I have to admit, I feel a bit like Laura as she is writing her composition on “Ambition” not quite sure what angle to take on my chapter, nor whether or not I’m doing it “correctly”…. that said let’s delve…
Category: The First Four Years
Protecting their Land: The Ingallses, the Wilders, and the Married Women’s Property Acts | Beyond Little House
Guest Blog Author: Caroline Fraser A few years ago when I was doing research in De Smet for my forthcoming biography, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, I was lucky enough to find in the Loftus Store…
The First Four Years; Chapter 3: Section 10 | Beyond Little House
Guest post by Sue Poremba Around the same time I began reading the Little House books, I began reading biographies of famous Americans – mostly presidents and first ladies. Presidential history now fascinates me as much as the life of…
Read-along Update | Beyond Little House
We’re down to the last five sections in the The First Four Years read-along. If you want to get caught up, just click on the link in the sidebar there → on the right of the page. As a matter…
The First Four Years; Chapter 2: Section 8 | Beyond Little House
Guest post by Melissa Litke The First Four Years, this is everyone’s favorite Little House book, right? Ha! When I was in third grade and received the yellow paperback set of Little House books for Christmas, I sat right down…
The First Four Years; Chapter 2: Section 7 | Beyond Little House
Guest post by Naomi December 5th, we are told, is a bright and sunny day. Just the sort of day one might spot a Rose through the snow. But Laura doesn’t feel like playing outside in the snow. She would…
The First Four Years; Chapter 2: Section 6 | Beyond Little House
I believe I may just have ended up with the section with the least going on, but I gave it my best shot! It was a beautiful day, that twenty-fifth of August, 1886, when Manly and Laura moved to the…
The First Four Years; Chapter 1: Section 5 | Beyond Little House
Guest post by Tatiana The draw of Laura to me is the strong connection to nature and the flow of life – and as an aspiring writer, what a wonderful storyteller was Laura is. Here in part 5, from the…
The First Four Years; Chapter 1: Section 4 | Beyond Little House
By Sandra Hume and Erin Blakemore Title: The Long Winter Oh Wait The First Four Years Sandra: Geese. Flying south. In Vs. This seems more like Little House writing and not The First Four Years, which we all know is…