The first time anyone ever read a word written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, it was in the column she wrote for the Missouri Ruralist from around 1911 until the 1920s. She was a farm woman who thought about the life around her at home, about world events, family, and the international travels of her only child, Rose. Would she have written about her early life as a pioneering girl in a large family if she and her husband, Almanzo, hadn't lost so much during the Stock Market Crash of 1929? Yes, she ne
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