Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Played by	Melissa Gilbert
Gender	Female
Debut	Pilot Movie
Occupation	Teacher

Laura Ingalls Wilder is the second daughter of Charles and Caroline Ingalls. She has three sisters, Mary (older sister), Carrie (younger sister), and Grace Ingalls (youngest sister). When Laura was growing up she was the tomboy of the family, and enjoyed fishing and playing with her dog, Jack (who later died in the fourth season). Bandit was Laura's next dog, though Jack had a much longer life in the book series.

She also discovered the new location for the Blind School, it was an old courthouse inhabited by a man named Houston. In the sixth season of the show, Almanzo and his sister Eliza Jane Wilder moved to Walnut Grove. Later, Almanzo and Laura got married (many episodes were about this topic)

In the second episode of the show, Country Girls, Laura had her first encounter with Nellie Oleson. From this point on, Laura and Nellie were rivals, and usually always competed with each other (in one episode Laura and Nellie had a horse race, Laura won with her horse, Bunny).