I have just rediscovered Little House on the Prairie...

[Fillyjonk]

Thats it really

But it is REALLY good

ds won't let me stop reading

Had forgotten about these books

No, it was more, there were also things like there was another family living with them during the Long Winter, and so on. Much of the rugged-individualism is an import.

no she did, didn't she? live in the big woods? twice, in fact?

i thought she was born there, moved to kansas when she was about 2, then moved back to wisconsin. the prairie book is set in kansas when laura is 7ish, hence fictionalisation

pa ingalls died in south dakota. that is a LOT of miles to have racked up

oh yes mi, rose wilder lane basically ghost-wote them as a pro-libertarian tract, iirc...

remember Nelly Olsen! stuck up little minx she was. Nice hair though!

And they were rabidly anti-Roosevelt.

Yes Fillyjonk, I was remembering it wrongly.

so much went over my 9 yo head there...

constance am only relying on wiki here

As a child I was puzzled by their lavatorial arrangements. It was never mentioned.

God, I loved these books when I was a child. I so wanted to make a patchwork quilt

ME TOO constance!

there are those long journeys whrte they aren't aLLpowed to get off the wagon

but also-middle of prairie-no shade or bushes...

or leaves.......

I found all the detail of their lives facinating. the colour of the material they had for their new dresses, the Godley's Ladies books that Ma used to use to make her dresses from, making maple suger

oh yes mb and thw words like calico and creek

i still don't really have a handle on what they actually are

but there was no knitting iirc. or not much.

and dd has just started reading The Borrowers, and I loved those as well

in The Long Winter they knit lace

iirc

Yes, I want to know what calico is. And lawn.

I spent hours sitting on a blanket box in my bedroom pretending that it was Almanzo's buggy seat

PW I was so BillyNomates (well, few mates), when I was a kid I started a gang called the Terrific Two!

I re read the Little Housae books a couple of years ago, and they are just as good when you are an adult!!

And I read soem of the ones that were ghost written, think by her daughter?

I used to dream of living in a cabin.

There's one bit where she looks out the window and sees a wolf almost as tall as her - scared me!!
And when the whole family ahve soem illness, and she has t crawl across the floor to get drink for them.

I also had the Hots for Gilbert.

Mind you, I fell in love with Ged from the Wizard of Earthsea too!

I've just bought me dd the whole series, I loved them as a child. I did a bit of digging around recently and have found that Charles Inglalls direct line died out with the death of Rose Wilder Lane, or at least it did as far as I can tell. I hope someone can prove me wrong though, because that would be so sad if it's true.
Also have bought all the Anne of Greeen Gables books.