Yesteryear // Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Pioneer Girl" & "Little House on the Prairie"
What if the coziest story of your childhood was only cozy because someone decided what to leave out?This week Brett is back for a book club chat on Little House on the Prairie and the real manuscript behind it, Pioneer Girl. We get into how Laura Ingalls Wilder's actual life story got rewritten by her daughter Rose into something sellable for Depression-era kids, what got cut along the way (a dead baby brother, a murdered family friend, an entire year of their lives), and the Osage history the books erase almost entirely, land that was never actually free, a removal that happened right past…
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