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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (2017)

door Caroline Fraser

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The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book series Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls-the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true story of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser-the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series-masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder's biography, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books and uncovering the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life. Set against nearly a century of epochal change, from the Homestead Act and the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, Wilder's dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. Offering fresh insight and new discoveries about Wilder's life and times, Prairie Fires is the definitive book about Wilder and her world. Author bio: Caroline Fraser is the editor of the Library of America edition of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, and the author of Rewilding the World and God's Perfect Child. Her writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, and the London Review of Books, among other publications. She lives in New Mexico.

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Complex story that prompted a lot of good discussion in book club. ( )
  bookem | Mar 27, 2024 |
I initially heard of this book through [a: Ana Mardoll|5757381|Ana Mardoll|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1519954093p2/5757381.jpg]'s liveread on Twitter (you can find it on her blog here) and was intrigued, so when I saw it as a "Lucky" read at my local library (meaning- cannot renew or put these copies on hold so it's 'lucky' that you can pick it up, usually hot new reads) I went for it.

Fraser's biography is one of the most thorough ones I've read- the last 25% of the book is end notes, mostly citations though there's the occasional added context- and it not only biographies Laura Ingalls Wilder but also her only child, Rose Wilder Lane.

And boy howdy, RWL is a pretty terrible person. Not just because she's a founding mother of Libertarianism, but also because she consistently plagiarizes, makes things up while calling it "truth" (because unlike facts, you can feel truth apparently?), and makes poor financial decisions while doubling down on how right she is. Some of Rose's biographers (see "The Ghost in the Little House") think RWL actually wrote the books, but in reality Rose acted as a secret editor of her mother's work before it was sent to the publishers, which is why as she got more political over time she inserted more jingoism into the later books.

Fraser's book also adds context to the actual events of Laura's childhood experiences. Though the books say the lands settlers claimed were devoid of people, there were very recently (forcibly) vacated by the Osage and the Dakota tribes, among other people. Pa Ingalls is his daughter's hero, yet he never successfully farmed any of his homestead attempts and later joined a populist party in response to the economic panics of the late 1800s. It's a layered thing (like pie) where propaganda by the railroads lured citizens out to attempt farming arid land caused much struggle which in turn became an inspirational tale of bootstraps under Wilder's pen.

Highly recommend if you've read the Little House books (I definitely went through a LH phase as a girl, even visiting the De Smet homestead and Plum Creek on a family road trip), or have an interest in the mythologizing of America's not-too-distant past. It definitely will color a reread, though (which I'll probably start). ( )
  Daumari | Dec 28, 2023 |
This was a pretty interesting book! I did like learning some new facts about Laura. A lot if historical insight. ( )
  Sassyjd32 | Dec 22, 2023 |
Like many Gen Xers, I grew up reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s semi-autobiographical “Little House” novels. I enjoyed Fraser’s book, which is not only a biography of Wilder but, perhaps inadvertently, also of her daughter Rose Wilder Lane. Wilder and Lane had a fraught, enmeshed relationship which Fraser contrasted well with Laura’s loving and healthy relationship with her family of origin. Wilder is the hero of Fraser’s book while Lane is the anti-hero. Fraser writes with a definite political slant - her left-leaning interpretation of historical events contrasts sharply with Lane’s Libertarian ideology. Lane comes across as an unlikeable and mentally unstable individual who attempts to control her mother and everyone around her while developing extreme political views. Those views become a preoccupation for Fraser to the detriment of Wilder’s biography. I would have appreciated less a focus on Lane or at least an equal focus on Almanzo Wilder (Laura’s husband and the hero of her later three novels). Still, it is a very well-researched and well-written book. The background information about settlement, Westward expansion, and the genocide of Native Americans puts the Little House books into the broader historical perspective. Fraser does a good job explaining how the US government’s subsidizing of farming non-arable land in the Great Plains states, particularly the Dakotas, contributed to the horrific, climatic disasters of the Dust Bowl era. The book also serves as a reminder that American politics has almost always been polarized. Fraser’s book is worth the read not only for Wilder fans, but for anyone interested in American history and the development of Libertarianism. ( )
  Mortybanks | Dec 21, 2023 |
An excellent revisiting of an iconic life.

An excellent revisiting of an iconic life. Answers many questions about the authorship, truthfulness and legacy of the Little House books. ( )
  megacool24 | Dec 18, 2023 |
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Placing the Ingalls family’s homesteading mishaps in a bigger picture of national enterprise is one of many demonstrations of Fraser’s admirable commitment to presenting her research in a broader historical context. But sometimes this causes the literary gears to grind. ... And yet there is far more to admire than to criticize in Fraser’s determination to provide everything needed for a responsible and thorough history of Wilder’s life and legacy.
 
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The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book series Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls-the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true story of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser-the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series-masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder's biography, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books and uncovering the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life. Set against nearly a century of epochal change, from the Homestead Act and the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, Wilder's dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. Offering fresh insight and new discoveries about Wilder's life and times, Prairie Fires is the definitive book about Wilder and her world. Author bio: Caroline Fraser is the editor of the Library of America edition of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, and the author of Rewilding the World and God's Perfect Child. Her writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, and the London Review of Books, among other publications. She lives in New Mexico.

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