Laura Ingalls Wilder

or ($500) Five Hundred Dollars to us in hand paid we each and severally sell and convey to Mrs. E.J.W. [Eliza Jane Wilder] Thayer, widow of Thomas Thayer, deceased, interests in the estate of our Father James Wilder, deceased.
Almanzo J. Wilde

He liked to see the little fawns and their mothers looking at him from the shadowy woods, and the fat, lazy bears eating berries in the wild-berry patches

All alone in the wild Big Woods, and the snow, and the cold, the little log house was warm and snug and cosy. Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie were comfortable and happy there, especially at night.