In the end, the hunt was fruitless and I went to the secondhand bookstore and bought These Happy Golden Years, which I did not yet own, and proceeded to read it through. Due to a series of events (I married a guy we live together we had a kid) followed by unavoidable consequences (my kidlit/YA bookshelf was co-opted by baby paraphernalia) and personality quirks (the guy doesn’t like “too many” bookshelves…whatever that means), I really had to hunt for them.
Pioneer Girl inspired me to hunt down and re-read the Little House on the Prairie series. Tay Pay Prior), and reveals grim truths hitherto known (Cap Garland’s tragic death the short life of baby Freddie Ingalls) and unknown (mostly having to do with how other people died, also tragically, and usually younger than I had hoped).īut this is not a review of Pioneer Girl. It talks about the real people in the Ingalls family circle, gives the backstory of characters we otherwise only brush by (ex. The other day, I was randomly gifted with Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, which purports to be the original manuscript for the Little House on the Prairie series, painstakingly typed up from notebooks written in Laura’s very own hand, and then annotated/edited with loads of historical information by Pamela Smith Hill.įor someone who is a long-time Little House fan and also a bit of a nerd (ahem: me), the book is a trove of long-sought information.
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