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Article: A different childhood.(Laura Ingalls Wilder)
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- Appleseeds
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- May 1, 2006
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When Laura Ingalls was a child, most people in the United States lived east of the Mississippi River. Most Americans who lived in "the West" were American Indians. Pioneers like Laura's family lived very different lives from most American families. These pioneers survived by making their own clothes, growing crops, and hunting animals for meat and skins. There were few towns and not much communication with the cities back east. Laura's stories are about these people.
They are unusual stories, even for the 1870s. Most girls of her time didn't live such rustic lives. Let's look at the "opposite extreme." Had Laura been born into a wealthy New York City family, she ...
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