Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.

The book remains in print today as Young Pioneers. List of craters on Venus – Wilder crater located on the planet Venus was named after her. She is also a descendant of the Delano family and Edmund Rice a 1638 immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Laura's daughter Rose inspired Laura to write her books.