Laura Ingalls Wilder is celebrated for her autobiographical fiction that recorded the expansion of the American frontier into the Midwest. Born in 1867 in a Wisconsin log cabin, she and her family moved to Indian country in Kansas, then to Minnesota and finally to South Dakota, where her father took a railroad job.
American Masters
Laura Ingalls Wilder published her debut novel at age 65, drawing from her childhood experiences on the American frontier, which would eventually become the beloved "Little House" series.
