of their lives.
She began from the Netherlands.