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Missouri History Today August 25, 1885: Famed Writer With Ozark Legacy Marries In The Midwest

by Missouri Life

Laura and Almanzo Wilder were married on this date in 1885 in South Dakota. The couple made famous in the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder later moved to Missouri’s Ozarks, where they farmed on 200 acres, according to Biography.com. 

Photo credit: Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Replica of “The Little House in the Big Woods” at the Laura Ingalls Wilder House, Pepin, Wisconsin. United States Wisconsin Pepin, None. [Between 1980 and 2006] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2011630628/.