Category: Laura Ingalls Wilder

When the Little House on the Prairie Met Disaster

January 15, 2023
American EssenceArts & CulturebooksBrightHistoryLaura Ingalls Wilderlittle house on the prairielocust
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Life on Plum Creek that June of 1875 looked bright as a new penny to Charles Ingalls, his wife Caroline, and their three young daughters. For months, the family had lived in a dugout on their homestead while Charles plowed fields for wheat and dug a well near the spot where he planned to build…

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Book Recommender: ‘Pioneer Girl,’ A Look into the Spellbinding, Never-Before-Published Manuscript of Laura Ingalls Wilder

December 13, 2022
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Few consider their circumstances or the era in which they live as distinct or significant until later-in-life reflection. This was the case for Laura Ingalls Wilder. Born in the Big Woods region of Wisconsin two years after the Civil War’s end, Wilder spent her childhood and adult life enduring every imaginable hardship and heartache in…

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Prairie Rose: A Bold Defender of American Liberty

July 17, 2022
"Let the Hurricane RoarArts & CultureArts & TraditionbooksBrightLaura Ingalls WilderLife & TraditionRose Wilder LaneWilliam Holtz
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Today, Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) is best remembered, if she is remembered at all, as the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the beloved “Little House” books, children’s stories that Rose helped shape and edit before they appeared in public. Rose Wilder Lane, circa 1905–1910. National Archives. (Public Domain) Yet Rose was a woman…

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