one hundred twenty years ago today
...Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder were married. According to historian William Anderson, Laura and Almanzo sat for a wedding photograph, which Laura sent to Harper and Brothers at some point and it was lost.

In These Happy Golden Years, Laura wrote that she and Almanzo moved their wedding date up because they didn't want his mother and sister to come to De Smet and plan/insist on a big wedding. The trouble with this is that readers usually assume the "sister in question" was Eliza Jane Wilder. According to the De Smet newspapers, Eliza Jane had returned to De Smet weeks prior to the August wedding date, so it's unlikely that this story is totally factual.

These Happy Golden Years also says that Laura and Almanzo were married on a Thursday. In 1885, however, August 25 fell on a Tuesday.
- posted by pioneergirl at 1:18 AM