was Little house on the prairie about real people?

Yes, Laura Ingalls Wilder is a real person. The tv show is based upon her life. Read the books. They are very good.

Yes, the Little House on the Prairie Books are based on the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who was a child in Wisconsin and grew up in Minnesota and South Dakota. Some literary license was probably taken in the writing of the books and even more dramatic license was taken in the production of the television series.

The show was based on books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. How true the books are, only Mrs. Wilder knew for sure.

The Little House series was written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and based on decades-old memories of her childhood in the Midwest region of the United States during the late 19th century.

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You can travel along US Rt. 14 through Minnesota and into South Dakota and visit many of the sites mentioned in the books, her parents are buried in DeSmet, South Dakota and there is a site there that has preserved some of the original buildings and sites that does a pageant every year as well. The Ingalls family was quite real and the stories are as accurate as Laura wanted them to be.

When LAURA INGALLS WILDER started writing her classic "Little House" book series in 1932, she had no idea of creating fame for herself or the places where she had lived. She wrote simply to preserve tales of a lost era in American history, the pioneer period she vividly recalled from her growing-up years on the midwestern frontier in the 1870's and 1880's. When Laura completed her eight-volume series in 1943, she had achieved a lasting and substantial literary picture of pioneer life as she had experienced it in Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, and South Dakota.

"I had no idea I was writing history," Laura remarked when her books were well known both in America and in foreign countries where they were translated. (The books are now printed in over 40 languages.) But readers of all ages accepted the Ingalls and Wilder families as chosen friends. Thousands wrote to Laura at her home on Rocky Ridge Farm in Mansfield, Missouri. Fans sought out the sites of her books and stopped to visit her in her Ozark Mountain home, right up to her death in 1957 at the age of 90.

The books were and most of the TV show was based on real people.

Yes it was. They have Laura Wilder's actual series in public libraries.

yes but the show was only based on the book.

yes it was based on true lives there is also a series of books that laura wrote........the books are different than the series. check it out