Rose Wilder Lane (1886 - 1968) is the author of Chapters 1 and 3 of the text. Born in De Smet, South Dakota, Lane moved with her family several times before living again in De Smet and then leaving for Mansfield, Missouri, on the journey recorded in the book. Lane was the first, and only surviving, child of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo Wilder and is about eight years old during the voyage described in the book. Lane attended school in De Smet and attended high schools in Mansfield and Louisiana. In her latter life, not discussed in the book, she became famous as an author, journalist, and political theorist. Lane's autobiographical contributions to the book consist entirely of recollections of her childhood and her parents' early lives.
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