HNY-13 Little House On the Prairie Traditional Cache
Hidden : 12/14/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This cache was placed for the Roseville, MI
"HNY-13 New Years Day Event" (GC3XZM4)



The original book cover.

It is just a simple one room cabin on the prairie. But the prairie with it’s open skies, seemingly endless horizon and tall grasses waving in the Kansas wind attracted homesteaders from all over the world.  In 1869 a young family from the woods of Wisconsin arrived to settle.  When Charles P. Ingalls, his wife Caroline Lake Quiner Ingalls and their daughters Mary, Laura and Carrie camped on the Kansas prairie little did they know it would change their lives and children’s literature forever.



Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was born in Wisconsin on February 7, 1867, was an American author who wrote the Little House series of books based on her childhood in a pioneer family.  Her family moved around, travelling from Missouri to Kansas, Minnesota and back to Wisconsin.

Laura's formal education was irregular due to her family often living in isolated areas but eventually the family settled in De Smet, Dakota Territory and Laura worked regularly as a seamstress and teacher.  She stopped working when she married Almanzo Wilder in 1885. Her daughter was the novelist and journalist Rose Wilder Lane, who inspired Laura to write her books.  Little House in the Big Woods was first published in 1932 and Little House on the Prairie in 1935, and five more books in the Little House series followed.
Laura also wrote Farmer Boy about her husband's childhood, and three more books were published posthumously.

Laura was celebrated during her lifetime and her books considered great literature. She was five times the recipient of the Newbery Honor Award for her distinguished contribution to American literature for children: On the Banks of Plum Creek (1938), By the Shores of Silver Lake (1940), The Long Winter (1941), Little Town on the Prairie (1942), These Happy Golden Years (1944).

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born seven miles north of the village of Pepin, in the "Big Woods" of Wisconsin, to Charles Phillip Ingalls and Caroline Lake (Quiner) Ingalls. She was the second of five children; her siblings were Mary Amelia, who went blind; Caroline Celestia, Charles Frederick, who died in infancy, and Grace Pearl. Her birth site is commemorated by a log cabin, the Little House Wayside. Her life here formed the basis for the book Little House in the Big Woods.

She passed away February 10, 1957 just after her 90th birthday.



Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s. The show is an adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's best-selling series of 'Little House' books. Television producer and NBC executive Ed Friendly became aware of the story in the early 1970s. He asked Michael Landon to direct the pilot movie, who agreed on the condition that he could also play Charles Ingalls.

The regular series was preceded by the two-hour pilot movie, which first aired on March 30, 1974. The series began on the NBC network on September 11, 1974, and ended on May 10, 1982. During the 1982-83 television season, with the departure of Michael Landon and Karen Grassle, the series was broadcast with the new title Little House: A New Beginning.

Original 5-member cast of the TV show

The show's central characters are Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), farmer and patriarch, with his wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle), and four daughters, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), Laura (Melissa Gilbert), Carrie (Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush) and Grace (Wendi and Brenda Turnbaugh), later adding adopted children Albert (Matthew Laborteaux), Cassandra (Missy Francis) and James (Jason Bateman).

The nearby building is dedicated to Laura Ingalls Wilder as well as the many hours you could spend while diving into the literary works of our time.

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