Home / Quotes / Quote by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Quote by Laura Ingalls Wilder

“So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.”

Quote by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Book:The little house treasury

Work

The little house treasury

This compilation brings together a variety of narratives that reflect the spirit and themes of Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic Little House on the Prairie series. It includes stories that delve into the lives of the Ingalls family and their neighbors, offering a glimpse into the pioneer era of the American Midwest. more

Author

Laura Ingalls Wilder

American writer, famous for her Little House on the Prairie series, which tells the story of her growth experience in the Midwest of the United States in the 19th century. Her works have won the hearts of readers and had a profound impact on later generations. more

You May Also Like

“The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.”

Attention Trouble Organization Folks Organized Little House On The Prairie Organizing Things

Book:Little Town on the Prairie

Source: Little Town on the Prairie

“A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.”

Source: The Little House Book of Memories

“But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.”

Sky Horse Woods East Gray Pale Uncles Easter Cousin Aunt Grandma Grandpa Wagons Lanterns Aunts And Uncles Little House On The Prairie

Book:The little house treasury

Source: The little house treasury

“Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.”

Eye Worst Blind Mary Fever Little House On The Prairie

Book:By the Shores of Silver Lake

Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake

“Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.”

Want Years Two Country Wanted Poor West Two Years Hunting Worn Worn Out Homesteading

Book:By the Shores of Silver Lake

Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake

“Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.”

Needs Littles House Bed Tables Chairs Wagons Little House On The Prairie Tables And Chairs

Book:The little house treasury

Source: The little house treasury

“Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.”

Helping Grace Baby Carrie Mary Fever Nelson Scarlet Baby Girl Creeks Laura

Book:By the Shores of Silver Lake

Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake

“So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.”

Littles Made Two Play Bigs House Behinds Tree Window Green Mary Roof Fence Oaks Summertime Shutters Laura Oak Tree

Book:The Little House Book of Memories

Source: The Little House Book of Memories

“The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.”

Way White Sky Edges Track Enormous Lakes Flats Gray Smooth Wagons Gray Skies

Book:The little house treasury

Source: The little house treasury

“There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.”

Men Animal Indian Feds Wild Animal Pastures Settlers

Book:Little house on the prairie

Source: Little house on the prairie