Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder(1999)

movie - first aired/released 1999-01-21 - 96 min - audience 7.0

Drama, Action, TV Movie

Directed by Marcus Cole

A version of the "Little House" stories that cover some of the events that take place in the last three books of the series and the book "The First Four Years" Laura is living on the prairie near De Smet, South Dakota and eventually meets the man that she will marry, Almanzo Wilder. Life, however, is not easy on the prairie and after a crop lost to hail, the loss of their baby son, the burning down of their house, and a terrible bout of diphtheria, the Wilders must make some hard choices about how to move on from the tragedies. Written by Anonymous