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These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Age: 90 †
Born: 1867
Born: February 7
Died: 1957
Died: February 10
Autobiographer
Journalist
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Wisconsin
United States
Laura Ingalls
Lansford Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
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