Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Pioneer Girl's World View: Selected Newspaper Columns

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Pioneer girl Laura Ingalls Wilder is best known for the ‘Little House’ series on prairie life in late 19th century America. But she wrote about much more than farming and farm life. This is a selected compilation of her opinion columns for a Missouri newspaper, written between 1911 and 1922. She writes on a wide range of subjects, including love, war, women’s rights, suffragists, self-reliance, immigration and a shrinking international community. These unique pieces show a woman fully engaged with the emerging modern world. Indeed, she displays a deep understanding of politics in a global village in which the United States was the driving force.

69 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 24, 2014

About the author

Ingalls wrote a series of historical fiction books for children based on her childhood growing up in a pioneer family. She also wrote a regular newspaper column and kept a diary as an adult moving from South Dakota to Missouri, the latter of which has been published as a book.

Reviews

[Cheri Yecke · Rating 4 out of 5]

Laura was an accomplished writer long before she wrote the Little House books. Her articles for the Missouri Ruralist attest to this. This book needs to be on the bookshelves of all Laura fans.

[Vikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Little House

This book is a book of short essay type writings. I was expecting to read about the family but it was still filled with education as to how things were done in the past.

[Amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Did not finish. I got bored.