' Just as gripping as the original novels As pacy & vivid as one of Wilder's own narratives this surprising biography is immensely revealing both about Wilder & about America's founding myths' Sunday Times' Little House devotees will appreciate the extraordinary care & energy Fraser devotes to uncovering the details of a life that has been expertly veiled by myth' New York Times Book Review Millions of readers of the ' Little House' books believe they know Laura Ingalls Wilder
- the pioneer girl who survived blizzards & near-starvation on the Great Plains as her family chased their American dream But the true story of her life has never been fully told Drawing on unpublished manuscripts letters diaries & public records Caroline Fraser masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder's biography uncovering the grown-up story behind the best-loved childhood epic of pioneer life Set against nearly a century of unimaginable change from the Homestead Act & the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl & the Great Depression Wilder's life was full of drama & adversity Settling on the frontier amid l&-rush speculation her family endured Biblical tribulations of locusts & drought poverty & want before she left at the age of eighteen to marry Almanzo This is where the books end but there is so much more to tell; deep in debt after a series of personal tragedies Laura & Almanzo uprooted themselves once again crisscrossing the country taking menial jobs to support the family In middle age she began writing a farm advice column prodded by her journalist daughter Rose & at the age of sixty fearing the loss of almost everything in the Depression she turned to children's books recasting her extraordinarily difficult childhood as a triumphal vision of homesteading
- achieving fame & fortune in the process Laura Ingalls Wilder's life is one of the most astonishing rags-to-riches stories in American letters Offering fresh insight & new discoveries Prairie Fires reveals the complex woman who defined the American pioneer character & whose artful blend of fact & fiction grips us to this day

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Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls
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