Laura Ingalls Wilder Research Paper

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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pioneer, author, frontierswoman, and perseverer of life. These are all things you may think about when you hear the name Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her childhood influenced her to become a teacher while her daughter influenced her to become an author.
During her childhood her family moved a lot. Her autobiography says that her life was not all unicorns and rainbows. Her family had to sneak out in the middle of the night in South Dakota after her father, Charles, had failed to pay rent. While moving around Laura saw and heard a lot of things. One time in Burr Oak Iowa (where her family ran a hotel) she witnessed a guy get blown up from all the whiskey on his breath. He went to smoke a cigar and blew up. She saw a shopkeeper

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