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Pioneer Girl : : the Annotated Autobiography

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957. Book - 2014 921 Wilder, Laura, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Wilder, Laura Ingalls 2 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.3 out of 5

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"A publication of the Pioneer Girl Project"--Title page.
"Follows the Ingalls family's journey through Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, back to Minnesota, and on to Dakota Territory, [examining] sixteen years of travels, unforgettable experiences, and the everyday people who became immortal through Wilder's fiction. Using additional manuscripts, letters, photographs, newspapers, and other sources, ... Wilder biographer Pamela Smith Hill adds ... context and leads readers through Wilder's growth as a writer"--Amazon.com.

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Disappointing submitted by sara on June 19, 2015, 4:45pm I love the Little House Books, but this book disappointed me. It was so thoroughly annotated that it was difficult to read. Interesting, but not for kids.

Interesting submitted by karenkay on June 20, 2015, 10:18pm It was most interesting to discover that the Laura Ingalls Wilder books I read when growing up contained a lot of fiction!

Heavy submitted by monkk on July 16, 2015, 1:36pm This book never made it home with me. It's physically HUGE! No way I could have gotten it in my bag and then on the bus. Bring your car and park close if you want to read this one!

Not what I'd expected submitted by Zekicmom on June 19, 2016, 1:24pm I had been really excited for this book, especially after revisiting the Little House series with my daughter, but I almost had to force myself to finish reading it. It was hard to follow and didn't really answer a lot of the questions I had about her stories as an adult.

Detailed! submitted by n hart on July 26, 2018, 8:18am If you want to know more about the true happenings of the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, this is the book for you. Yes, it is huge and yes , it is detailed! I read a bit at a time and find it very interesting. Sprinkled with old photos.

This book changed my view of people from pioneer times submitted by valeriemates on July 28, 2018, 3:46pm I loved this book. The "Little House" books are fictionalized, while this book is Wilder's actual memory of what really happened during her unusual childhood growing up as a pioneer in the American midwest. There are oodles of interesting details that didn't make it into her children's books. Like, for example, did you know that another family lived with the Ingalls family during the Long Winter? The visiting family was a bunch of horribly selfish freeloaders whose selfishness became a running joke in the Ingalls family afterward. Wilder left them out of her books because she wanted her books to be a story of her own family's rugged perseverance, alone, and having this other family there would have detracted from the story.

The authors take a very scholarly approach to Wilder's memoirs. They look up every detail that could possibly be checked. Every time Wilder mentions a person, the authors look for the historical record of that person and give you a biography. They explain all sorts of details that would otherwise have made no sense. I was deeply impressed by their thoroughness. Their discomfort with Wilder's daughter's freewheeling changing of facts when she grew up to be an author shines through their writing.

I think the thing that sticks with me most, though, is reading about how one year the Ingalls family was deciding which house to live in over the coming winter, and Pa Ingalls said that the house that they were considering wouldn't be warm enough at zero (degrees outside). Somehow hearing Pa Ingalls choose between houses in much the same way that modern people would make the decision made the people from pioneer times seem much more real to me. They were not simplistic children -- this book brought home to me that they were real people too, very much like us today.

Great submitted by TLW1998 on June 22, 2022, 11:45am I love Laura Ingallis Wilder.

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PUBLISHED
Pierre : South Dakota Historical Society Press, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: lxix, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780984504176
0984504176

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Hill, Pamela Smith,

SUBJECTS
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, -- 1867-1957.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women pioneers -- Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life.