Epilogue – Definition: a conclusion, comment, postscript, supplement, addendum, postlude, denouement, swan song, peroration. Does it have to be over? I would rather it not. Every time I picked up Prairie Fires I was engaged and interested, much like I…
Category: Rose Wilder Lane
Prairie Fires Readalong – Dusty Old Dust | Beyond Little House
Pick the Dust Bowl chapter, the meteorologist said. I’ll relate to it, she said. Well, I’ll get to talk about the Dust Bowl, but it looks like I’m going to have to talk politics, too. Let’s take a deep breath…
Prairie Fires Readalong – A Ruined Country | Beyond Little House
Guest Blog Post by Kristi Martin — This chapter begins with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s journey to visit her past in the prairies. Returning with her husband to DeSmet, South Dakota was a homecoming to a place transformed by time. The…
Prairie Fires Readalong – Pioneer Girl | Beyond Little House
This week’s blog was written by Karen and Kevin Pearce Kevin: As I did with chapter 6, here are definitions for words that I had to look up due to the imparity between Fraser’s vocabulary and my own. Once again,…
Prairie Fires Readalong – The Absent Ones | Beyond Little House
When looking at the title of this chapter, the beginning pages of this chapter meshed in my brain to make sense, most of the rest of the chapter made me look at the work absent in a different light. In…
Prairie Fires Readalong – As a Farm Woman Thinks | Beyond Little House
A couple months ago, our minister began her sermon by saying that it is common to hear “They had more time in the old days, even referring to the pioneers” My best friend gave me a pointed look to which…
Prairie Fires Readalong – A World Made | Beyond Little House
One thing that has made reading this book both exciting and humbling for me so far is the fact that Fraser’s vocabulary exceeds mine by leaps and bounds. I just finished writing my doctoral dissertation, so I’d hardly consider myself…
View from an Outlier | Beyond Little House
There’s been a breakthrough in Laura Ingalls Wilder research. The grave for Rose Wilder Lane’s and Claire Lane’s infant son has been tracked down–in Utah, of all places, and the information, including the death certificate, is all over the Internet.…