We follow Laura into the wilds of a new marriage and the greater wilderness of life beyond the protection of her loving family. And yet the moment when Almanzo drives Laura away from the Ingalls family, the story of the little girl who grew up “once upon a time.in the Big Woods” becomes a fairy tale interrupted. Thanks to Farmer Boy, her memoir of her husband’s childhood years, they knew her husband almost as intimately as they knew her. Readers of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series realized from the start that Laura would marry. She and her groom drove off in their buggy, a soft-eyed milk cow trailing behind, a gift from her Pa to remind his daughter of home. (A day earlier, the bride had herself whipped the meringue buttercream by hand.) Then the bride bid her family farewell. Afterward, the bride’s family toasted the newlyweds over a simple supper and cake. The ceremony was private, just the bride, the groom and Reverend Brown. The bride wore black cashmere, her dress wrong for both the occasion and the season.
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