Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in the late 1800's on the frontier of the United States. She wrote a whole series of books about her own childhood in which she chronicles pioneer life. Through the series we are taken from her early childhood (approximately age 5 in Little House in the Big Woods) all the way into early married life (The First Four Years). She is a very gifted story-teller and includes many details of everyday life that are particularly fascinating to us today who are so removed from that lifestyle.