What? Where did you read all this?
Her later autobiography ‘Prairie Fires’ and interviews she did about it reveal details of her childhood she felt didn’t belong in children’s books. Domestic abuse, alcoholism, shiftlessness, usury violations and abject poverty were all there. ‘Pa’ Ingalls was indeed cheerful and charming but he was also utterly impractical, hopping from one railroad scam scheme to another and dragging his family with, in poverty mostly. They had to leave at least one home in the dead of night, debts unpaid, to avoid prison. One or more homesteads were boldly illegal. Pa worked as a Saloon keeper for one dark period and a drunk molested Laura.
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