Biography

The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Rose Wilder Lane page on 18 February 2026, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Lane was the first child of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo Wilder and the only child of her parents to survive into adulthood. Her early years were a difficult time for her parents because of successive crop failures, illnesses and chronic economic hardships. During her childhood, the family moved several times, living with relatives in Minnesota and then Florida and briefly returning to De Smet, South Dakota before settling in Mansfield, Missouri in 1894. There, her parents eventually established a dairy farm and fruit orchards. She attended secondary school in Mansfield and Crowley, Louisiana while living with her aunt Eliza Jane Wilder, graduating in 1904 from Crowley High School in a class of seven. Her intellect and ambition were demonstrated by her ability to compress three years of Latin into one and by graduating at the top of her high school class in Crowley. Despite her academic success, she was unable to attend college as a result of her parents' financial situation.

The threat of America's entry into World War I had seriously weakened the real estate market, so in early 1915 Lane accepted a friend's offer of a stopgap job as an editorial assistant on the staff of the San Francisco Bulletin. The stopgap turned into a watershed. She immediately caught the attention of her editors not only through her talents as a writer in her own right, but also as a highly skilled editor for other writers. Before long, her photo and byline were running in the Bulletin daily, churning out formulaic romantic fiction serials that ran for weeks at a time. Lane's first-hand accounts of the lives of Henry Ford, Charlie Chaplin, Jack London and Herbert Hoover were published in book form.

Publications

Date	Document	Details
1917 copyright year	Henry Ford’s Own Story How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power That Goes With Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch With Humanity	Book ( PDF) 3.0MB · 184 pages Author: Henry Ford,     as told to Rose Wilder Lane Publisher: Ellis O. Jones Topic: Henry Ford’s Own Story

Multimedia

Date	Title	Details
1917 book publication date	Henry Ford’s Own Story How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power That Goes With Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch With Humanity	Audiobook ( MP3) 239MB · 4:22:07 Authors: Henry Ford,     as told to Rose Wilder Lane Studio: Librivox Reader: Lee Ann Howlett