Don’t forget Laura herself lost her only son when he was about 10 days old. So Ma, Laura, and Rose. I always wondered how Ma and Pa’s fortunes would have been different had Pa had someone to help him support the family.
Yeah, I missed one.
Pa was a fairly shiftless character. They tried to gloss that over in the biographies, but I could see it.
Laura was the tomboy and nothing could shake her love for Pa.
Michael Landon gave the totally wrong impression.