<P> Little House on the Prairie is a series of American children 's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder based on her childhood in the northern Midwestern United States during the 1870s and 1880s . Eight were completed by Wilder , and published by Harper & Brothers from 1932 and 1943 , of which the last covers her courtship with Almanzo Wilder and one covers his childhood . The first draft of a ninth novel was published posthumously in 1971 and is commonly included in the Little House series . </P>
<P> Little House on the Prairie is a series of American children 's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder based on her childhood in the northern Midwestern United States during the 1870s and 1880s . Eight were completed by Wilder , and published by Harper & Brothers from 1932 and 1943 , of which the last covers her courtship with Almanzo Wilder and one covers his childhood . The first draft of a ninth novel was published posthumously in 1971 and is commonly included in the Little House series . </P>
where was little house on the prairie located
where was little house on the prairie located
northern Midwestern United States
northern Midwestern United States