Status Updates From Prairie Fires: The American...

Wonderful accounts of life on the Prairies turns of the last century ~

Waiting on Libby loan. It’s a long book the first 1/4 to 1/2 is what’s already known from her fiction and Pioneer Girl.

DNF

Not surprisingly, Charles Ingalls was one of the Squatters allowed to steal land from The Osage while in Kansas. They left months before the abilities to buy 900 acres for $50 down on a total $330 (he’d already paid $35), yet hard to root for them?? In their defense, the Gub’MINT was saying it was awwww’rite, so technically they weren’t breaking any laws.

Pre-checking this out I realized I could read this without having read any of the other “Little House on the Prairie” books. Fascinating historical background to Laura Ingalls-Wilder’s “sugar-coated” Memoirs.