Facts About Laura Ingalls Wilder
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- Laura Ingalls Wilder was a homesteader and author, famous for her Little House on the Prairie book series. Like Juana Maria, who inspired the book, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Wilder actually existed. Laura Ingalls Wilder was a real woman who wrote books inspired by events that took place in her life. For example, she really grew up on rural farms in multiple states; her sister Mary actually went blind; and her husband, Almanzo, was not a work of fiction. Pictures of the real Laura Ingalls Wilder and family exist, and there is a museum dedicated to the family in Mansfield, Missouri, where visitors can at least see part of the real little house on the prairie.
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As a teen living in an Oakland ghetto in the mid 1970s, buying and reading the book series was an excellent healthy and wholesome fantasy escape. It helped me make my real escape, soon as I turned 18.
I grew up in the South Bronx in the 80s and 90s. Watching Little House on the Prairie, helped take me away from all of the fighting, crime, and other stuff growing up poor in NYC. I always wanted to live out in a farm. Great show.
I worked at her Homestead in De Smet, SD all through college. Best job ever. Laura and her family were all amazing people with great values and accomplishments. It is the best story of the hardship and happiness involved with pioneer living.
Didn't they sneak away in the night to avoid debts at least once?
@@duckens2001 They faced alot of financial hardships, but pretty much everyone in that part of the country did. What many people don't realize is that locust blight wasn't just a one time occurance, it happened for 3-4 years in a row. So when they jumped ship and went from Minnesota to Iowa, they were pretty low on cash, as government wellfare for everyone that lost their livelihoods to locusts was only 5 dollars and a tiny bit of food supplies. They took a 30 dollar loss on their first property in MN and when they went to Iowa, their business dealings with the person who was splitting ownership with for the hotel kind of went south. Not to mention the intense amounts of doctor bills from Mary's illness. There were several times where they had to just kind of cut their losses and move on. Laura and Almanzo ended up doing the same thing early in their marriage after they failed to prove up on their land in De Smet. What's important to note is that eventually Charles did recoup his income from assisting on other farms, doing random construction work, and eventually working for the railroad company, and proving up on their land in De Smet really demonstrated that their years there were sort of the pinnacle of financial success for them as a family.
@@duckens2001 andI think you are looking good
@@duckens2001 it was common in a world without credit cards, welfare, or even a stable financial system.
@@duckens2001They also squatted on land they didn't own.
I’m 70 years of age, and when my children would come home from school and watch Little House. I read all of Laura’s books and would let my mind wander back in time and dream of living in that way and that time period. I was fascinated by her stories. The kid across the street would come over and refer to me as ma Ingalls. I still think that would be a wonderful time to live, but lots of hardwork and hardships. Thanks for posting. Shame kids now aren’t interested in what it took to get them where they are nowadays. 🦋🦋🦋🌸🌸🌸
Her maiden name was Ingalls. Not Wilder. Come on man.
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I was just getting ready to make the same comment.
@@gaylamender7541 same it's very disrespectful he couldn't get that right
Buying a house with cash from your side-hustle... ahh, yes... those were the days...
My boy just bought his second house with his side hustle money. His side hustle was growing a metric fuck ton of Marijuana.
@@holstorrsceadus1990 is he hiring? haha
Boss babes will convince you that you can 😂
They are coming again! Yay for recession!!
Holstorr Sceadus I bet....unless....??? I wonder if all lives matter though?
I remember when I was a kid my mom bought me one of those book subscriptions from a school book fair and it not only sent you all of the Little House Books, but also sent extra activities like how to make your own doll out of a corn husk or something like that. I thought it was the best thing ever.
I used to read her books then I was younger,you can totally get lost in them.
I really should try to read one or a few then. Thanks, man.
I still have my books from when I was a kid. And own most the tv series. I was actually named after Melissa Gilbert and Melissa Sue Anderson.
I still have my boxed set of paperback books from when I was younger. It probably started my love of reading.
@@workingguy6666 Start with Little House I the Big Woods if you can.
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I STILL watch the reruns of this show to this day! I loved how every episode had a loving and learning feel to it and that times were simplistic even though they were hard. It’s just a good clean show and I have been watching it for 39 years 😂. Thanks for this video!
i8urcookie 33 the times werent simplistic or simple. But the source material for the show is.
Simplistic as in you had basics to do everyday for survival. No cell phones. No gaming. No social media back when families did everything together. It’s better than the garbage I see on today
Little house in the big woods was one of my favorites as a kid, wonderfully descriptive and engaging.
Yes mine too. I loved how cozy that book made me feel. I’ve read it over and ever especially when I need safety and security. It’s very comforting for some reason.
I’m a guy, so mine was “farmer boy”.
@@Ilovevintage77 Oh yes, me too! It was so cute.
@@aixpert291 I think 'Farmer Boy' has some of the best description of food in all literature!
@@angelamaryquitecontrary4609 I agree! His descriptions of breakfast were amazing!
Nellie wasn't real but based on three particularly nasty girls Laura knew.
misspinkpunkykat - actually there was a Nellie in real life but she only lived around Laura for a year or two then her family moved back East. There’s a biography book on Laura and Rose’s life that goes into a lot of detail. It kinda burst my bubble on Laura.
Nellie was real, but her story was embellished and her real name was Nellie Owens
Caroline Norton And she was nice, from what I’ve read.
@@Delieivey what was the name of the book?
Maeglin Libertarians on the Prairie. The book kinda "busted" my view. I've read lots of books on the Ingalls/Wilder clan...this had some ring of Truth in it. Although I believe all biographies have bias from the writer
Favorite book series author of my childhood ❤
I'm not American, thus I learned a lot about USA's history from the books.
So did Americans ...😆
Lol same!
My absolute favorite book series as a kid. I've also read the series several times as an adult.
Wilder was Laura's married name. This presentation keeps incorrectly referring to her family name as Wilder but it was Ingalls.
Yeah he refers to Laura as a by-product.
Roger Hammerstein Yep. Exactly.
Thank you for pointing that out. It’s really irritating that WH keeps repeating the same mistake throughout the presentation.
totally drove me crazy while watching.
I know. They referred to her little brother who died as Charles Wilder.
I remember this well. I had the blessing of having my great-grandmother alive and in my life well into adulthood. She’d watch Little House on TV and I’d watch it with her. She told me all kinds of stories and pointed out things that were similar in her own life to the show. The clothing, riding in wagons, etc. I remember my great-great-grandma too though she died when I was little. She lived in a log cabin and still wore her bonnets every day sitting by the magnolias reading her bible. I played “Prairie” and dressed up in her bonnets and aprons after she passed. Which is funny now cause we never lived on the prairie. We lived in the south in an old mill hill neighborhood.
OMG! my dad love "little house on the prairie" he kept telling to watch the show and I only watch them when I go back to my hometown; to my parents house... my dad being not american, muslim and coming from poor family hearing my dad being excited to share one of his favorite show is so cute. he kept telling me that he and his friend had to watch the show while watching it from the outside of a rich kids house... this show also seems to give me good memories of my dad.
@Leroy Brown we don't live in America. It was the 60's so having a TV was not essential, he did mentioned that only one or two house had tv in his village while he was growing up.
Her brother's last name would have been Ingalls, not Wilder unless Weird History knows something the rest of us don't.
I thought the same thing. The narrator had a Duh Moment.
I think folks are combining two baby boys' deaths. Laura's Mother gave birth to one son, he died as an infant. He was named Charles, after his Dad. Charles Ingalls. Laura herself gave birth to Rose, and then a couple of years later, to a son, who died just days after being born. He was buried as "A son of A.J. Wilder," meaning, they hadn't even had time to give him a name.
You are right. He is an Ingalls. My best friend is related to Laura. My friends grandmother is an Ingalls.
@@happydays2300 When Laura wrote about this in a later book, you can see how down she was :( Sorry I can't remember which one.
@@harveyabel1354 The final book, titled "The First Four Years".
My mother’s family used to live in a shack in a field behind the Wilder home; they had to cross the Wilder property to get to the road that went into town. Sometimes Laura would give them money and ask them to bring things back. Among those things were Big Chief tablets, which she wrote the Little House books on.
That’s so cool!
Thats amazing and yes soooooooooo cool
That's a great memory
According to magazine articles that her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, Laura did not write the complete books but only write down outlines and Rose filled in the rest of each book. I collect vintage women’s magazines and Rose Wilder Lane wrote many stories for these magazines about other subjects.
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Small fact was wrong: Wilder was her married name; her brother's last name would have been Ingalls. (Also, the Wilders are distant relatives of mine 😋)
Really?! That's so cool!
Omg so awesome. I’ve been a fan of Little House since I was a child. 😆
I'm also a distant relative of the Ingalls'. The spelling of our name got changed somewhere along the way
My uncle got to meet her.
That’s so very cool!!
You know you're obsessed with LIW when none of the facts in the story are new to you.......
Pointing that out for a friend.
I've been watching Alison Arngrim (Nellie Olson) on her Facebook page reading the Little House on the Prairie books. Also Dean Butler (Almanzo) has been reading some. Alison is so funny.
It's annoying how he keeps on referring to the Wilders instead of the Ingalls.
Lol! Spot on. My daughter is obsessed so we know allllll the things
I actually took a class on her life - we studied Pioneer Girl. As I watched this video, I not only knew all of it, I literally corrected the slight errors in my mind...and defended against the backhanded insults of her family 😂
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How about remaking the video with the necessary corrections. This is a fun way to learn history but it needs to get the facts right.
Wesley Smith also he included a ton of political slant that was unnecessary.
Yes! “No record of Charles Wilder” yeah because his last name was Ingalls. He was her brother not her son
Agree, I have seen unnecessary political comments on other videos too. How about just the facts, with some sarcasm for fun.
WITHOUT, all of his off to the side, SNIDE, SARCASTIC, SUBJECTIVE, NOT NEEDED... COMMENTS. 🤬
@@wes326 Such as insinuating that homeschooled kids are ignorant. This guy paints Laura as being a puppet of her daughter Rose, which is wrong. Laura was actually a better writer of prose than Rose was... I mean, whose novels do we read today, Laura's or Rose's? Exactly.
My mom was a huge fan of the Books and the show... and that’s why my name is Laura..
why is your last name koops?
my name is also laura-
Same!! Lauras unite!
Hello To All The Laura's
When I have a daughter her name will be Laura as well!!!
I'm actually related to her. My grandpa has a diary of hers from when she was a teen just chilling in his attic.
What an interesting read those must be!
Wow ohh my how lucky and cool that is!!! I admire her greatly. That’s really awesome
As a kid I didn't understand so I was uninterested and quite frankly bored. As an adult I've garnered much appreciation for it. I mean shit someone in my bloodline contributed to American literature in a huge way! If you met the rest of my family you'd see why that became so important to me as an adult.
Are you sure you're not thinking of Anne Frank?
Fun fact - we are all related to her.
I went on a full tour of every single homestead (not in order) my family and I first went to Rocky Ridge, then to Kansas, the place they lived in Iowa that Laura never wrote about, then to Walnut Grove, then Desmet (Little Town on the Prarie, Silver Lakes) and ended with Pepin.
Have you been to the little plot of land in Chariton county, south of Rothville, Missouri? The Ingalls family lived there for only a short time. Being the way Missourians tend to be, the road they lived along is now named Ingalls Road and there is a little memorial where the homestead was. If you go to Google maps you can see it on the satellite view. The road is also listed as 216 and east (or to the right) of Depot Avenue you will see a small fenced area with a short drive to it just past a farmstead. If you get to F Hwy, you've gone too far.
Lauraine Garten No we didn’t go, we live on the East Coast
I have always wanted to do that! That’s awesome!
Cool!!
Did you go to Laura and almonzo’s house in Spring Valley Minnesota?
Literally just wanna see the weird ball they made out of the pigs bladder. That really stuck with me when I was like 12
Me too! Even remember the illustration of Mary and Laura playing with it!
Lol I remember that
That and the molasses candy they made with the snow. I seen the recipe and made it with my daughter a few years. Lol
Balls were commonly made from bladders
Lol same! I just started reading the series again, and I'm intrigued again!
I'm so early, Nellie Oleson hasn't had time to dislike this video yet.
@Chosen One me too!
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God I wanted to kick her ass when i was little! Lol she played that role so well i almost hated her in real life! 🤣🤣🤣
Chosen One me three Karens before it was a thing
I have never heard of her
Hi, I love Weird History. Quick fact check: Laura's brother, Charles, wouldn't have been named Charles Wilder, but Charles Ingalls. "Wilder" is Almanzo's last name. Thanks!
Yeah, they make that mistake at least two times in this video. But we will forgive them. :)
But his name wasn't even Charles. His name was Frederick, Freddy.
@@dortebas223 nope it was Charles Frederick ingalls Jr Frederick was his middle name Freddy was a nickname they called him
Caught this immediately. I’m not sure, as a lifelong fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder, that I’m willing to just let this very obvious misappropriation pass. He was HER brother, not Almanzo’s
@@dortebas223check any major sources. His name was Charles Frederick Ingalls
Being a child of the '70s and watched "Little House on the Prairie" religiously, I found this very interesting. Thank you.
My 6 yr old wont miss a day she thought it was now . I had to tell her that show is older than me im 35 lol
I live right by Laura Ingalls old homestead
Is it here in Wisconsin?
I’m assuming near DeSmet? I’ve been there twice and stayed on the homestead one night in one of the wagons.
You're making Rose out to be the perfect daughter, but their relationship was often fraught and Rose suffered a lot of mental health issues and had a lot of money problems from some impulsive spending and went home regularly for support from her parents, even as an adult. You also missed that they lived in Florida for awhile. Her family's life was super interesting and a lot sadder than it's made out to be in the Little House books.
Damn
You can't just be "fraught". You must be "fraught with" something.
Yes it’s true their relationship as parents and child was often strained and it certainly was not as one sided as was depicted here. Rose was indeed impulsive and at times the root cause of money problems as often as she was the resolution to them. Her coming to her parents’ “rescue” was often her fixing a problem she created so not so much a rescue as recompense. And Ingalls family as a whole lived a very rough life and it was very sad and at times filled with despair. Overall Laura came out a winner. While I do believe Rose helped her mother with editing I don’t believe for one minute that she was the actual author of the series. Folks seem to overlook the fact that Laura was a published newspaper columnist and had been a teacher for 3 years before writing her first book. She was hardly illiterate.
Katherine Adamchick A relatively brief residency in Florida by the family was mentioned in this upload.
He hinted that he will do an episode on Rose.
I've been to Laura's house in Mansfield Missouri. I wanted to go back this year, but the covid had other plans.
"There was no official cause of death listed for Charles Wilder." Well of course not, Charles Wilder didn't exist. Charles was her brother not her son, his name would've been Charles Ingalls. Almanzo didn't have a brother Charles, only Royal.
Edit: My point was he keeps calling them the Wilders when they are CLEARLY not the Wilders because they're talking about Laura's family NOT Almanzo's.
Interestingly, at the museum in Mississippi, Almanzo's family portrait showed 6 children (I can't remember how many were boys/girls). I believe Laura and Rose wrote only about 4 because it made the story easier.
He had a brother named Percy.
Yes. The TV show made up another of Almanzo's brothers, named Perley Day Wilder.
Corrie Anderson the tv show didn’t make him up. Almanzo’s youngest brother was Perley Day Wilder. But he wasn’t born until after the time Farmer Boy would have taken place.
Lacey Anne his name was Perley.
I grew up with the show. It taught how to empathize , be considerate, and do my best to live with integrity. It also taught me how to cry as a man accordingly and with a level of correctness. I found the series to be a huge part of developing insight into life's enriching and most endearing moments shared. Thank you for this doc...
Years ago, I went home to Montana/ My folks told me to meet Mr. Ingalls next door a cousin to Laura. I was teaching and Mr. Englls, who was 83 at the time, had taught in Wisconsin somewhere in the 30's. He said one time he had a student that showed up very late. When asked what the problem was he said there'd been a skunk getting it to there their chickens. During the night they heard a ruckus in the coup so his dad got up and took the shotgun out there accompanied by the dog. He was wearing a night shirt slit up the side. When he opened the door of the coop the dog put his cold wet nose on his leg. His dad mowed down a whole row of chickens. He'd been home all morning canning chickens.
LOL
I can just see that happening.
All worked up
Adrenaline surging
The slightest odd thing happens and BEWM goes the ten gauge!!!
A similar thing happened here in the early fifties with guys dressed as aliens. Guy was on the roof and he grabbed the cop by the hair and he unloaded and shot everything EXCEPT the "alien"
Got the house, the squad car, the outdoor outhouse.
Truly put me in mind of Barney Fife!!! LOL
I would be interested to learn of Agatha Christie and Helen Keller .
I've been to her house
There's actual live footage of Helen Keller on youtube. Couldn't believe it.
I second that.for Agatha Christie and Helen Keller
Yes like where did agatha go and dissapear .????
I would be careful what you wish for in this case. Both of those women were tragic figures, and not in the fun or empowering way. They had their victories, and rightfully earned, but I've always looked at them (Christie in particular) as the sort of mythic heroes that you don't want to learn too much about.
Her books and amazing descriptive details have gotten me through more awful times and sadness that you will ever know. I have found such courage and strength in her stories and her hard life and even if parts of it were omitted puffed up or tweaked a bit the point is she made an impact and I’ll be ever grateful. What’s cool is even though I knew quite a bit of this information you guys taught me some facts I hadn’t known. Thank you!!!
I used to be a probation officer. Years and years ago when I first started I remember going to a house for a home visit with a co-worker. I remember he (offender) was watching Little House in the prairie. I said something about that and he said they always watched it in jail. I found it kind of ironic hardened criminals sitting around in jail watching Little House on the Prairie
Merri Cat wow that’s really cool maybe that’s something that kept them comforted and grounded and a tiny bit more wholesome!!
Well said.
@@merricat3025 in jail the sheriff controls the channel
These were the first chapter books I ever read. I love them to this day. The history and detail behind them is so interesting. The very first one gives general information about how butchering a pig worked, cheese making, and so many things modern people wouldn’t necessarily know first hand.
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I was the same age as Laura during the television series. It was my favorite show. At some point I went from seeing “Pa” as the amazing father you dreamed of having to.....more. 😂 I have visited the house in Missouri. I also visited Almonzo’s childhood home. I lived in (way) upstate NY for a year and only a few miles from his home.
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I know this video was based just on Laura but even tho she was home schooled, her mother went to school and even attended finishing school in Milwaukee. There’s a whole other book series on her life around the time of the Bleeding Kansas. It wasn’t surprising that Laura ended up being well educated.
Awesome job! I loved her books, the show, and mostly hearing about the real Laura Wilder! She lived through ALOT of our history! She was an amazing woman.
I get goosebumps whenever I think about that. When she was born she lived in log cabins and traveled by covered wagons. When she died 90 years later, there was TV, radio, airplanes, satellites in space, and traveled by car!
I only started watching the television show within the last two years. I then downloaded all the books. I have fallen in love with Little House an Laura Ingalls Wilder! Little House will make you cry ! ! !
That little poke at homeschooled children was a bit harsh. Most homeschooled kids are VERY well educated.
I homeschooled both my children, both are college graduates, graduating with honors. They are also very social and can communicate with ages other than their own.
Unfortunately, antivax and breeding cults made homeschooling looked down upon. My sibling homeschooled her kids, and they graduated early. Fellow members of my church homeschool, and are anti vax pro late term disease abortionists. Cant win em all.
It depends on who home schools them. Additionally, their social skills sometimes negate any education they receive since they have a hard time adapting to social settings (i.e. meaning any setting outside of their home school environment). It's a matter of being exposed to diverse background.
@Jeff Wilkins Again, it depends on who is teaching them. Bigotry and all its forms (i.e. racism, ageism, sexism, etc.,) is indoctrination. Enforcing one type of religious belief over others, is indoctrination. Diversity and critical thinking is not always available to those who are home schooled.
It depends on who's teaching them tbh
My mom is a teacher and most of the kids she's taught that start going to regular school after being homeschooled initially have been WAY behind where they should be. Not all parents are cut out to homeschool.
At the Minnesota Historical Society, there is a letter in their archives to the governor from a farmer begging for help with the crop loss. The farmer included a dead locust and letter still has the dead locust in it. I got to see it while taking a history workshop for educators.
Wow, how interesting!
Mel Mel, it is and that thing is big!
@@ItsJustLisa When the pandemic is over I'd like to head down there to see it.
I loved the show, and I read all the books. One of favorites! 🌹
I must say something about homeschooling. It's great! Ask my brother in law. His brother has his master's, 2 sisters both have graduated college and he is almost done with his 1st doctorate.
lilacsandroses51 I homeschooled for 23 years before it was cool. From 1989 until about 2012.
but with homeschooling you interact less with kids and you might have 0 friends because of that (i know i would) and so you might not get out of the house much as a kid and you might not get all that social interaction that you need anddd it also costs money if you don’t want to homeschool them yourself. where i live school is free. another thing is that if you decide to homeschool them, it’d probably be annoying as you guys have to spend so much time together and i think parents & children should have alone time.
@@wolfzmusic9706 Homeschooler here: you're just repeating the stereotypical "homeschoolers don't have a social life" argument. While it is true that we don't pass as many kids in a hallway on a day to day basis, I've yet to see a homeschooled kid that didn't have all the friends they wanted. Neighbors, other homeschoolers, people in their sports teams or churches or other social groups...there are plenty of kids around! Besides, school is supposed to be about learning, anyway. I don't know how your school works, but at the ones I teach in, kids are kinda expected to focus on their work and only really get to talk with each other during recess and lunch. That's what, maybe an hour during the day? It's pretty easy for a homeschooled kid to meet or exceed that and guess what- no worries about bullies or school shootings or anything else like that!
@@wolfzmusic9706 Public school is not free, it's just subsidized by everyone in the community. Per student, homeschooling is a LOT less expensive, although sadly parents do have to pay for their supplies etc on top of paying for other people's kids' education. And it's not like parents and kids are stuck with each other all the time. Homeschooling usually takes a good bit less time than a public school day. Depends on your family, but most parents and kids have all the alone time they want. In my experience, once kids are old enough to do their work independently, most do. Kinda like y'all do with your homework.
Plus, did I mention that many homeschooled students achieve very highly on standardized tests?
@@wolfzmusic9706 I shall step off my soapbox now, lol. It seems that homeschooling is often stimagtized by people that have not experienced it, so I try to advocate whenever I can. Not everyone wants to or can do it, but that doesn't mean it's not as good as public school. By most metrics, it's better.
The first book series I read. My parents bought me a deluxe set of the entire book series for Christmas when I was 9. I couldn't put them down. These books paved the way for my lifelong love of books, especially book series. Loved the show too! I'm 19 days younger than Melissa Gilbert, so I feel a special draw to the show.
I've been watching Alison Arngrim (Nellie Olson) on her Facebook page reading the Little House on the Prairie books. Also Dean Butler (Almanzo) has been reading some. Alison is so funny.
@@julienielsen3746 Ok, I think you've posted this enough!
@@harveyabel1354 - I'm sharing on each person's comment that I thought might be interested, because they wouldn't see it if I didn't share with them individually.
Ignore it.
Love watching anything about Half Pint and her beloved family! Thanks for sharing! ❤️
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Laura is my great, great aunt....my mother is an Ingalls woman, by birth, and she's still a homesteader.
I love tht show , you can learn alot from watching Little house. Respect, family values, hard work , love of God and country.
Her brother's name was Charles Frederick INGALLS, not Wilder. And he went by FREDDIE, not Charles. And the WILDERS didn't homestead on Osage land, the INGALLS did. Also, Laura wasn't "forced" into retirement, the truth is that she didn't like being a teacher and had hoped to marry Almanzo so she could stop teaching and be a housewife (not very feminist). Did someone proof-read the script before filming? Because some of the facts you're relaying aren't true.z
FYI: Karen Grassle's last name is pronounced "GRASS-LEE", not "GRASS-EL"
The series was actually mostly based on On the Banks of Plum Creek (the third book) with the Oelsons etc. The reason it was called Little House on the Prairie (the second book) was the TV movie that preceded it was based on THAT book then the show picked up on where it left off but kept the title. The series did pick up on events that happened in later books (Mary’s blindness, marriage to Almanzo), though they stayed in Walnut Grove for the remainder of the show.
He never said she was a feminist. He said she learned towards a feminist voice when writing for the newspaper. She advocated for a women's right to vote which would be considered feminist for the time. Also,Just because someone is a housewife doesn't mean they can't also consider themselves to be a feminist lol
@See Quinn in 1900 before vaccination the infant mortality rate was 165 in 1000 and 100 years later it 7 in 1000.
@See Quinn no, lots of children die because you think dangling your healing crystals and selling essential oils will save them
@@ButterBallTheOpossum you gotta love facts!👏👏👏
I’d love to see a video on The Waltons (Earl Hamner Jr.)!
Huge fan of the show, plus I live in Schyuler, Va - home of the real Walton farmhouse.
I'm no aficionado of Earl Hamner Jr, but he did a lot of writing for TV. What pops to mind of all things are several stories he wrote for the Twilight Zone. They all had a rural, down home feel to them.
Every time the show came on my Pops would hand me a box of tissue! I enjoyed this show and still do today! 🇺🇸🌻🌷❤️⛰
"I bet you can still close your eyes and hear that theme song..."
Nope. All my brain comes up with is Bonanza. But I'm fine with that.
This is the first book series I read as a kid, good times 🤧
I'm 25 but I watched Little House on the Prairie everyyyyy night when I was a kid & I had a MAJORRRR crush on Pa aka Michael Landon 😍 It still feels nostalgic to me when I watch it , like asmr or something. 😅🥰
My 3rd grade teacher used to read us Little House in the big Woods
My 3rd grade 4th grade teacher and librarian (all the same person) was absolutely obsessed with these books throughout the years we read most if not all of them and watch the movie several times. Will never forget that
I'll tell one fact: ALBERT WASN'T REAL
Neither was Mr Edwards. He's in the books, but did not exist in real life.
Neither was Nellie. The character of Nellie was a conglomeration of several annoying girls Laura interacted with as she grew up.
One of the main I inspirations for Nellie was a Nellie Owens. Another girl was Gennie Masters and I forget the name of the third girl.
@@melmel4712 So if I understand Nelly is more of a concept, like the Karen.
@@alvaricoke41 Yes!
I’m named after Laura Ingalls’ mother, and I do everything I can to research and find out everything I can about the all of the Ingalls’ and their lives. Thanks so much for this video!
Use this video just as an intro, there are *a lot* of inaccuracies. The recent publications Pioneer Girl, edited by Pamela Smith Hill, and Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser are good books. My first bio was Laura by Donald Zochert, but it's much older. You must be proud to be named after Caroline Ingalls, she was a remarkable woman.
I wish someone would come up with another series on historical era family life. So so interesting, and entertaining
This is really Cool. My Family and I watched Little House on the Prairie for many years on TV while i was growing up. Now after losing the last of my elders and having grown up with my parents and grandparents in a 2 family house since I was 3 years old....I can certainly understand writing a book or two or three of our 3 generations growing up in that house on Long island since 1968.
It's not any frontier travelling out to the West Family, but I know alot of my grandparents stories of moving to America in the 1920s and 1930s and what life was like at that time in the old country which was Germany...,and their new country in America...including the long 16 day trip here in 1921 for my opa and 1936 for my grandmother. I also have stories from when my mom and dad grew up in Ridgewood and Howard Beach Queens during the greaser days of the 50's, and my dad enlisted in the army and spent a year in Cambodia from which I have 300 letters written back and forth between them while he was abroad until they got married when he returned....then raising a family In Queens and then our 2 family house eventually during the 60s, 70s and 80s and then after when my brother and i left the nest and my mom, dad and grandparents continued to live there throughout the rest of their lives through the 90s when my opa passed in 1997 and 2000s when my mom passed in 2001...... and then my oma lived 15 more years till 2016 to see her great grandchildren grow up and graduate high school and my dad lived another 4 years growing closer to his grandchildren and us until he was tragically TAKEN by the virus in 2020 as the last of our elders. Now that is the short story...but could easily be 3 books of 3 generations. I believe everyone has a story to tell that future generations will be interested in knowing about!
Her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, was the founder of Libertarianism.
Frick outta here that's crazy
2wingo "Along with two other female writers, Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, Lane is noted as one of the founders of the American libertarian movement." WHOA WHAT. Definitely time for a Weird History video. That's nuts!
Huh the more you know
But I definitely agree with you 💯 there needs to be a video of this
In other words, a moron.
Laura Ingalls Wilder is a national treasure! I love this woman! and I love Michael Landon for commemorating her as well! ♡♡♡ American History is so fascinating... History is just fascinating period! ⚘
I feel like I'm the only person on the planet that has popped a "little house" DVD in my playstation 4. It's just a good show to watch when you're down or sick. Makes you feel humble and warm.
Thank you. Laura Ingalls Wilder was by far my favorite author when I was a girl. I read all of her books. And I didn't know most of this about her until now.
As I grew up near Walnut Grove Minnesota where on the banks of Plum Creek, the locust issue, and the long winter Took place, Laura and her family were an Intercal part of my grade school and junior high education. There’s also a museum in Walnut Grove and in the Cottonwood County historical society Museum in Windham Minnesota are many of the original photographs of her family as well as a history of what happened with them. I was surprised not to hear Walnut Grove mentioned, as as the TV show took place almost exclusively there in Walnut Grove. They have a pageant there every year on the banks of Plum Creek the first three weekends in July is very historical and informative as well as being a good production. It attracts people from all over the world! I think it’s great that Laura wrote about her family and about the travels and experiences she had growing up, as otherwise we probably wouldn’t know anything about homesteading families etc. I do know that many homesteading families moved several times before settling down in one spot including some of my own family members who homesteaded in North Dakota Minnesota and Wisconsin
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Lucy Maud Montgomery with Anne of Green Gables.
Agree!!!!
100% agree!!!
What about the author who wrote Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
Would LOVE to see y'all do a video on Loretta Lynn!!! She is the Queen of country music.
YESSSSS!
Excellent idea.
Her story is sad 😞
Omg one of my favorite book authors ❤
Never thought you'd do a video about her,
I love this channel even more now!
Same. As a boy I loved reading miles of books. 😃🙏
I'd totally love to see a Weird History episode about Rose!
I've read all of her books and have been to the Laura Ingles Wilder museum! I'm so glad you made this video about her!
0:17 "To becoming a retired school teacher at the age of 18"
Imagine retiring at 18 years old, those were the good old days.
That's because she got married.
Homeschooling is a fantastic way to educate your children. The stigmas, stereotypes, and general negativity surrounding it really need to go away.
Tsaghira I homeschooled all 8 of my children over a 23 year period. We have several in the trades and several with degrees. All are brilliant and successful. I would not change a thing about their education.
@@christinerobinson890 Bless your heart.
Well done ma'am.
Have a Blessed Day
I definitely noticed the homeschooling jabs in this. Probably doesn't realize that a good chunk of homeschoolers are into the series. These people are also very unaware of the accademic success of homeschooled children (not to be confused with distance learning)
WOW LOVED ALL THIS HISTORY OF LAURA . I'VE BEEN WATCHING LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE LIKE IN THE 70S AND I AND I STILL WATCH IT .AND IM 57 YRS OLD.🤗🤷♀️
Toured their old homestead & the museum this past fall. I loved it
I love this classic series. I’m used to hearing the struggles of the civil war during this time. But it’s great to hear about life in America during this time.
I was twelve years old and watching every single one of these tv shows in the 70’s and beyond. We even bought the dvd set for our own children. Funnily enough, we also are home schoolers... about to start the senior year of the youngest of 5 children who all grew up reading and watching Little House on the Prairie!
I use to watch the Little House on the Prairie when I was a kid so many years ago & I really enjoyed it .. & once got the cassette tapes from the library to listen to Laura Ingalls Wilder telling the stories as she wanted them to be told in her own way of how it was spoken back then of the way they talked & I really enjoyed listening to them & it was done really well ... I also like to write poems ... & have been writing my poems since I was in the 7th grade .. some times the words just come to me to write them down on paper & others take longer you might say .... you just have to find the wright words to put down that will go with what you are say & trying to put the picture with & some times its just not there & you get a writer's block from time to time ... I know that is life & you just have to wait till it comes to ya for that right moment to come you way of a brain storm of writing what your feeling & how to put the meaning into words everyone will under stand & want to be reading more ... & that is what I have done in my poems over the years have put down into words of how I was feeling at the time in my life of what I was going through kinda like Laura Ingalls Wilder of put what she went into a book & me into poems .... { I'd like to be a writer some day that is my dream to have all my poems out there for everyone to read some day & I also have all these stories in my head that I want to write some day & have them printed out there for everyone to read my books of stories I write ... Ya, I know its only a dream of mine .. But, it don't hurt to dream of becoming a writer one of these days for everyone to enjoy reading my poems & stories I so long to write ....you have to get their attention & get them to keep reading .. & wanting more .... & if you don' t get past the first few pages & want to pick something else to read then it wasn't a good store or a good poem after all ... & all my poems are different & mean something to also from a different part of my life of what I was going through at the time . } I'm not giving up on my dream of becoming a writer .....
LMAO, there is no such thing as a "local pandemic" by definition.
Epidemic.
Sean Furlong, that is why there is no such thing as a local pandemic, it should be called epidemic
Bubba Clemson 5:24 he said GLOBAL pandemic, not local
I live a short drive from the Wilder house in Mansfield, and have toured it and the house Rose had built for them, many times. That house is a beautiful, little Tudor-style, but Laura never cared for it, and moved back to the farmhouse. And there are some dark tales - 'The Ghost in the Little House' is a great resource for these.
Ive watched "Little House on the Prairie" with my family. She was one amazing woman. Cool story!
Always loved this story! I grew up on watching it. We need to bring it back into the homes today with society the way it is today. ❤
You should look into Dorothy Molter. She lived for 50 years alone in the bwca. And eventually became the only person allowed to live there. She is also known for selling root beer.
But wasn't one of her books called The Root Beer lady?
Dumb question...what is the bwca?
@@foxopossum Not dumb: I'm also curious.
@@iloveprivacy8167 BWCA - Boundary Waters Canoe Area. It's in Northern, Minnesota.
I grew up watching this, Laura was only a couple of years older than me at the time and my Dad and I had the same kind of close relationship. I lived vicariously through her lol. Thank you for this video and giving a sort of tribute to the legacy of the Ingalls and Wilders
Our principal in high school told us about the series of little housebon the prier and I'm grateful cuz he exposed me to this amazing story
I loved reading Laura ingalls Wilder's books! I regret I sold them in one of my yard sales and wished I'd kept them. Little House on the Prairie was my favorite tv show. This video was really very interesting
He seemed completely surprised that someone educated at home could manage to pass a test. Lol
lelu dallas multipass It’s called homeschooling now. It was called life lessons then.
lelu dallas multipass I homeschooled all 8 of my children over a 23 year period. They are all brilliant. Several are in the trades and several have college degrees. People do a disservice to homeschooling out of ignorance, which is ironic since they are implying we are ignorant.
@@christinerobinson890 I also educate my 3 at home for the past 7 years. They are amazing people and far surpass the government educated children on pretty much everything. Not to menrion the wonderful family and community relationship we all have
Yes, I was disappointed to hear that statement. We homeschooled our 2 sons, K through twelfth grade. They began college [Chemistry/Physics/Astronomy/Computer Science, etc] at ages 14 and 16 to supplement our homeschooling. The elder has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and the younger has four degrees. His degrees are a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, a B.S. in Math, M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Phd.in Electrical Engineering. They are both fine people who are well adjusted and contribute to society.
So glad I'm not the only one irritated by the home school comment. I have homeschooled my 3 from the beginning, and they are brilliant, and their vocabulary surpasses that of their peers. I just hate that everyone tries to portray homeschoolers as uneducated, cut off from the world, abused kids. When in almost every case that's far from the truth. Sorry for the rant, but with homeschooling always being under attack, it has me a little defensive.
This is awesome cowboy now saddle up and do Lucy Maud Montgomery next
bonnie holland Yes!!! I would love a video about LM Montgomery! Her life was very interesting and sadly bittersweet.
Love Anne of Green Gables series.....
My mom & I would watch this show every week and cry. My dad used to say "why do you watch this if all it does is make you cry"? We just replied that it was so good, we had to watch. I miss those times with my mom.
My life has seemed a tribute to Laura & her temple's struggles to make good their chosen life together as farmers, teachers & storytellers. My students ( homeschooled, deeply involved with all things Laura ) were learning to drive horses at my farm driven n their fascination with her text. They remarked on some things I hardly noticed myself, details that drive my own fascination to this day.
Wish they had included the fact that the real Jack was a "brindle bulldog," i.e., a pitbull.
I was just thinking that. And I always think about their cat black eyed Susan bc now I have a black cat!!
Louie O. BlevinsMusic If it was a girl maybe but our baby boy is named bear!! He has claws like a bear eats like a bear and jumps on you like a bear. The cat in my picture though is our amputee three legged baby girl bunny she hops around like a little bunny I have four cats!!
And they left him behind to die during one of their moves.
@@shelbyscout no according to Pioneer Girl, the annotated autobiography of Laura's, when the Ingalls family was traveling from Kansas back to Wisconsin, and Charles traded his horses with a farmer he crossed paths with, Jack was part of the trade. So the death scene in the Silver Lake book was made up, one of many editing tricks of Rose's.
The only time I heard my grandma cuss as a child was when she told me a story of riding in a taxi with Laura in mansfield mo and said she seemed kind of bitchy lol love you grandma
Loren Smith when did Mansfield have taxis ..... I have four generations from that town and never did they have taxis
Like what?? 😂😂😂 this doesn’t makes sense lol
This was so much fun. I grew up with Little House on The Prairie. I still even have the book series.
When I was younger I watched Little House on the Prairie. I did not know I lived eight miles away from an actual town she grew up in, when I was 8 or 9 years old I told myself I want to live in this town that we came to visit for dentist appointments, when I got older I moved here and found out Laura Ingalls Wilder lived here. I raised two children and have grown to respect the town for what it is and the past it had. It is still a growing and thriving little town on the prairie. My daughter makes rosaries and sells them in a little store.
OMG I loveeeee the books, read it during highschool, while the twilight books are the mostly read at our school library, there i am hiding in the corner reading my Little house on the Prairie lol
FluffyMuffs you were far better off reading LH than anything twilight.
That, and Anne of Green Gables, and Chronicles of Narnia :)
Went on Wikipedia binge one night starting with Laura Ingalls Wilder and found the stories of Michael Landon and Rose Wilder to be the most fascinating and unexpected.
Thank you so much doing the piece I suggested!! I was very obsessed with her as a child. She an incredible woman
We bought the entire DVD set of these shows so that our 5 homeschooled children could enjoy them. Some of the scenes were a bit more upsetting than I had remembered when watching them the first time as a child. (Maybe because I was able to imagine the hardships as a mother and empathize better as an adult.) What good parents they were to have had such a driven and bright daughter! (A chip off the mom’s block, for sure!) What a wholesome book series and show they were!
I grew up reading the Little House on the Prairie books and this was an interesting insight into the life of the writer. L.M. Montgomery who wrote the Anne of Green Gable books would be a good author to profile as well as writer Thorne Smith whose 1941 book The Passionate Witch finished by Norman Matson was one of the pieces that provided the inspiration for the American TV show Bewitched. Ernest Hemmingway would also be an interesting character to profile.
Love to see an episode on Rose. She did, indeed, lead a fascinating life!
Really loving this history channel ...thx yt for the recommendation I've been been watching as many videos as I can for the past week.
My children and I grew up with Little House on the Prairie. We loved every show. Now we are grown and remember those memories.