The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

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.