I grew up in the city, but I dreamed of covered wagons. Like countless kids, I read and reread the “Little House” series by Laura Ingalls Wilder while growing up, savoring the details of homemade ...
The 90 years of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life (1867-1957) encompassed the Indian Wars and the Dust Bowl, desperate poverty and near-starvation, and grueling wagon travel across difficult terrain. Wilder ...
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder is Caroline Fraser's engrossing biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, delving into the similarities between Wilder's life and the Little House ...
In summer 1930, Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of the then-unknown Laura Ingalls Wilder, wrote in her diary: “Working on my mothers [sic] story — stupidly, for will it come to anything?” Wilder had just ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. From left: Carrie, Mary and Laura Ingalls in what is the first known photo of the sisters, taken about 1879. Carrie is believed ...
The 150th anniversary of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s birth in 1867 is being honored everywhere by fans of her “Little House” tales, including at the annual Wilder Day celebration Sept. 16 at Wilder’s ...
It’s always fun to catch historical figures making hilariously bad predictions, and here’s a doozy. When Laura Ingalls Wilder was writing her Little House series of children’s books in the 1930s, her ...
PRAIRIE FIRES: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder. By Caroline Fraser. Henry Holt. 625 pages. $35. Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the “Little House” books, had a recurring nightmare of ...
I grew up in the city, but I dreamed of covered wagons. Like countless kids, I read and reread the “Little House” series by Laura Ingalls Wilder while growing up, savoring the details of homemade ...