These Happy Golden Years Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder The "Little House" books tell the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder's life. She was born in 1867 in the little log cabin on the edgeof the Big Woods of Wisconsin, and through the years she traveled with her family by covered wagon through Kansas, Minnesota, and finally Dakota Territory, where she met and married Almanzo Wilder. — Laura, not yet sixt... more »een, takes a job teaching school in a drafty shanty twelve miles from home. It's a terrifying job. Most of her pupils are taller than she is-and she has to board with a hateful, crazed lady. Laura is miserable, but she must help to keep her blind sister Mary in school. And every Friday, when the school week is over, Almanzo arrives in his sleigh-come all twelve miles across desolate icy slough to take her home to her family for the weekend. Could it be love« less