Read them all, too. Life on the prairie certainly wasn’t all fun and games. The books are pretty realistic and sometimes downright terrifying. And non-pc, too. Ma wasn’t exactly a fan of the Indians.
So true. My grandfather was a cowboy out in the Dakotas in the early 1900’s and he sent for my grandmother from Indianapolis IN. She went out on the train and they got married the day she arrived. She had waited for him for 7 years.
My grandfather had gotten a homestead and they had a sod hut (soddy) which I have seen a pic of. Its just like you see on the TV movies. My grandmother who was a tough Irish woman lasted one year. It was so bad she made my grandfather pack it up, sell out and they moved to Joplin MO where my dad was born. That was the end of that.
I have a first edition copy somewhere around the house. I read them all several times while growing up...an I’m a guy