In October 1952, the mother of a seven-year-old girl wrote to Wilder, care of her publisher, to object to a passage at the beginning of Little House on the Prairie. It read: In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no people. Only Indians lived there.154
