Little House in Dixie: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Life in the South

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) was an American writer best known for an autobiographical, though lightly fictionalized, series of children’s books, the Little House books, first published in 1932.The Little House books were based on the experiences of Laura and her family as pioneers in the American Midwest.From 1891 to 1892, however, Wilder lived in the US South with her husband, Almanzo, and young daughter, Rose, in Florida, just over the Alabama state line.In Little House in Dixie: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Life in the South, author Julie Hedgepeth Williams chronicles events that occurred following The First Four Years, Laura’s manuscript which was published posthumously as the last book in the Little House series. Hoping to find a warm climate and free homestead land that they could farm, the Wilders followed Laura’s cousins and Almanzo’s brother to Florida.Almost immediately things turned sour. Having arrived shortly after Laura’s cousin was married, the Wilders, especially Laura,