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Rose Lane Says: Thoughts on Race, Liberty, and Equality, 1942–1945
In Rose Lane Says, editors David T. Beito and Marcus Witcher provide annotations and an excellent introduction to Lane’s columns, which until now have been next to impossible to locate.
Little House Life Hacks: Lessons for the Modern Pioneer from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Prairie
Little House Life Hacks blends Laura Ingalls Wilder’s timeless teachings with her surprisingly timely penchant for homesteading, crafting, and the lifestyle we now call Cottagecore.
Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power
The Osage empire, as most histories claim, was built by Osage men’s prowess at hunting and war. But, as Tai S. Edwards observes in Osage Women and Empire, Osage cosmology defined men and women as necessary pairs. In their society, hunting and war, like everything else, involved both men and women. Only by studying the gender roles of...
Pioneer Girl: The Path Into Fiction
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Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane on the Path into Fiction
In mid-February 1931, Laura Ingalls Wilder found a surprise in her rural Missouri mailbox—a letter from New York publisher Alfred A. Knopf. Opening the letter, Wilder discovered that editor Marion Fiery, the head of the children’s department at Knopf, had very much enjoyed her manuscript “When Grandma Was a Little Girl” and wanted the...
Recommended Reading for Adults
As a researcher and biographer of Laura Ingalls Wilder, I’ve found the work of other Wilder authors and scholars both essential and illuminating. Listed below are titles that explore different areas of her life and work, often bringing entirely new and unexpected interpretations to a wide range of Wilder topics. The list includes...
My First Little House Books
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Books by Rose Wilder Lane
In the history of literature, there’s nothing quite like the relationship between Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter, the journalist Rose Wilder Lane. One of the most remarkable things about the Little House books is how the series grew out of their close and often contentious relationship. Even before their collaboration, Rose was...
The Rose Wilder Lane Series
Roger Lea MacBride, the “adopted grandson” and heir of Rose Wilder Lane, was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1929. His father, Burt MacBride, was an editor for Reader’s Digest when Rose wrote for the magazine, and he introduced his teenage son to the author. Roger loved to listen to Rose’s stories and political theories, and the two...
Pioneer Girl: The Revised Texts
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Where the World is Topsy-Turvy: Rose Wilder Lane after the Great War
It was a faith that made one humble, and a little ashamed… Rose Wilder Lane, “The Children’s Crusade,” Good Housekeeping, November 1920.In the spring of 1920, not long after “The War to End War” staggered to its empty close, Rose Wilder Lane boarded the ship St. Paul in New York and steamed for Paris. Recently divorced, hungry for new...
Laura Ingalls Wilder & Rose Wilder Lane: The Beginning of a Fruitful, Fateful Collaboration
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Young Pioneers
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Woman’s Day Book of American Needlework
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The Dancer of Sahmakha
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Henry Ford’s Own Story: How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power That Goes With Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch With Humanity, As Told to Rose Wilder Lane
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The Making of Herbert Hoover
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The Story of Art Smith
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Let the Hurricane Roar
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Old Home Town
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The Discovery of Freedom: Man’s Struggle Against Authority
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Give Me Liberty
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Free Land
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Diverging Roads
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Travels With Zenobia: Paris to Albania by Model T Ford: A Journal
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Dorothy Thompson and Rose Wilder Lane: Forty Years of Friendship, Letters, 1921-1960
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Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Impact on American Culture
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The Rediscovered Writings of Rose Wilder Lane, Literary Journalist
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Little House on Rocky Ridge
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Little Farm in the Ozarks
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In the Land of the Big Red Apple
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Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little Town: Where History and Literature Meet
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West From Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915
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A Little House Sampler
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Libertarians on the Prairie
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Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond
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