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Five things you didn't know about Laura Ingalls Wilder
mps ^ | 1-10-15 | Tracy Mumford

Posted on 01/13/2015 4:48:15 AM PST by TurboZamboni

Laura Ingalls Wilder is legendary. Her "Little House on the Prairie" series, based on her family's adventures on the Midwestern frontier, have sold more than 41 million copies in the U.S. and have been translated into more than 40 languages.

The books spawned a long-running television show and, in 2008, a stage musical.

Millions of readers have been captivated by Wilder's childhood on the prairie, but her newest book, "Pioneer Girl," released more than 50 years after her death, offers a new perspective.

Annotated with exceptional detail by Pamela Smith Hill, "Pioneer Girl" is Wilder's autobiography, unpublished until now. Hill's extensive research, and Wilder's own words, unveil new details about her life beyond the prairie.

(Excerpt) Read more at mprnews.org ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; History
KEYWORDS: autobiography; books; ingalls; lauraingallswilder; pioneergirl; pioneerwoman; wilder
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To: norwaypinesavage
only a few miles from what is now "Lake Woebegone Trail"

You musta been from near Freeport....wifey grew up in New Munich.

21 posted on 01/13/2015 7:02:08 AM PST by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: Straight Vermonter
Among Rose Wilder Lane's works of fiction was Let the Hurricane Roar (New York: Longmans, 1932), the story of a young couple who homestead on the Great Plains in the 1870's and which is partly autobiographical. It was later re-issued under the title Young Pioneers and made into a TV series in the 1970's.
22 posted on 01/13/2015 7:04:16 AM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: ExCTCitizen

One thing ruined the TV show for me, and that was Pa’s crying. Almost every episode, he was bawling about something.


23 posted on 01/13/2015 7:08:12 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: ErnBatavia

A bit south of there at Forrest City. It was a thriving metropolis of about fifty people at the time. I think it’s a little smaller, now.


24 posted on 01/13/2015 7:21:45 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: machogirl

According to the Indian that warned them, it was cyclic - every 17 years or something like that.


25 posted on 01/13/2015 7:26:52 AM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: uncitizen

Another author who was somewhat like her and had similar views against socialism/communism, was the man who wrote “The Devil and Daniel Webster”. I can’t figure out why they didn’t mention him in this article! I know this article was written about Lane and her contemporaries, and he could’ve done his works earlier in the century. I think his name was Stephen St. Vincent-Benet?

He was very worried about communism getting into the country, and was very much against it. Much of his work illustrated his concern, and warned against it. However, I don’t know what his political leanings were.


26 posted on 01/13/2015 7:34:41 AM PST by dsutah
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To: wally_bert

Even Sesame street................


27 posted on 01/13/2015 7:39:40 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

I have always hated Sesame Street ever since I can remember. As a kid, I preferred Perry Mason reruns and still do.


28 posted on 01/13/2015 7:44:49 AM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: wally_bert

It was stupid, and still is......................


29 posted on 01/13/2015 7:46:01 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: TurboZamboni

Thanks for posting this and the wander down memory lane.
Loved the books growing up but always had a problem with her courting a guy with the name Almanzo...


30 posted on 01/13/2015 7:48:41 AM PST by matginzac
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To: CatherineofAragon

On the WKRP episode “Real Families”, Herb’s wife said it was her favorite show since people were always getting incurable diseases, going blind and such.

Never cared for little house or father Murphy.


31 posted on 01/13/2015 7:49:33 AM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Red Badger

Glad I’m not the only one who thought that way. I will have to give them Special Letters Unit.


32 posted on 01/13/2015 7:52:31 AM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Fiji Hill

I thought that the current consensus was that Rose wrote the Little House books, based on stories provided by Laura. But authorship credit was given to Laura with Rose being identified as editor.


33 posted on 01/13/2015 7:53:36 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: CatherineofAragon

Cath, never watched the show just because of that and the overall messing with one of my favorite series growing up...
I feel that way today about the Starz series “Outlander” which I have thoroughly enjoyed (the first four volumes). Can’t stand what they have done in the series so won’t watch anymore.
Another great series for girls/women that they did well in the movies (first two movies) is the “Anne of Green Gables” series by Lucy Maud Montgomery...great insight into Canadian history and while starting as a book for girls, evolves into books for women. The last one is a real tear jerker! Loved it.
Cheers!


34 posted on 01/13/2015 7:56:01 AM PST by matginzac
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To: dsutah

Thank you. I’ll check him out.


35 posted on 01/13/2015 7:58:15 AM PST by uncitizen (2015 Here we come!)
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To: wally_bert

This post has been brought to you by the letters F and U and two S’s..................


36 posted on 01/13/2015 8:38:29 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Little Ray

thank you for the info!
(no “glo-bull” warming)


37 posted on 01/13/2015 9:52:12 AM PST by machogirl
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To: Mrs. B.S. Roberts

read later.....


38 posted on 01/13/2015 10:23:03 AM PST by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: wally_bert

Yeah, it was pretty melodramatic.


39 posted on 01/13/2015 1:01:30 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: matginzac

I missed Anne of Green Gables, though I’ve heard very good things about it.


40 posted on 01/13/2015 1:02:27 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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