Big Snow When I tell people about Berta and Elmer Hader, I ask if they know the Haders’s Caldecott Medal winning book The Big Snow. Sadly many people haven’t read this delightful book. I then ask if they remember the…
Author: Sarah Uthoff
The Haders’ Little House
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Republished: Henry Ford’s Own Story by Rose Wilder Lane | Beyond Little House
Henry Ford's Own Story Most of Rose’s books came out before the magic year where copyrighted books currently pass into public domain. Several publishing companies have taken to reprinting these books. They don’t have to pay anything for the text,…
Posted in Uncategorized, Writings and Works Tagged with: Diverging Roads, Henry Ford, Henry Ford's Own Story, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, The Making of Herbert Hoover
Republished: Henry Ford’s Own Story by Rose Wilder Lane
Henry Ford's Own Story Most of Rose’s books came out before the magic year where copyrighted books currently pass into public domain. Several publishing companies have taken to reprinting these books. They don’t have to pay anything for the text,…
Update on “Caroline Years” Author Maria D. Wilkes
When HarperCollins decided to create a series of spin-off books featuring various extended family members of Laura Ingalls Wilder, they made each author assume a pseudonym that began Wil- so that they would appear besides Laura on bookshop shelves. Maria…
Get Out and Walk
Lots of people making a Laura trip — what we tend to call a trip to Laura’s homesite towns — for the first time, especially those who haven’t researched much beforehand, might not know what to expect. But the more…
Sloo and Slough
When I was in De Smet this summer, we were talking about the Big Slough and as always a quote from Emily of Deep Valley popped into my head. Other people in the conference planning group said they had the…
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Pa’s Beard
Pa’s beard has always been a huge bone of contention between TV show and book fans. Landon’s lack of a beard is almost always mentioned in early critiques of the show by book fans and I still hear mentioned on…
Little Great Auk
Great Auk Near the beginning of The Long Winter the Ingalls family discover a strange marine bird. It’s nearly frozen and they nurse it back to life, but nothing they have to feed it seems to go down. They said…
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A New Voice for the Blog
I’m a new voice appearing here on Beyond Little House. I was supposed to be posting all along, but an illness this spring and its after effects have kept me from posting before now. I hope I am back to…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove, Research, Sarah Uthoff, Wilder Letters