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Title:
Little House in the Prairie
Series: Little
House #2
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Rating:
4 of 5 Stars
Genre: MG Historical Fiction
Pages:
143
Words: 52K
Publish: 1935
I
called this the second book in the Little House series,
but publication date wise, it is the third. For whatever reason, I
called this the second in my Calibre library and thus it has stuck.
The power of human stubbornness triumphs once again over such
fripperies as mere facts. Booyah!
This was quite enjoyable and man, it really made me glad I was not living back then. Nature was against them, all the time. Other people. Malaria. Every where you turned, something was actively opposing them. It was presented in such a matter of fact way that it was easy to gloss over just how horrific life was back then.
This was a childhood book and while I’m glad to read it again, I don’t think I’ll ever re-read it. It’s really weird for me to be on this end of the spectrum now. It means I’m not just getting older, but that I’m getting just plain old. Boooo!
★★★★☆
From Grokipedia
Little House on the Prairie is the third novel in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, published in 1935 by Harper & Brothers.[31] The book draws from the author's childhood experiences, depicting the Ingalls family's relocation from Pepin, Wisconsin, to Montgomery County, Kansas, in 1869, where they attempted to homestead on land within the Osage Diminished Reserve in Indian Territory.[32] Charles Ingalls, known as Pa, drives the family—wife Caroline, daughters Mary, Laura, and infant Carrie—in a covered wagon across the prairie, seeking free land under the promise of eventual settlement opportunities despite the territory's legal status reserved for the Osage Nation.[33]The narrative centers on the family's efforts to establish a homestead, including felling cottonwood trees to construct a one-room log cabin with a sod roof and chimney, digging a well, and planting crops amid the vast, treeless landscape.[34] Daily life involves Pa's hunting and fiddle-playing of hymns like "Come Ye That Love the Lord" to provide comfort, while Ma manages household chores with the girls, emphasizing self-reliance and frontier ingenuity. Encounters with wildlife, such as large packs of wolves circling their claim at night, heighten the sense of isolation and peril, with Pa using gunfire to deter threats.[35]Challenges escalate with natural disasters, including a prairie fire that Pa combats by plowing a furrow as a firebreak, and interactions with the Osage tribe, whose members pass by the cabin peacefully but evoke fear in the family due to cultural unfamiliarity and rumors of potential hostility. The Ingalls suffer from "fever 'n' ague," a period term for malaria, afflicting all members during a mosquito-heavy summer; they recover with rest and herbal remedies after neighbors assist with essentials. Ultimately, U.S. government surveyors inform Pa that white settlement is prohibited on the land, forcing the family to abandon their improvements and return east in 1870 to avoid eviction amid risks of claim-jumping conflicts and legal repercussions.[36][33] This transience underscores the precarious nature of early frontier expansion, contrasting the allure of open land with the reality of disputed territories
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