<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 does little house on the prairie take place
where does little house on the prairie take place
in the northern Midwestern United States during the 1870s and 1880s
in the northern Midwestern United States during the 1870s and 1880s