Pepin, Wisconsin. See also Big Woods
Perolli, Rrok
Perry, Ernest
Perry school
Peshtigo fire (1871)
Petticoat Junction (TV show)
Phan, Nguyen Tho Hong
Phelps, Murtie
Philadelphia Record
Pike, Zebulon
Pillsbury, John Sargent
Pine Ridge reservation
Pingree, Daniel
“Pioneer Girl.” See Little House in the Big Woods
“Pioneer Mother, The” (Grafly statue)
Pittsburgh Courier
Plains Indians Wars
Pleasant Prairie Cemetery (South Troy)
Plum Creek. See also Walnut Grove
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith
Polar and Tropical Worlds, The (Hartwig)
Ponce de Leon, Juan
Populists
Porter, Katherine Anne
Potawatomi Indians
Powell, John Wesley
Power, James B.
Power, T.P.
prairie (Great Plains)
Baum on
beauty of
boom of 1920s
Cather on
Catlin on
Charles’s first view of
current condition of
Dakota Indians on
De Smet’s travels in
droughts and
Dust Bowl and
ecology of, and farming
frontier and
Garland on
homesteaders and
lightning strikes on
Little House TV show and
LIW on
LIW’s road trips through
mental illness and
panic of 1893 and
prairie fires
prairie schooner and
prairie style and
RWL on
Prairie Traveler, The (Marcy)
Preemption Act (1841)
Prescott, W.H.
Price, Sterling “Old Pap”
Prock, Bruce
Progressive Era
Prohibition
Protectors of the Land
“Public Domain, The” (Powell)
Publishers Weekly
Puckett, Riley
Pulitzer, Joseph
Pullman, George
Puritans
Quiner, Caroline Lake (mother). See Ingalls, Caroline Lake Quiner
Quiner, Charley (cousin)
Quiner, Charlotte (grandmother)
Quiner, Eliza (aunt). See, Ingalls, Eliza Quiner
Quiner, Henry (grandfather)
Quiner, Henry (uncle)
Quiner, Joseph (uncle)
Quiner, Louisa (cousin)
Quiner, Martha (aunt). See Carpenter, Martha Quiner
Quiner, Nancy (aunt)
Quiner, Polly Ingalls (aunt)
Quiner, Thomas (uncle)
railroads
Raleigh, Walter
Ramsey, Alexander
Rand, Ayn
“Raven, The” (Poe)
Raymond, Ida Louise
Reader’s Digest
Reagan, Ronald
Red Cross
Red Cross Bulletin
Red River Valley
Redwood Falls Gazette
Reed, Jack
Reed, William
relief
Reminiscences (MacArthur)
Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States (Powell)
Republican Party
Resettlement Administration
Rhymes of “The Unlearned Poet” (Samuel Ingalls)
Riggs, Lynn
“Road Not Taken, The” (Frost)
Rob Roy (Scott)
Rockefeller, John D.
Rock House
Rocky Mountain News
Rocky Ridge
acreage sold
farm loan and
reverse mortgage on
RWL builds house at
shrine made of
Rolvaag, Ole
Romines, Ann
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Theodore
“Rose Lane Says” (RWL)
Ruth, Thomas
Salem witchcraft trials
Sandburg, Carl
Sand Creek massacre
San Francisco
LIW visits
San Francisco Bulletin
San Francisco Call & Post
San Francisco Examiner
Saturday Evening Post
Scott, Sir Walter
Seal, Neta
Seal, Silas
Sears, Richard
Sears, Roebuck
Second Amendment
Seelye, Willard
self-reliance
Selvidge, R.B.
Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention (1848)
Seton, Ernest Thompson
Sewell, Helen
Shakespeare, William
Shakopee, Dakota leader
Shawnee Indians
Shearer, Norma
Sheldon, Ole
Shepherds of the Hills, The (Wright)
Sherwood, Aubrey
Sherwood, Gussie Masters
Shiloh, Battle of
Shipwreck in Europe (Bard)
Short, Dewey Jackson
Short, Kathy
“Shorter Hours for Farm Women” (LIW)
Sibley, Henry Hastings
“Significance of the Frontier in American History, The” (Turner)
“Silk Dress” (RWL)
Silver Lake. See also De Smet, South Dakota
Sinclair, Upton
Singing Season, The (Paterson)
Sioux Indians
Sitting Bull
Slaughter Slough massacre
slavery
“Small Farm Home, The” (LIW)
Smith, Alfred “Al”
Smith, Art
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Joseph
socialism
Social Security
“Soldiers of the Soil” (RWL)
“Son of the Soil, A” (RWL)
Sorosis Club
South Dakota. See also Dakota Territory
South Dakota State Historical Society
Soviet Union
Springfield Leader
Spring Valley, Minnesota
Spring Valley Historical Society
Spring Valley Mercury
Stafford, Jean
Stalin, Joseph
Stalingrad, Battle of
Standard Oil
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Star Farmer
Starr, Dr.
Starr, Fanny
Steadman, Johnny
Steadman, Mary
Steadman, William
Stein, Gertrude
Steinbeck, John
Stephens, Charles A.
Stine & Kendrick
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
stock market
boom of 1920s
crash of 1929
“Story of Rocky Ridge Farm” (LIW)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Stuart Little (White)
Sturges Treaty
suitcase farmers
Sullivan, Mark
Sully, Alfred
Sunset
“Surveyors House, The” (RWL)
Sutherland, Zena
Suzuki, Noriko
Swanzey, Caroline Celestia Ingalls “Carrie” (sister)
Swanzey, David
Swinburne, Algernon C.
Syracuse Weekly Express
Taft, William Howard
Tann, Dr. George
Tarbell, Ida
taxes
Teapot Dome scandal
telegraphers’ strike
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Thayer, Eliza Jane Wilder (Almanzo’s sister)
Thayer, Thomas Jefferson
Tha
yer, Walcott Wilder (nephew)
These Happy Golden Years (LIW)
First Four Years vs.
manuscript donated
Thompson, Dorothy
Thompson, D.P.
Thoreau, Henry David
Timber Culture Act (1873)
Time
“To American Letters” (Davis)
Tramp, The (film)
“Traveling Man” (RWL)
Travels with Zenobia (RWL)
Treasury Department
Trotsky, Leon
Truman, Harry S.
Turner, Al
Turner, Frederick J.
Turner, John
Turner, William
“Turns with a Bookworm” (Paterson)
Twain, Mark
Ugly Duckling, The (Haders)
Ulysses (Joyce)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
“Under the Lion’s Paw” (Garland)
Union Pacific Railroad
University of Missouri
Farmers’ Week
Upper Sioux Agency
Upper Sioux Reservation
U.S. Army
U.S. Congress
U.S. Constitution
U.S. Entomological Commission
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Postal Service
U.S. Supreme Court
Veblen, Thorstein
Vermont
Vicar of Wakefield, The (Goldsmith)
Vietnam War
“Village Blacksmith, The” (Longfellow)
“Vocation of Women, The”
von Mises, Ludwig
Vorse, Mary Heaton
Wallace, Henry
Walnut Grove, Minnesota. See also Plum Creek
Waltons, The (TV show)
“War!” roundtable
Warren, Richard
Washington, D.C., March of 1894
Washington, George
Washita River massacre
Watergate scandal
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Webber, Clara
Weekly Star Farmer
Welles, Orson
West, Rebecca
Western Union
West from Home (LIW)
“What Is This—The Gestapo?” (RWL)
White, E.B.
White Fang (London)
Whitehead family
White Shadows in the South Seas (O’Brien)
“Whom Will You Marry” (LIW)
“Why I Am for the People’s Vote on War” (RWL)
Wiese, Kurt
Wilder, Alice (sister-in-law)
Wilder, Almanzo (husband)
arrives in Dakota
birth of
courtship and early marriage
Dakota homestead and tree claim and
Dakota house burns down
daughter’s friends and
death of
death of father and inheritance
death of infant son and
debt and
De Smet winter of 1880–81 and
De Smet stay of, after Florida
diphtheria and
Eastern Star and
education and
elections and
family background of
family visits and
father buys home for
Florida ordeal and
health problems and
jobs in Mansfield
LIW’s depictions of
LIW’s stories under name of
LIW’s temper and
LIW’s travel letters to
Maiden Rock fable and
“Man of the Place” character and
Missouri move of 1894 and
mother and
New Deal and
old age and
Rock House and
Rocky Ridge and
RWL’s depictions of
RWL’s relationship with
sheep farming and
sister Eliza Jane and
Spring Valley move and
stock market and
trips to De Smet in 1930s
trip to the West in 1938
Williams’s illustrations and
Wilder, Angeline Day (mother-in-law)
Wilder, Eliza Jane (Almanzo’s sister). See Thayer, Eliza Jane Wilder
Wilder, James (father-in-law)
Wilder, Laura (Almanzo’s sister). See Howard, Laura
Wilder, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls. See also Lane, Rose Wilder; Little House series; and specific articles; books; family members; and home sites
Almanzo as “Man of the Place” of
Almanzo’s health problems and
ambition of
appearance of
birth and death of son
birthdays of
birth of
birth of brother Freddy and
birth of daughter Rose (RWL) and
charity and
childhood in Burr Oak
childhood in Kansas and
childhood in Pepin and Big Woods
childhood in Plum Creek
childhood in Silver Lake
childhood in Walnut Grove and
childhood poverty and labor of
childhood wagon trip to Missouri and Kansas
copyrights and
courts and marries Almanzo Wilder
death of
death of Almanzo and
death of brother Freddy and
death of father Charles and
death of mother Caroline and
death of sister Carrie and
death of sister Grace and
death of sister Mary and
De Smet and, adolescence
De Smet and, departure for Ozarks
De Smet and, early marriage
De Smet and, final parting for Ozarks
De Smet and, house burned down De Smet and, leaves for Spring Valley
De Smet and, sheep farming with cousin Peter
De Smet and, stay after Florida
De Smet and, visits of 1930s
education of
elections of 1924 and
elections of 1925, and run for office
facts vs. fiction and
family background of
fan mail and
Farm Loan Act and
father Charles and
father’s fiddling and songs and
finances and
finances and, royalties and
first publication of, in De Smet News
frontier thesis and
frugality of
Great Depression and
health problems of
heroism and stoicism of
home sites of, today
honors and
housework and
Indians and
learns to drive
legacy of
legend of, vs. true life of
letters to RWL
letters to RWL, of gratitude
letters to RWL, to be read on death
letter to Martha Carpenter for family stories
Little House authorship question and
Little House TV show and
love of books and
love of prairie and
Mansfield community and
Mansfield jobs and boarders
Masons and
mother Caroline and
moves to Florida with Almanzo
moves to Missouri, and land money loss
New Deal and
old age and
Panic of 1873 and
Panic of 1893 and
personality of
personality of, and injustice
personality of, and temper
political views of
prairie fire and
profile of, in Ruralist
riding and horses and
Rocky Ridge and
RWL and
RWL advises on writing and publishing
RWL’s birthday party in absentia
RWL’s
childhood and adolescence and
RWL’s conservatism and
RWL’s depression and
RWL’s editing of Little House books and
RWL’s fictional portrait of
RWL’s financial problems and
RWL’s “Free Land” and
RWL’s Hurricane
RWL’s letters from Europe
RWL’s marriage to Lane and
RWL’s Old Home Town and
RWL’s story of Ozarks
RWL’s tensions with
RWL’s travels in Europe and
sexuality and
sister Mary and
songs and singing and
speech at Detroit book fair
success of
taxes and
teaching and
themes of
travels to Danbury to visit RWL
travels to Florida
travels to Pepin with RWL
travels to San Francisco to visit RWL
travels West in 1938
travels West with RWL
Williams visits
Woman’s Land Congress address
women’s clubs and
writes farm articles
writes Farmer Boy
writes “First Three Years”
writes ghost story set in Silver Lake
writes Golden Years
writes Little House in the Big Woods (“Pioneer Girl”)
writes Little House on the Prairie
writes Little Town
writes Long Winter
writes On the Way Home
writes Pioneer Girl
writes Plum Creek
writes Silver Lake
writes travel diaries
writing career begun, aided by RWL
writing on father
writing on mother Caroline
writing on women’s work
writing process and
writing published under Almanzo’s name
Wilder, Perley Day (brother-in-law)
Wilder, Rose (daughter). See Lane, Rose Wilder
Wilder, Royal, younger (brother-in-law)
Wilder Life, The (McClure)
Wilkin, Florence
Wilkin school
Williams, Florence
Williams, Garth
Williams, William Carlos
Willis, Sara (Fanny Fern)
Wilson, Woodrow
Winesburg, Ohio (Anderson)
Winnebago Indians
Wizard of Oz, The (Baum)
“Womanliness of Queen Victoria, The” (poem)
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Woman’s Day
Woman’s Day Book of American Needlework
Woman’s Land Congress
Woman’s Missouri Development Association
women, role of
women’s suffrage
Women’s Trade Union League
Wood Lake, Battle of
Woodworth, Ben
Woolf, Virginia
Woolworth, Frank
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
World Peaceways
World’s Fairs
1884, New Orleans
1893, Chicago
1915, San Francisco
1939, New York
World War I
World War II
Worster, Donald
Wounded Knee massacre
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wright, Harold Bell
Wright County Library
“Yarbwoman” (RWL)
yellow journalism
Little Crow, in native dress and holding a feather staff, 1858
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