Little Author in the Big Woods Quotes

“In 1924, Ma died, and Lara felt her loss keenly. She noted the profound influence her early life had had on her: "The example set by my mother and father has been something I have tried to follow, with failures here and there, with rebellion at times, but always coming back to it as the compass needle to the star.”
― Yona Zeldis McDonough, Little Author in the Big Woods: A Biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Yes, life on the prairie was hard. But they had all pulled together to make the best of it.”
― Yona Zeldis McDonough, Little Author in the Big Woods: A Biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder

“No one, who has not pioneered, can understand the fascination of it . . . storms, blizzards, grasshoppers, burning hot winds, and fires . . . yet it seemed that we wanted nothing so much as wanted to keep going west!”
― Yona Zeldis McDonough, Little Author in the Big Woods: A Biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder