Little House Sampler: A Collection of Early Stories and Reminiscences (Little House Series)
For everyone who loves the Little House books—a reissue of a charming collection of early stories and reminiscences by Laura Ingalls Wilder, along with essays and writings from her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, who was an award-winning writer.\ This charming collection of early stories contains many never before published newspaper pieces, stories and essays by Laura Ingalls and Rose Wilder. Inspiring the popular series, these works are a vivid and personal testament to American life and...
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For everyone who loves the Little House books—a reissue of a charming collection of early stories and reminiscences by Laura Ingalls Wilder, along with essays and writings from her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, who was an award-winning writer. This charming collection of early stories contains many never before published newspaper pieces, stories and essays by Laura Ingalls and Rose Wilder. Inspiring the popular series, these works are a vivid and personal testament to American life and history as seen by two remarkable pioneers. Publishers Weekly In this chronological arrangement of their autobiographical writings, gathered from many sources, including newspapers, magazines and abandoned manuscripts, we view the literary careers of a mother and daughter who carried on the family tradition of storytelling. Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose prairie girlhood and travels in the Dakota Territory in the early 1880s became the foundation for nine popular Little House books and the long-running Little House on the Prairie TV series, began her professional career, at the insistence of her daughter, when she was in her 60s. Although she departed from the much-loved family farm in the Ozarks to forge a literary career in New York, daughter Rose ( Free Land , Old Home Town ) drew on her early memories as well. Laura's writings promote the virtues and happiness to be found in hard work and simple things. Rose's fiction does not evade the harsh realities of homesteading or the difficulties encountered by her undeniably happy parents. In the various genres represented herearticles and essays, stories and poemsone hears again the voices of the last pioneering families. Photos not seen by PW. (August)
List of IllustrationsviiPrefaceixPrologue1Let's Visit Mrs. Wilder7Rose Wilder Lane, by Herself11A Bouquet of Wild Flowers15How Laura Got Even19Burr Oak, a Lovely Place24Thanksgiving Time29According to Experts33Home for Christmas36Innocence40Memories of Grandma's House55Grandpa's Fiddle59From Missouri87The Ozark Years88Laura's Land Congress Speech96Favors the Small Farm Home99The Story of Rocky Ridge Farm104So We Moved the Spring108It Depends on How You Look at It111Faces at the Window115A Place in the Country126My Ozark Kitchen136The Farm Dining Room143An Actual Noon Dinner in the Ozarks148Autumn150Thirty-Mile Neighbors161The Sunflower172My Work174Object, Matrimony181Dakota Territory in the 1870s and around 1880200Laura's Book Fair Speech215The Land of Used-to-Be224The Dakota Prairies231Epilogue235
\ Laura Ingalls Wilder"I realized that I had seen and lived it all—all the successive phases of the frontier. . . . that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history. . . . It seemed to me that my childhood had been much richer and more interesting that that of children today even with all the modern inventions and improvements. I wanted the children now to understand more about the beginnings of things, to know what is behind the things they see—what it is that made America as they know it. Then I thought of writing the story of my childhood in several volumes—an eight-volume historical novel for children covering every aspect of the American frontier."—Laura Ingalls Wilder on the evolution of her Little House books\ \ \ \ \ Rose Wilder Lane"The longest lives are short. It is our work that lasts longer."—Rose Wilder Lane\ \
