“…I helped put in the corn, and on the hills I picked green huckleberries to make a pie. I picked ripe huckleberries, walked a mile and a half to town, and sold them for ten cents a gallon. Blackberries too,” Rose Wilder Lane said. Rose, the daughter of Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder, was recalling her berry picking days at the family homestead in the Ozarks of Missouri. They had moved there from the Dakota Territory during the Panic of 1893. Berries grew w
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