Volume 41, Number 21 · December 22, 1994
The Prairie Queen
By Caroline Fraser
The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane
by William Holtz
University of Missouri Press, 425 pp., $29.95
The First Four Years
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Harper Trophy, 134 pp., $3.95 (paper)
A Little House Sampler
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Rose Wilder Lane, edited by William T. Anderson
Harper Collins, 243 pp., $12.00 (paper)
BOOKS IN THE 'LITTLE HOUSE' SERIES BY LAURA INGALLS WILDER
West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco 1915
edited by Roger Lea MacBride
Harper and Row, 124 pp., (out of print)
Little House in the Big Woods
Harper Trophy, 238 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Farmer Boy
Harper Trophy, 372 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Little House on the Prairie
Harper Trophy, 334 pp., $3.95 (paper)
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Harper Trophy, 339 pp., $3.95 (paper)
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Harper Trophy, 290 pp., $3.95 (paper)
The Long Winter
Harper Trophy, 334 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Little Town on the Prairie
Harper Trophy, 307 pp., $3.95 (paper)
These Happy Golden Years
Harper Trophy, 290 pp., $3.95 (paper)
'No one who has not pioneered can understand the fascination and the terror of it.' Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote these words. They appear on a historical plaque by the side of South Dakota State Highway 25, a mile and a half north of the town of De Smet. The plaque marks the site where Wilder and her husband, Almanzo, lived in a claim shanty in the late 1880s while they tried and failed to grow wheat.
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