Farmer Boy By Laura Ingalls Wilder Almanzo lived

Farmer Boy By Laura Ingalls Wilder

Almanzo lived here Malone is located in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains close to the St. Lawrence River

Farmer Boy The boyhood home of Almanzo Wilder 1857 -1875 Burke, near Malone, NY The Wilder Homestead was the home of James Wilder and his family, including Almanzo Wilder, born February 13, 1857. His boyhood here would become the story of Farmer Boy, the second in the series of Little House books written by his wife, Laura Ingalls Wilder

There were three barns on the Wilder farm. The Horse Barn, the Big Barn for the cattle and oxen and the South Barn with the feed-room, the hog and calf pens and the threshing floor. On the east side of the barnyard was a high board fence. The barns are being rebuilt using plans that Almanzo drew for Laura when she was writing Farmer Boy.

whip

This is a yoke for full-grown oxen. Oxen were used to pull wagons, plows and other farm equipment.

Maple Syrup

Wintergreen berries

stray dog

sheep

nickel

bear

The stove in the parlor

Chester white pig

Oat Cradle

potato

pumpkin

Ox cart in the snow

pocketbook

wheelwright

A Morgan horse

Eventually, Almanzo moved to South Dakota along with his brother Royal, mentioned as a storekeeper in other Little House books, and his sister Eliza Jane was both a homesteader and a schoolteacher. Laura Ingalls was one of her pupils.