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Article: Laura Ingalls Wilder: Farm Journalist.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- April 1, 2008
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Farm Journalist
Stephen W. Hines, editor
University of Missouri Press
2910 LeMone Boulevard, Columbia, MO 65201
9780826217714, $34.95 www.umsystem.edu/upress 1-800-828-1894
Laura Ingalls Wilder will forever be remembered for her "Little House on the Prairie" books which have entertained generations of readers and been the source of one of television's most popular and long-running series. What is not so well known is that before writing her Little House books, she wrote short nonfiction pieces in magazines and newspapers. She passed away fifty years ago at the age of 90 at her home in the Missouri Ozarks. ...