I realized that I had seen and lived it all--all the successive phases of the frontier, first the frontiersman, then the pioneer, then the farmers, and the towns."
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born in the "Big Woods" near Pepin, Wisconsin, on 7 February 1867, to Charles Philip and Caroline Lake Quiner Ingalls, a young homesteading couple. Charles's family had moved to Wisconsin from New York state when he was a boy; Caroline's family were originally from Connecticut, though she herself was born in Wisconsin. Charles had grown up in the Wisconsin woods near the Oconomowoc River and had learned the frontiersman's skills: hunting, trapping, farming, felling trees, and building dwellings and crafting their furnishings. In addition to these practical abilities, Charles Ingalls was also an accomplished violinist and singer, enlivening many gatherings with his music making and good spirits.
Caroline Quiner received her teaching certificate at the age of sixteen; she loved reading and writing poetry and other compositions and, in the words of her daughter Laura, "was proud and particular in all matters of good breeding." Charles and Caroline raised the close, affectionate family that was later immortalized in the Little House books, written in loving tribute by their daughter Laura many years after the pioneering adventure ended.
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