Laura ingalls little house on the prairie

Much of it emanated from the 1970s-era television caricature, “Little House on the Prairie,” which leached the books of their rich specificity while displaying an often shirtless Michael Landon, chest shaved, addressing concerns never mentioned in the originals, including drug addiction, rape, and menopause.

“I realized that I had seen and lived it all,” she wrote later, “all the successive phases of the frontier a whole period of American history.” Written during the depression, when the author was in her sixties and seventies, these autobiographical narratives of enduring wildfire, drought, locusts, tornadoes, and blizzards have sold tens of millions of copies.īeloved though they may be, however, the books are in danger of being politicized, having already acquired a certain conservative aura.

THE LITTLE HOUSE BOOKS, eight novels published between 19, are Laura Ingalls Wilder’s tribute to the great plains and her homesteading family.