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Set against nearly a century of epochal change, from the Homestead Act and the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, Wilder's dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance.
Settling on the frontier amidst land-rush speculation, Wilder's family encountered Biblical tribulations of locusts and drought, fire and ruin. Deep in debt after a series of personal tragedies, including the loss of a child and her husband's stroke, Wilder uprooted herself again, crisscrossing the country and turning to menial work to support her family. In middle age, she began writing a farm advice column, prodded by her self-taught journalist daughter. And at the age of sixty, after losing nearly everything in the Depression, she turned to children's books, recasting her hardscrabble childhood as a triumphal vision of homesteading - and achieving fame and fortune in the process, in one of the most astonishing rags-to-riches stories in American letters.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Caroline Fraser
- Publisher
- Little Brown Book Group
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 640
- Type
- Biography
- Publication Date
- 2017
- Dimensions
- 15.7x23.3 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780708898680
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