The Homesteader Issues
Content synopses for past and current issues of The Homesteader Newsletter.
Issue 8, Winter 2005-2006
In this issue: Uncle Tom Quiner’s journey into the Black Hills is revisited using non-Little House® sources, and the resulting article contains a newly discovered photo of Uncle Tom. musicologist Dale Cockrell tells how “Happy Land,” essentially a soundtrack to the Little House® books, came to be. a Laura fan and essayist ponders her life
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Issue 7, Summer 2005
In this issue: a Laura fan who is also a doctor offers her best medical guess as to what ailment was truly responsible for Mary’s degeneration into blindness. a full-color pictorial of the daylong annual Prairie Days Festival in Independence, Kansas. See the celebration in full at the setting of Little House on the Prairie.
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Issue 6, Winter 2004-2005
In this issue: a factual look at the “Hard Winter” of 1880-1881, as part of our continuing series on Laura’s life in a historical context photographs and description of a pre-restoration visit to the Wilder home in Malone a feature on Laura’s visit to San Francisco (told about in West from Home) a heartwarming story
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Issue 5, Summer 2004
In this issue: a historical look at the grasshopper plagues of the 1870s Midwest that Laura recounted in On the Banks of Plum Creek an interview with renowned LIW biographer William T. Anderson an LIW children’s entertainer shares her experiences performing with a real pig’s bladder the history of an annual Gingerbread Sociable in LIW’s
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Issue 4, Winter 2003-2004
In this issue: a feature, including photographs, on the Almanzo Wilder Farm in Burke, New York (setting for Farmer Boy) an in-depth look at the South Dakota tornadoes in the 1880s that lend credence to the storms in These Happy Golden Years a synopsis of Ingalls Homestead’s first “Teachers’ Day” a review of Old Town
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Issue 3, Summer 2003
In this issue: an article all about Little House Site Tours, escorted trips to the homesites a feature story on June Silliman, “Dear Laura” on the Web site for the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum a review of the compendium of letters between Rose Wilder Lane and Dorothy Thompson, 25 Years of Friendship the latest seasonal
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Issue 2, Winter 2002-2003
In this issue: an interview with the young man who plays Pa’s fiddle at events in Mansfield, Missouri groundbreaking research on Mary Power a look at the latest grant-funded changes and updates to the Independence, Kansas homesite the story of how one Laura fan tracked down a log building in Colorado that was dedicated to
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Issue 1, Summer 2002
In this issue: Advice on how to avoid eBay scams on LIW merchandise A news story recounting a conference on current, brand-new LIW research from a conference held in DeSmet in 2001 A feature on Walnut Grove An extensive look at Ingalls Homestead, Laura’s newest “homesite” in DeSmet, and an interview with its owners, the
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