<P> Based on the autobiographical `` Little House '' stories , episodes of Little House on the Prairie usually concern members of the Ingalls family , who live on a small farm near the village of Walnut Grove , Minnesota . Many episodes concern the maturation of the family 's second daughter , Laura . However , episodes also focus on other family and community members , providing a depiction of life in a small agrarian community in late nineteenth - century America . The show 's central characters are Charles Ingalls ( farmer and mill worker ) , his wife Caroline , and their four daughters , Mary , Laura , Carrie , and Grace , though the family expands with the addition of adopted son Albert in season five and adopted siblings Cassandra and James at the end of season seven . </P>
<P> Based on the autobiographical `` Little House '' stories , episodes of Little House on the Prairie usually concern members of the Ingalls family , who live on a small farm near the village of Walnut Grove , Minnesota . Many episodes concern the maturation of the family 's second daughter , Laura . However , episodes also focus on other family and community members , providing a depiction of life in a small agrarian community in late nineteenth - century America . The show 's central characters are Charles Ingalls ( farmer and mill worker ) , his wife Caroline , and their four daughters , Mary , Laura , Carrie , and Grace , though the family expands with the addition of adopted son Albert in season five and adopted siblings Cassandra and James at the end of season seven . </P>
when did little house on the prarie take place
when did little house on the prarie take place
late nineteenth - century
late nineteenth - century