![]() ![]() Both in the books and the popular TV show “Little House on the Prairie,” the Wilder family stories have become perhaps our most iconic portraits of the optimism and self-reliance of the frontier. She courageously helps her family fight fires, blizzards and drought she helps bring in the cows, dress a blackbird for supper and twist hay for the cookstove. The saga tells of a pioneer girl’s itinerant childhood traveling in covered wagons and starting new farms across the prairies-from Wisconsin to American Indian lands, Minnesota and Dakota Territory. Her new book, Libertarians on the Prairie, about the mother-daughter collaboration that created the Little House series, was released this month by Arcade Publishing.įor 84 years, American kids have been growing up with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s inspiring Little House books, reading brave tales of survival on the prairies in the 19 th century. Christine Woodside is a writer who also edits the journal Appalachia. ![]()
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