Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1999)

Name: Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Genre: Action, Drama
Released: 1999-01-21

1h 36m

Running Time

Plot.

A version of the "Little House" stories that cover some of the events that take place in the last three books of the series and the book "The First Four Years" Laura is living on the prairie near De Smet, South Dakota and eventually meets the man that she will marry, Almanzo Wilder. Life, however, is not easy on the prairie and after a crop lost to hail, the loss of their baby son, the burning down of their house, and a terrible bout of diphtheria, the Wilders must make some hard choices about how to move on from the tragedies. Written by Anonymous

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Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Details.

Release Date
January 21, 1999

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 36m

Genres
Action Drama

Last updated: 2025-05-08

Wiki.

Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder and its sequel Beyond the Prairie II: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues, are television films shown in two parts, which presented episodes from Laura Ingalls Wilder's later books in the Little House on the Prairie series (from The Long Winter to The First Four Years).

The first film was shot in 1999 and aired on CBS on January 2, 2000. The second was filmed between March–April 2001 in Texas, and was initially scheduled to air on CBS on Sunday, November 4, 2001, but was postponed when CBS instead broadcast the Emmys. It was rescheduled to air on CBS on March 17, 2002.