And it reveals, not just her own journey, but a whole country on the move-trails clogged with covered wagons-hundreds of people leaving heartbreak and disappointment behind, daring to hope for a better life on the road ahead. Her diary reflects how her spirits lifted as they moved away from the harshness of the dusty prairie into a lavish landscape of trees and fruit. Throughout the 650-mile journey that took six weeks, Laura chronicled the weather, the people, and the places they saw. The Wilders’ move came after years of hardship in De Smet, South Dakota-drought and crop failure, a case of diphtheria that left Almanzo physically debilitated, the devastating loss of their infant son, and an accident that caused their house to burn down. We catch a glimpse of the real Laura Ingalls Wilder as a young wife and mother, in a diary that she kept during the summer of 1894 when she, her husband, Almanzo, and their seven-year-old daughter, Rose, moved from South Dakota to Missouri. When most people think of Laura Ingalls Wilder, they conjure up a young, fictionalized version of the author-a persona created in Little House on the Prairie, and other beloved children’s books that portrayed the hardscrabble life of an American pioneer family in the late-nineteenth century. Laura was, as author William Anderson says, a. America on the Move Laura Ingalls Wilder - A Journey from South Dakota to Missouri, 1894 The museum, also bearing the name of Rose Wilder Lane, Laura and Almanzo’s ambitious and successful daughter, is a treasure trove of memorabilia.
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