The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

After their marriage on August 25th, 1885, Laura and Almanzo Wilder moved into their bright new house on a Dakota homestead. In the four years that followed they experienced many hardships and pleasures, from struggling to prove their claim to the land, to the birth of their daughter Rose. Beginning where These Happy Golden Years ends, this story completes Mrs. Wilder's chronicle of frontier life, with its hardships and adventures, sorrows and joys.

Hardcover
Color Images
134 Pages
ISBN: 978-0-06-026426-0

About the author: Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in the log cabin described in Little House in The Big Woods. As her classic Little House books tell us, she and her husband, Almanzo Wilder, made their own covered-wagon trip with their daughter, Rose, to Mansfield, Missouri. There Laura wrote her story in the Little House books, and lived until she was ninety years old. For millions of readers, however, she lives forever as the little pioneer girl in the beloved Little House books.

Image description: The cover features an illustration of a family-a mom and dad, a baby, and a dog-standing in a grass field. The dad has a rope over his shoulder, the mom is holding the baby, and the baby is holding some flowers. The title and the illustrator's name are printed on the bottom, and the author's name is printed along the right side of the cover.