books and
Burr Oak and
census and
Civil War and
Dakota Territory and
Dakota War and
daughter Mary’s blindness and
death of
debt and poverty and
De Smet and
elections of 1887
family background of
fiddling and songs and
health problems of
home sites of, today
homesteading and
Kansas and
Landon’s TV portrayal of
letter to Wilder boys
LIW’s depictions of
LIW’s parting with
LIW’s relationship with
LIW’s visits to
Maiden Rock and
marriage to Caroline Quiner
Missouri trip and
panic of 1893 and
Pepin and
Plum Creek and
populism and
relief and
RWL and
self-reliance and
Walnut Grove and
Ingalls, Docia (aunt). See Forbes, Docia Ingalls
Ingalls, Edith “Dolly Varden” (double cousin)
Ingalls, Edmund (ancestor)
Ingalls, Elizabeth Jane (daughter of Jedediah)
Ingalls, Eliza Quiner (aunt; wife of Peter Ingalls)
Ingalls, Ella (double cousin)
Ingalls, Faith (daughter of Edmund)
Ingalls, George Washington (son of Jedediah)
Ingalls, Grace Pearl (sister). See Dow, Grace Pearl Ingalls
Ingalls, Henry (son of Edmund)
Ingalls, Jedediah Hibbard
Ingalls, Lansford (grandfather)
Ingalls, Laura (grandmother)
Ingalls, Laura Houghtaling (distant relative)
Ingalls, Lavina (daughter of Jedediah)
Ingalls, Margaret Delano (great-grandmother)
Ingalls, Mary (daughter of Edmund)
Ingalls, Mary Amelia (sister)
adult life of
baptism of
birth of
blindness and
childhood of
death of
death of father and
death of mother and
education of
father and
Little House TV show and
LIW’s depictions of
LIW’s parting with
LIW’s rivalry with
Osage Indians and
poems of
RWL and
Ingalls, Mary McGowin “Molly” (Peter Franklin Ingalls’s wife)
Ingalls, Peter (uncle)
Ingalls, Peter Franklin (double cousin)
Ingalls, Polly (aunt). See Quiner, Polly Ingalls
Ingalls, Samuel (great-grandfather)
“Innocence” (RWL)
Interior Department
International PEN Congress
In the Land of the Big Red Apple (MacBride)
Iowa College for the Blind
Iowa Weather and Crop Service
Irving, Washington
Irwin, Inez Haynes
I Saw Hitler (Thompson)
Ishida, Aya
isolationism
Ivanhoe (Scott)
Jackson, Andrew
James, Frank
James, Jesse
Japan
Jefferson, Thomas
Jemison, Mary
“Jitney Romance, A” (RWL)
John Birch Society
Johnson, Adamantine
Johnson, Andrew
Johnson, Hiram
Jones, Iola
Jones, Marvin
Jones, Roscoe
Jones, Sheldon
Jordan, George
Joyce, James
Jud Süss (Feuchtwanger)
Jungle, The (Sinclair)
Junior Literary Guild
Justamere Club
Kansas
Dust Bowl and
Little House on the Prairie and
location of homestead in
Pioneer Girl and
Osage resistance in
prairie fire
Williams visits
Kansas City Post
Kansas City Star
Kansas Democrat
Keaton, Buster
Kennedy, John F.
Keystone XL
Kiewit, Fred
Kilburn, Clarence
Kingsbury Independent
Kirkus, Virginia
Kirkus Reviews
Knights of Labor
Koch, Charles
Koch, David
Kreisler, Fritz
Krivitsky, Walter
Ku Klux Klan
labor movement
Ladies’ Aid Society
Ladies Companion
Ladies’ Home Journal
Lakota Sioux
Landon, Michael
Landschaft system
Lane, Claire Gillette (husband of RWL)
Lane, Rose Wilder (daughter). See also specific works
“adopts” Roger MacBride
“adopts” sons
advises LIW on writing and publishing
advises LIW to work on memoir
agent George Bye and
Almanzo and
ambition of
anti-Semitism and
biography of, Holtz
biography of, MacBride
birth and early childhood of
Bloody Benders and
Cather and
childhood in Dakotas and
childhood in Mansfield and
childhood move to Missouri and
childhood poverty and
conservative politics and
Danbury home bought
death of
death of Almanzo and
death of grandfather Charles and
death of infant brother and
death of LIW and
debt and spending of
depiction of, in Little House TV show
depressions and breakdowns of De Smet never visited by
diary of
early job as telegrapher
early jobs in California
editing talent of
education of
fact vs. fiction and
FDR and
financial aid to parents
friendships broken off by
friendship with Dorothy Thompson
friendship with Helen Boylston
friendship with Isabel Paterson
grandfather Charles and
harsh attitudes toward unfortunate and
house built for parents
house obsession and
Indian massacres and
journalism career of
letters to LIW from Europe
literary characters modeled on
Little House books, authorship question
Little House books, edited and revised by
Little House books, first sale engineered by
Little House books, historical objects
LIW postage stamp and
LIW’s columns and
LIW’s contracts and copyrights
LIW’s Detroit book fair speech and
LIW’s fight with, over Hurricane
LIW’s “First Three Years” manuscript and
LIW’s legacy and
LIW’s letter of gratitude to, in 1939
LIW’s letters to
LIW’s letter to be read on death
LIW’s relationship with, in youth
LIW’s royalties and
LIW’s run for office and
LIW’s tensions with
LIW’s travel notes published as On the Way Home
LIW’s work posthumously published by
LIW visits in Danbury
LIW visits in San Francisco
love of books and reading
malaria and
marriage and divorce to Claire Gillette
Lane
marriage loathed by
moves to New York
moves to San Francisco
Near East Relief Agency and
New Deal and
O’Brien’s White Shadows dispute and
other Laura Ingalls and
parents’ money in lap desk and
returns to Mansfield after European travels
Rocky Ridge and
romance with Garet Garrett
romance with Guy Moyston
sexuality and
stillbirth of son and
stock market and
suicidal tendencies and
taxes and
travels through Great Plains with LIW
travels to Almanzo’s childhood home
travels to Albania
travels to Europe and Asia in 1920s
travels to Louisiana, as teen
travels to Vietnam
voting rights and
Williams’s illustrations and
writes celebrity biographies
writes “Credo”
writes Discovery of Freedom
writes “Diverging Roads”
writes family stories as fiction
writes fiction on Mansfield
writes “Forgotten Man” serial
writes “Free Land” serial
writes “Grandpa’s Fiddle” on journey of 1894
writes He Was a Man
writes Hurricane and
writes “Long Skirts”
writes Old Home Town
writes on childhood fire and suicide attempt
writes on rural farm life
writes Ozark fiction
writes Peaks of Shala
writes pioneer stories
writes sketch of novels to rival LIW’s
writes “Soldiers of the Soil” series
writes unpublished “Missouri” volume
writing and commercialism and
writing as teenager
writing career wanes, in 1930s
WW II and
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
Laura Ingalls Wilder Day Tea
Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum
LauraPalooza conference
Laura’s Living Prairie
Laurel, Stan
Leatherstocking Tales (Cooper)
Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad
Lend-Lease
Lenin, V.I.
Leopard’s Spots, The (Dixon)
Leopold and Loeb trial
Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
Le Soldat du Chêne, Chief
Let the Hurricane Roar (“Courage,” RWL)
Levine, Isaac Don
Levine, Ruth
Lewis, Meriwether
Lewis, Michael
Lewis, Sinclair
libertarianism
“Liberty Amendment”
Liberty Bonds
Liberty magazine
Lichty, Irene V.
Life
“Life of Jack London” (RWL)
Life with Father (Day)
Lincoln, Abraham
Lindbergh, Charles
“Lines … On the Great Hail” (Samuel Ingalls)
Little Bighorn, Battle of
Little Crow, Chief
Little House in the Big Woods (“Pioneer Girl,” LIW)
authorship question and
copyright and
fact vs. fiction and
Farmer Boy vs.
illustrations and
Maiden Rock and
published
success of
title found
written
Little House in the Ozarks (MacBride)
Little House on Rocky Ridge (MacBride)
Little House on the Prairie (“Indian Country,” LIW)
Plum Creek vs.
first two books vs.
Indians and
success of
Little House on the Prairie (TV show)
Little House Sampler, A (LIW)
Little House series. See also individual titles
adaptations and
authorship question and
copyright battle and
events left out
fact vs. fiction and
Farmer Boy’s place in
foreign translations
Indian activists vs.
legacy of
little houses trail and
LIW on themes of
opening of
RWL edits and revises
success of
Tennyson and
themes of
TV series
uniform edition
Williams’s illustrations and
Little Red Hen, The (Hader and Hader)
Little Town on the Prairie, The (“Prairie Girl,” LIW)
manuscript donated
Little Wolf, Chief
Little Women (Alcott)
Locke, Mahlon William
locusts and grasshoppers
London, Charmian
London, Jack
Long, Stephen
Longfellow, Henry W.
Longmans, Green and Co.
“Long Skirts” (RWL)
Long Winter, The (“Hard Winter,” LIW)
Japanese translation
manuscript donated
Lorimer, George Horace
Lorimer, Graeme
Los Angeles Times
“Lotus Eaters, The” (RWL)
Louisiana Purchase
Lower Sioux Reservation
Ludlow, Louis
Ludlow Amendment
MacArthur, Douglas
MacBride, Burt
MacBride, Roger
MacBride, Susan Ford
Maiden Rock
Main Street (Lewis)
Main-Travelled Roads (Garland)
Making of Herbert Hoover, The (RWL)
malaria
Malone, New York
Manifest Destiny
Mann, Horace
Mann, Klaus
Mann, Thomas
Mansfield, Missouri
Mansfield branch library
Mansfield cemetery
Mansfield Mirror
Mansfield National Farm Loan Association
Mansfield school
Mansfield visitor center
Mantel, Hilary
Marquis, Peggy
Marx, Groucho
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Masses, The
Masters, Genevieve
Masters, George
Masters, Gussie
Masters, Little Nan
Masters, Margaret
Masters, Mattie
Masters, Nancy
Masters, Samuel
Masters, William
Masters, Will (son of William)
Masters hotel
Matchlock Gun, The (Edmonds)
Mather, Cotton
Matsunawa, Eiko
Maugham, W. Somerset
Mayflower
McBride, Mary Margaret
McCall’s Magazine
McCarthy, Eugene
McClure, S.S.
McClure, Wendy
McClure’s Magazine
McGovern, George
McKee, Martha
McKee, Mary
measles
Mellon, Andrew
Melville, Herman
Meta, Borë-Rose
Meta, Rexh
Methodists
Minnesota. See also specific locations
Almanzo’s parents leave
Dakota War and
Ingalls move to
land rushes and
locusts and
prairie fires and
precipitation and
statehood and
Minnesota massacre
Minnesota state legislature
Missouri. See also Mansfield; Rocky Ridge
Charles’s land in
Depression and
Dust
Bowl and
LIW and Almanzo move to
property laws and
RWL on
Missouri Agricultural Report
Missouri Home Makers’ Conference
Missouri Ruralist
Missouri Woman’s Home Development Association
Mitford, Jessica
Moore, Anne Carroll
Moore, Mary J.
Moore, Thomas
Morgan, J.P.
Mormons
Mount Rushmore
Moyston, Guy
Mundy, Talbot
Murray, Corinne
Murray, Jack
Mussolini, Benito
“My Albanian Garden” (RWL)
My Ántonia (Cather)
My Autobiography (McClure)
“My Father’s Violin” (Mary Ingalls)
“My Hopes Have Departed Forever” (Foster)
Myrick, Andrew
“My Work” (LIW)
National Academy of Sciences
National American Woman Suffrage Association
National Economic Council
National Farm Loan Associations
National Industries
National Park Service
National Recovery Administration
Nature
Near East Relief Agency
Nebraska
Nelson, Eleck C.
Nelson, Oleana
Neutrality Acts (1930s)
Never Ask the End (Paterson)
Newbery Honor Books
Newbery Medal
New Deal
New Orleans
New Republic
New Ulm
Battle of
New Ulm Pioneer
New Yorker
New York Herald Tribune
New York Ledger
New York Magazine
New York Public Library
New York Times
New York Times Book Review
New York Tribune
New York World
Nineteenth Amendment
Nixon, Richard
Nobody Starves (Brody)
Nordstrom, Ursula
Northern Pacific Railway
Oakley, Annie
O’Brien, Frederick
“Ocean, The” (Caroline Quiner Ingalls)
Ocean (schooner)
Ogden, Walter
Ojibwe Indians
Oklahoma
Oklahoma! (musical)
Older, Cora
Older, Fremont
Old Home Town (RWL)
“Old Maid” (RWL)
Old Settlers’ Day
Oleson, Nellie (character). See also Owens, Nellie
Oliver Twist (Dickens)
Omaha Indians
One Week (silent film)
On the Banks of Plum Creek
chronological gap and
reality vs.
RWL on
“On the Margin of Life” (RWL)
“On the Record” (Thompson)
On the Way Home (LIW)
O Pioneers! (Cather)
Osage Diminished Reserve
Osage Indians
Owen, Ven
Owens, Nellie. See also Oleson, Nellie
Owens, Willie
Ozark serials (RWL)
Paine, Thomas
Palin, Sarah
Palmer, George Q.
Palmer & Co.
Panic of 1837
Panic of 1873
Panic of 1893–94
Paterson, Isabel Mary Bowler
“Paul Revere’s Ride” (Longfellow)
Pawnee Indians
Peaks of Shala, The (RWL)
Pensacola & Atlantic Railroad
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