The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.

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.