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by William Anderson


  stealing Christmas trees business, 149–50

  Wilder family traveling to, 5–7

  See also Mansfield, Missouri; Rocky Ridge Farm, Mansfield, Missouri

  Missouri Ruralist, 9, 16–17, 23, 26–27, 33

  “Missouri Showed Them, And,” 17

  Missouri State Historical Society, 68

  Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider, 295–96

  Morgan, Alfred and Lydia, 366–67

  motion picture rights, 216–17, 224

  Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, 62

  Moyston, Guy, 53–54

  Mundy, Talbot, 110, 114

  Murray, Corrine, 83, 94, 113, 206

  Murray, Jack, 83, 86, 206

  “My Ozark Kitchen,” 33

  Myre, Alvilda, 81

  National Economic Council’s Review of Books (Lane, ed.), 310

  Near East Relief, Rose working for, 29–30

  Nebraska, 6

  Neihardt, John, 79

  Nevada, 44

  New York City Society of South Dakotans, 232

  New York Herald Tribune Spring Book Festival Award, 248

  New York Post, 142

  Newbery-Caldecott dinner, 367

  Newman, Patricia, 227

  News and Leader, De Smet, 5–7

  Nordstrom, Ursula

  cyclones in Missouri, 271–72

  gifts from, 327, 335, 357, 373

  hired as Raymond’s assistant, 99

  Horn Book article, 258

  Horn Book Christmas issue dedication to Little House books, 355–57

  and Horn Book Magazine article, 253–54

  and Laura Ingalls Wilder Award ceremony, 362, 365–66

  Laura reporting on progress, 243–47

  and Little House special edition, 352–53

  and The Long Winter, 215

  spelling error in By the Shores of Silver Lake, 292

  and Syracuse library young reader department, 293–94

  and These Happy Golden Years, 243–47, 251

  nuclear weapons testing, 278, 279

  Ogden, Walter, 57

  Ohio state purchasing 3,500 special edition copies of Little House, 235

  Old Settlers Day, De Smet, 55–56, 207, 223, 232

  Older, Fremont, 51

  Oleson, Nellie, 167, 169, 245, 284

  On the Banks of Plum Creek

  blizzards, 88–89, 94–96, 164–66

  cattle runaway, 89, 93

  description of Plum Creek, 90–92

  grasshoppers, 95–96

  Kennedy family member reconnects, 301–2

  Laura’s collaboration with Rose, xv

  Laura’s success prior to, 60

  location of house, 320, 339–40

  request for autograph, 135–36

  royalty rate, 97–99

  as “Top-notcher of 1937” in New York Post, 142

  Wilder-Lane letters on, 87–93, 94–97

  writing of, 75–76

  On the Way Home from Laura’s diary, 378

  Ozarks, 9–10, 305

  Ozarks, traveling to or from, 5–7, 60–62

  Pacific Ocean, 12

  Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, xv, 10–11, 12–13, 16–17

  Panzram, Miss, 324–25

  Parkhurst, Genevieve, 63–64

  Patterson, O. S., 21

  Pearson, Miss, 223

  penny postcards, 8

  Pepin, Wisconsin, 321

  Perry School, De Smet area, South Dakota, 344–45

  Pettis, Miss, 78–79

  Phillips, Miss, 67

  Phraner, Mrs., 247–48

  Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, xiii, 26, 59–60, 178–79

  Plum Creek, Minnesota, 90–92, 119, 350–51. See also On the Banks of Plum Creek

  political letters

  apathy of citizens, 112–13

  Congressman Kilburn, 267–70

  F.D.R.’s birthday party, 192

  on General Motors strike, 140

  on government handouts, 293

  on Hitler, 196

  Laura’s statement to voters for tax collector position, 31–32

  Roosevelt and New Deal, 111, 193–94

  support for N.J. Craig, 22

  politics, Rose writing about, 256–57

  Pollard, Mrs. Eugene, 362–63

  Pomona Public Library, Laura Ingalls Wilder Room, California, 319, 322, 330, 347–48, 358–59

  pony express rider, 129

  postage stamp in Hell, 110

  poultry, 9–10

  Power, Mary, 284

  Prairie Girl

  characters in, 165, 168, 169, 177

  outline of, 124, 125

  See also Little Town on the Prairie;These Happy Golden Years

  Prock, Bruce, 84–87, 107–8, 114–15, 145, 195

  Prock, Francis, 153, 154

  Prock, Mrs. Bruce, 140–41, 179, 205

  Prock, Paul, 154

  Quiner, Caroline. See Ingalls, Caroline Quiner “Ma”

  Quiner, Charlotte Tucker, 34–35

  Quiner, Eliza (aunt), 34

  Quiner, Henry (uncle), 147, 158, 167, 175–77, 181–82

  Quiner, Tom (uncle), 34, 158, 168, 177, 183

  railroad

  labor disputes, 152, 153

  land available for homesteading, 124

  Manly working for, 130

  notebook with company store prices, 115–17, 118

  Raymond, Ida Louise

  and On the Banks of Plum Creek, 98–99, 99–100

  on Detroit Book Fair, 133–34

  and Farmer Boy, 65–66, 73–74

  First Four Years proposal, 137

  on lateness of Silver Lake manuscript, 187

  and Little House on the Prairie, 75–76, 79–80

  and Neihardt book reviews, 79

  Nordstrom as assistant, 99

  Redmond, Miss, 257–58

  Review of Books, National Economic Council (Lane, ed.), 310

  Richardson, Mrs. H. R., 303

  robins, 204

  Rock House at Rocky Ridge, 26, 59, 83–84, 139

  Rocky Mountains, 11, 41–43

  Rocky Ridge Farm, Mansfield, Missouri

  about, 246–47, 269–70

  cedar trees stolen, 149–50

  fire in garage, loss of power, 93–94

  and flooding in the area, 253

  gardening, 26, 64, 113–14

  Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum, xvii–xviii, 377–78

  parties at, 55

  pictures of, for Horn book, 249–50

  purchase of, 7

  Rock House built by Rose, 26, 59, 83–84, 139

  Rose as head of household for tax purposes, 111–12

  Rose’s literary friends visiting, 63–64

  sleeping porch, 201–2

  surprise party for Masonic chapter members, 17–18

  tulip tree, 204

  as unique example in Ozarks, 9–10

  water pumps for, 197–98

  Rose. See Lane, Rose Wilder (daughter)

  Row, Peterson Publishers, 145, 213

  royalty rates

  On the Banks of Plum Creek, 97–98

  Farmer Boy, 67, 73, 97, 229–30

  Little Town on the Prairie, 229–30

  By the Shores of Silver Lake, 203–4, 209

  for These Happy Golden Years, 239–40

  Ruby, Thomas L., 21

  Ruralist, 9, 16–17, 23, 26–27, 33

  San Francisco, California

  arriving in, 1925, 45, 50–51

  Berkeley, 16

  descriptions of, 14, 15, 51–52

  Panama-Pacific International Exposition, xv, 10–11, 12–13, 16–17

  San Francisco Bulletin children’s page, 132

  Sato, Yoshihiko, 336, 340, 346

  Saturday Evening Post, 169. See also Free Land (Lane)

  Schaefer, Mrs., 299

  school house, 141

  school in Burr Oak, Iowa, 287


  Seal, Mr. and Mrs. Silas, 186–87, 332

  Serton, Daphne, 330–32

  Sewell, Helen, 66, 80

  Sherwood, Aubrey

  50th Anniversary of De Smet’s founding, 55–57

  copy of These Happy Golden Years, 242–43

  inquiry about Let the Hurricane Roar, 71–72

  invitation to Old Settlers Day, 338

  on Lake Kampeska, 237–38, 242

  Laura and Manly missing Old Settlers Day, 223, 232

  Laura on By the Shores of Silver Lake errors, 210–11

  and Little House books, 232–33

  looking for Pa’s old ledger, 335

  visit postponed, 131

  vouching for truth of Little House books, 237–38

  and Wilder Library, Mansfield, Missouri, 338, 339, 340–41

  Shoemaker, Floyd S., 68

  Short, Dewey, 112

  Silver Lake, South Dakota, 56, 117, 148. See also By the Shores of Silver Lake

  “Sing of South Dakota” (Kirchmeier), 369

  Smith, Dorothy, 311–12, 328

  Smith, Frances, 311–12

  Smith, Irene, 244–47

  Sorenson, Alvilda Myre, 81–82, 100–101, 235–36, 250–51

  Sorenson, Nancy Lee, 250–51

  sourdough bread recipe, 240

  South Dakota, 60–62. See also De Smet, South Dakota

  South Dakota State Historical Society

  violin played by Charles Ingalls at, 259–60, 261–62, 288, 289–90, 365

  wrong inscription on violin, 326–27

  Spock, Jasper, 207–8, 238–39

  Spring Book Festival Award from the New York Herald Tribune, 248

  Springfield, Missouri, 143–44, 192–93, 196, 344

  St. Nicholas (magazine), 74

  Stanton, Ed, 30

  Stanton, Meroe Andrews, 30–31

  stealing Christmas trees business, 149–50

  Sterr, Mrs., 282–83

  stoicism of settlers, 164–68

  Story Behind Modern Books, The (Montgomery), 295–96

  Stratte, Helen, 135–36, 141

  Summers, Mr. and Mrs. Park, 159

  survey of childhood reading experiences, 297–98

  Swanzey, Carrie Ingalls

  childhood, 63, 245, 296

  death of, xvii, 279–81

  as last remaining sister, 236

  Laura’s newsy letter to, 273

  Laura’s visit to, 62

  request for Rose’s castoff clothing, 207

  Rocky Ridge visit, 266–67

  on These Happy Golden Years, 248

  tariffs on livestock, 21

  television rights, 371–72, 379

  Tharpe, Dorothy Nace, 262

  Thayer, Eliza Jane Wilder (sister-in-law), 7, 78, 110, 121–22

  Thayer, Wilder (nephew), 187, 299

  These Happy Golden Years

  contract for, 239–40

  New York Herald Tribune Spring Book Festival Award, 248

  outline of, 233–34

  release date and paper shortage, 238–39, 244

  reminiscence of Carrie Ingalls Swanzey, 248

  Sherwood’s copy of, 242–43

  See also Prairie Girl

  Thomas, Lowell, 200

  threshing, 157, 171

  Tighe, Eileen, 224

  tire theft by Turner boys, 83–87

  tourism at the little houses, 282–83

  trilliums in Connecticut, 229

  Tros of Samonthrace (Mundy), 110

  Truman, Harry S., 112

  Turner, Al, 82–87, 108, 138, 149, 159

  Turner, John

  about, 82–87

  in Columbia, 194

  in Europe, 149

  grades in school, 128

  Laura on, 138

  at New Mexico Military Institute, 113

  tonsillectomy, 184

  Tyler, Harmon, 369–70

  Ulveling, Ralph, 306–7, 308–10, 347

  U.S. Post Office, 19–20

  Utah, 41, 43, 47, 48

  vanity cakes, 34, 257–58

  Victrola, 18

  Vietnam, Rose in, 378

  violin/fiddle of Charles Ingalls

  at Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum, 377–78

  at South Dakota State Historical Society, 259–60, 261–62, 288, 289–90, 365

  wrong inscription on violin, 326–27

  Wakefield, Reba, 300

  Walker, Barbara, xvi

  Walnut Grove, Minnesota, 120, 169, 287, 302, 362–63. See also On the Banks of Plum Creek

  Walsh, Mrs., 77–78

  Warren, Mary Phraner, 240

  Watson, Miss, 297–98

  Watters, Ralph, 362–63, 371

  weather in Mansfield, Missouri

  cyclones, 271, 273

  fall, 99, 185, 226, 280, 305

  and mail delivery, 19–20

  spring, 273, 317, 337, 342, 350, 360

  summer, 33, 253, 341, 342, 366

  winter, 139, 144, 150, 163, 184, 187–88, 191, 192, 294, 317

  Webber, Clara J., 273–74, 319–21, 322–24, 330, 336–37, 347–48, 358–59

  Weldon, Mrs., 334

  Wenzel, Miss, 316

  West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915, xv, 11

  wheat shortage, 164–65

  Wilder, Almanzo “Manly,” 59

  about, 246, 256

  and blizzard in Plum Creek, 165

  caring for family farm in Malone, 118–19, 281

  contribution to Free Land, 128–31

  death of, 312–13, 314–15

  earning money as a teenager, 126, 127–28

  filing on homesteads in Yankton, 121–24, 129–30

  hauling hay for De Smet during a blizzard, 165–66

  horse dies on way to Yankton, 122, 124, 127, 129

  letters from Laura, xv

  letters to Rose, 163, 184–87

  physical challenges

  head and ears, 172, 197

  trip from New York to Spring Valley, 118–19

  Wilder, Bessie, 9. See also Wilder, Laura Ingalls

  Wilder, Dorothy (cousin), 277–78, 279

  Wilder, Eliza Jane (sister-in-law), 7, 78, 110, 121–22, 246, 299

  Wilder, George (uncle), 158, 175, 183–83

  Wilder, Hiram (uncle), 108, 158, 181

  Wilder, Laura Ingalls

  about, xiii–xiv, xxiii–xxvii, 255, 264–65

  birth and childhood, 3–4, 56–58

  birthdays, 55, 283–85, 329, 347–48, 360–61, 374

  books by, xiii

  childhood of, 146–47

  and cities, 53

  and colored people, 28–29

  death of, xvii, 374–75

  Detroit Book Fair speech, 105–6, 133–34, 231

  driving trip to South Dakota with Manly, 199, 203, 205–6, 207

  embarking on writing career, xiv–xvi, 59–60

  favorite Bible quote, 342

  gathering letters of, xv–xvi, xvii

  as homemaker, 189–91, 201–2

  Horn Book Magazine profile, 244–47, 249–50, 253–54, 258, 283

  as journalist, 9, 35

  life without Manly, 314–15

  and Ludlow Amendment, 178, 179, 197

  missing or destroyed letters, xvi–xvii, xviii

  philosophy for living, 284, 301, 351

  photographs of, 3,25,59,256,314

  on scattering of family possessions, xvi

  as teacher in a prairie school, 173–74, 344–45

  timidity with strangers, 288–89

  on traveling, 45–46

  travels of, 8

  writing process, 224–25

  See also Wilder-Lane letters; entries beginning with “Laura Ingalls Wilder”

  Wilder, Laura Ingalls, health challenges

  diabetes, 374

  eyes, 121, 128, 331, 370–71

  flu, 159, 199

  nerves and heart, 327, 362, 363

  rheu
matism, 198, 294, 303, 304, 370

  wrenched hand, 198

  Wilder, Laura Ingalls, trip to California with Rose and Helen, 35–53

  Boylston’s driving, 35, 40, 44

  Colorado, 38–41, 41–42, 47–48

  deserts, 11, 42–43, 46–47

  and Isabelle the Buick, 35–36, 39, 42

  Kansas, 36–38

  Los Angeles, 52–53

  Nevada, 44

  Rocky Mountains, 41–43

  San Francisco, 45, 50–52

  Utah, 41, 43, 47, 48

  Wilder, Perley Day, 277, 279

  Wilder, Rose, 7–8. See also Lane, Rose Wilder

  Wilder, Royal (brother-in-law)

  about, 299

  caring for family farm in Malone, 118–19, 281

  death of, 276

  filing on homesteads in Yankton, 121–24

  hauling hay for De Smet during a blizzard, 165–66

  trip from New York to Spring Valley, 118–19

  Wilder family, overview, 33–35, 268–70

  Wilder-Lane letters

  for On the Banks of Plum Creek, 87–97

  Christmas, 138, 140–41

  example of, 105

  on The Hard Winter, 161–62, 164–68

  in Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, xv–xvi

  hog descriptions from Laura via telegram, 143

  Laura as homemaker, 189–91, 201–2

  Laura on her Ma’s book, 107

  Laura on Turner boys and Murrays, 83–87

  Laura thanking Rose for her support, 188–89

  Laura’s contributions to Free Land, 118–21, 121–24, 125–28, 157, 171

  on Little House in the Big Woods, 63

  on Prairie Girl, 165, 168, 169, 177

  to Rose in Paris, 27–29

  Rose’s destruction of, xviii

  on By the Shores of Silver Lake, 146–49, 151–54, 155–56, 158, 160–61, 173–77, 180–83

  Williams, Garth, 291, 325–26, 348–49, 350, 355–56, 365–66

  technique for Little House books, 325

  Wisconsin, 255. See also Little House on the Prairie

  Wisconsin School for the Blind and Braille edition of Little House on the Prairie, 97, 99

  Wise, Doris, 293–94

  Woman’s Day (magazine), 224, 378

  wood for fires (cordwood), 127–28

  wood stove vs. furnace, 185–86, 195

  Woodworth, Rev., 57

  Works Progress Administration (WPA), 97

  World War I and postwar in the United States, 26–27

  World War II

  Laura on, 263, 266

  paper shortage, 220, 238, 244

  photographer gone to, 258

  Yankton, South Dakota, 5–6, 121–24, 129–30

  Yosemite National Park, California, 49

  Young, Ira, 18–19

  PHOTO SECTION

  The Ingalls family in De Smet, circa 1894. Seated: Caroline (Ma), Charles (Pa), and Mary. Standing: Carrie, Laura, and Grace. (Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association, Mansfield [LIWHA])

 

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