Prairie Fires

by Caroline Fraser

  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