Prairie Fires

by Caroline Fraser

  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