I grew up in the city, but I dreamed of covered wagons. Like countless kids, I read and reread the “Little House” series by Laura Ingalls Wilder while growing up, savoring the details of homemade ...

Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. The Pulitzer Prize for biography went today to a book about Laura Ingalls Wilder, who ...

Few modest lives have been so scrutinized as that of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), author of the cherished “Little House” books — beginning with Wilder herself, who came to autobiographical ...

From left: Carrie, Mary and Laura Ingalls in what is the first known photo of the sisters, taken about 1879. Carrie is believed to be wearing a string of Indian beads. Photo from Laura Ingalls Wilder ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The 90 years of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life (1867-1957) encompassed the Indian Wars and the Dust Bowl, desperate poverty and near-starvation, and grueling wagon travel across difficult terrain. Wilder ...

PRAIRIE FIRES: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder. By Caroline Fraser. Henry Holt. 625 pages. $35. Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the “Little House” books, had a recurring nightmare of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You likely know of the Ingalls family from the hit Western series, Little House on the Prairie, based on the books written by ...

The first known photograph of the three eldest Ingalls sisters, taken around 1879 or 1880. From left: Carrie, Mary and Laura. Carrie is believed to be wearing a string of American Indian beads, ...

The first time I stepped onto Ingalls Homestead in De Smet, South Dakota, the same plot of land Charles Ingalls farmed in the 1880s, a single thought overwhelmed me: Laura was here. Immediately, I ...