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1 online resource (180 pages) |
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Routledge Historical Americans |
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Routledge historical Americans.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Laura Ingalls Wilder: American Writer on the Prairie; Chapter 1 A Home in the West: The 1860s; Chapter 2 Wandering the West: The 1870s; Chapter 3 Settling the West: The 1880s; Chapter 4 Leaving the West: The 1890s; Chapter 5 Writing the West: 1911 to 1943; Chapter 6 I Am Your Laura: 1943 and Forward; PART II Documents; 1 Missouri Ruralist Interview, 1918; 2 "Pioneer Girl" manuscript, Carl Brandt version, pages 111-15; 3 An Autobiographical Sketch of Rose Wilder Lane; 4 "As a Farm Woman Thinks." |
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5 Letter from San Francisco6 Mountain Grove Sorosis Club Speech, 1936; 7 Travel Diary Excerpt, 1931; 8 Wilson Library Bulletin, Vol. 22, No. 8: April 1948; 9 Letters to Laura: "I Am Always Dreaming About You . . ."; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote stories that have defined the American frontier for generations of readers. As both author and character in her own books, she became one of the most famous figures in American children's literature. Her famous Little House on the Prairie series, based on her childhood in Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, and South Dakota, blended memoir and fiction into a vivid depiction of nineteenth-century settler life that continues to shape many Americans' understanding of the country's past. Poised between fiction and fact, literature and history, Wilder's life is a fascinating wi |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957. Little house books.
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 -- Political and social views
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 fast |
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Little house books (Wilder, Laura Ingalls) fast |
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Autobiographical fiction, American -- History and criticism
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Women pioneers -- United States -- Biography
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Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Authors, American
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Autobiographical fiction, American
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Political and social views
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Women pioneers
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136725661 |
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1136725660 |
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9780203409152 |
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0203409159 |
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0415820197 |
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9780415820196 |
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0415820200 |
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9780415820202 |
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