Prairie Fires
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
A Note on Quotations
Map
Introduction
On the Frontier
PART I: THE PIONEER
1. Maiden Rock
2. Indian Summers
3. Crying Hard Times
4. God Hates a Coward
5. Don’t Leave the Farm, Boys
PART II: THE EXILE
6. A World Made
7. As a Farm Woman Thinks
8. The Absent Ones
9. Pioneer Girl
PART III: THE DREAM
10. A Ruined Country
11. Dusty Old Dust
12. We Are All Here
13. Sunshine and Shadow
14. There Is Gold in the Farm
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Photos
Acknowledgments
Also by Caroline Fraser
About the Author
Copyright
PRAIRIE FIRES. Copyright © 2017 by Caroline Fraser. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
www.henryholt.com
Cover design by Karen Horton
Cover photograph of Laura Ingalls Wilder, oil over photograph, 1864 © Granger, NYC
Cover artwork of Prairie Fires of the Great West. Print published by Currier & Ives, New York 1871. Locomotive with cowcatcher and headlamp hauls passenger train across prairie while buffalo stampede in face of fire. Lithograph. / Universal History Archive/UIG / Bridgeman Images
Parts of this book originally appeared, in somewhat different form, in essays in The New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder, ed. Nancy Tystad Koupal (Pierre: South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2017).
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Fraser, Caroline, author.
Title: Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder / Caroline Fraser.
Description: First edition. | New York : Metropolitan Books, 2017. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017028870 | ISBN 9781627792769 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867–1957. | Authors, American—20th century—Biography. | Women pioneers—United States—Biography. | Frontier and pioneer life—United States.
Classification: LCC PS3545.I342 Z6455 2017 | DDC 813/.52—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017028870
e-ISBN 9781627792776
First Edition: November 2017
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