Building a little house on the prairie
1884
This 1884 document records the sworn statements of Almanzo Wilder that he had built a “12 ft. square frame” house in the Dakota Territory and was cultivating the land. Wilder had established the 160-acre homestead five years earlier, through the Homestead Act. It was his first home with his wife, Laura Ingalls Wilder—author of Little House on the Prairie.
National Archives, Records of the Bureau of Land Management
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Educational Resources
- Teaching With Documents: Little House in the Census - Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Teaching With Documents: The Homestead Act of 1862
