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    A Little House Sampler: A Collection of Early Stories and Reminiscences

    by Laura Ingalls Wilder, William T. Anderson, Rose Wilder Lane, William Anderson (Editor)


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    • ISBN-13: 9780060972400
    • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Publication date: 05/28/1995
    • Series: Little House Series
    • Edition description: Reprint
    • Pages: 256
    • Sales rank: 409,306
    • Product dimensions: 5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.57(d)
    • Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

    Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) was born in a log cabin in the Wisconsin woods. With her family, she pioneered throughout America’s heartland during the 1870s and 1880s, finally settling in Dakota Territory. She married Almanzo Wilder in 1885; their only daughter, Rose, was born the following year. The Wilders moved to Rocky Ridge Farm at Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, where they established a permanent home. After years of farming, Laura wrote the first of her beloved Little House books in 1932. The nine Little House books are international classics. Her writings live on into the twenty-first century as America’s quintessential pioneer story.

    Brief Biography

    Date of Birth:
    February 7, 1867
    Date of Death:
    February 10, 1957
    Place of Birth:
    Pepin, Wisconsin
    Place of Death:
    Mansfield, Missouri
    Website:
    http://www.littlehousebooks.com

    Table of Contents

    List of Illustrations
    vii
    Preface ix
    Prologue 1(6)
    Let's Visit Mrs. Wilder
    7(4)
    Rose Wilder Lane, by Herself
    11(4)
    A Bouquet of Wild Flowers
    15(4)
    How Laura Got Even
    19(5)
    Burr Oak, a Lovely Place
    24(5)
    Thanksgiving Time
    29(4)
    According to Experts
    33(3)
    Home for Christmas
    36(4)
    Innocence
    40(15)
    Memories of Grandma's House
    55(4)
    Grandpa's Fiddle
    59(28)
    From Missouri
    87(1)
    The Ozark Years
    88(8)
    Laura's Land Congress Speech
    96(3)
    Favors the Small Farm Home
    99(5)
    The Story of Rocky Ridge Farm
    104(4)
    So We Moved the Spring
    108(3)
    It Depends on How You Look at It
    111(4)
    Faces at the Window
    115(11)
    A Place in the Country
    126(10)
    My Ozark Kitchen
    136(7)
    The Farm Dining Room
    143(5)
    An Actual Noon Dinner in the Ozarks
    148(2)
    Autumn
    150(11)
    Thirty-Mile Neighbors
    161(11)
    The Sunflower
    172(2)
    My Work
    174(7)
    Object, Matrimony
    181(19)
    Dakota Territory in the 1870s and around 1880
    200(15)
    Laura's Book Fair Speech
    215(9)
    The Land of Used-to-Be
    224(7)
    The Dakota Prairies
    231(4)
    Epilogue 235
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    For everyone who loves the Little House books—a reissue of a charming collection of early stories and reminiscences by Laura Ingalls Wilder, along with essays and writings from her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, who was an award-winning writer.

    This charming collection of early stories contains many never before published newspaper pieces, stories and essays by Laura Ingalls and Rose Wilder. Inspiring the popular series, these works are a vivid and personal testament to American life and history as seen by two remarkable pioneers.

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