Abbotsford House of the house. It had electricity installed only in 1962. Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics. In 2005, Scottish Borders Council was considering an application by a property developer to build a housing estate on the opposite bank of the River Tweed from Abbotsford, to which Historic Scotland and the National
Little House on the Prairie: The Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder because she thinks them unsuitable for children, like the death her baby brother, Fredrick, when she was just ten-years-old. Drawing further upon her childhood experiences, she writes "Little House on the Prairie" about life on the Kansas prairie which is published in 1935; "On the Banks of Plum Creek" about Walnut Grove, Minnesota (published 1937); then four books about De Smet, South Dakota, "By the Shores of Silver Lake" (published 1939); "The Long Winter" (published 1940), "Little Town on the Prairie" (published 1941), and publishes the last book of the series about entering young adulthood, "These Happy Golden Years", in