Erin ’s Reviews > Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder > Status Update

Rose had privately hailed Hitler as "a resurrection of the German people".

Economics starts at home and as an adult Rose had never shown any mastery of money.

In many ways the manuscript for Little House on the Prairie exceeded in raw power and thematic complexity the finished book.

Laura was so cash strapped that she used the backs of letters and her Little House in the Big Woods manuscript to begin her new novel.

In the spring of 1936 Rose would visit her parents 2x. That would be the last time Almanzo Wilder would see his daughter.

Throughout the manuscript Almanzo is portrayed with affection but exasperation as a bit of a spendthrift unconcerned about going deeply into debt and careless with his health

Rose was hungry for security and status.

Throughout her life Rose Wilder Kane would never blanch at exaggerating or telling half truths and outright lies to gain an advantage.

Farmers, Ingalls Wilder noted in 1911 seemed to prefer their backwards ways consistently voting against improvements to roads or schools lest they raise taxes.

Overall less than half of homesteaders failed. In the first 30 years of the Homestead Act more than a million failed to prove up on their claims and were unable to make a living.