The popularity of the books increased from The Little House on the Prairie television series, which ran for episodes from Laura and Manly moved to Rocky Ridge Farm in and lived a comfortable life running a successful fruit and dairy farm.
While there are a number of historical sites that can still be visited today, some of the most popular include Mansfield, Missouri; De Smet, South Dakota, the setting for the final five books in the Little House series; and Walnut Grove, Minnesota. He was also the Libertarian candidate for President and a co-producer of the Little House on the Prairie television series.
Sources: Friendly Family Productions Biography. Laura wrote her books in pencil, using both sides of her yellow tablet paper to save money. The Little House series has sold over 60 million copies. Share This Article. Comments 0 comments Join the Conversation. Laura Ingalls Wilder intended to write a full novel on her early years married to Almanzo Wilder but she passed prior to finishing the book. Roger Lea MacBride "adopted" grandson of Rose, Laura's daughter found this manuscript after posthumously rummaging through Rose's things and decided to publish this anyway.
I don't wish it would've gone unpublished but at the same time, it's just not as good as the previous Bit of a lackluster end to one of my fave series This is an unfinished manuscript. I don't wish it would've gone unpublished but at the same time, it's just not as good as the previous books. We do get some content about the new hardships she faced as a wife and mother but the books don't have the same feel.
It feels shorter, rushed and repeats information from the eighth book. Roger Lea MacBride then inherited all of the Little House Royalties not Laura's extended family and proceeded to publish many a book based on the Ingalls family. His descendants still own the rights to Laura's life and estate opposed to Laura's family. I have not read those companion books nor do I intend to based on that principle.
Laura's books were autobiographical. His books are works of fiction. Plus it always bugged me that Roger MacBride took over the series. Laura's family survived - her aunts, uncles and cousins all survived - so while she didn't have any direct descents other than Rose, who never had surviving children but there are certainly Ingalls descendants who are there.
MacBride wrote a series from Rose's perspective often leaning on things that Rose supposedly told him during their few years as friends when she was in her 70s and he was just a boy. He also used the estate to amass a fortune based off of Laura's series. It bothers me. It really bothers me. To put this in perspective, if I went over to my year-old neighbor, became "friends" for a few years, grabbed the rights to her late mother's estate, then waited a few decades after her death to capitalize on her experiences as a child under the veil of being an "adopted" grandchild despite nothing legal ever happening If not wrong, at least a little shady and morally ambigious?
Then, when her surviving family goes, "no wait. That's OUR story" to refuse them anything, instead pass their the Ingall's family legacy to my completely unrelated family It seems Methinks quite a bit of it is fiction.
Quite frankly, if Rose wanted to tell the story, she would've written it herself. Anyway, that was a really long explanation to say Audiobook Comments Read by Cherry Jones and accompanied by Paul Woodiel on the fiddle - this lovely pair made this book amazing. View all 32 comments.
Jan 11, Majenta rated it it was amazing. Happy , everyone! Be well, be blessed! View all 7 comments. Discovered in and posthumously tacked onto the previous eight volumes of the 'Little House' series, it's obvious from the first pages that something's a little amiss here.
The tone is different, harder, more grown-up, with many details that ended 'These Happy Golden Years' changed here, and not for the better. After going off to live 'the life of a farmer's wife' in the previous book, the same scene is revisited, with Laura telling Manly she calls Almanzo by his nickname throughout the boo Discovered in and posthumously tacked onto the previous eight volumes of the 'Little House' series, it's obvious from the first pages that something's a little amiss here.
After going off to live 'the life of a farmer's wife' in the previous book, the same scene is revisited, with Laura telling Manly she calls Almanzo by his nickname throughout the book that he should work in a shop, and that she has no interest in being a farmer's wife. But probably closer to the truth, too. The lack of finesse added to other books by Laura's daughter Rose is noticeably absent here. Also, considering that the manuscript was found after her death, there's a good chance that it was unfinished, and might have been fleshed out at a later date.
It's interesting to see just how much hardship the couple endured in their four years of attempting to settle a land claim with the government. At the same time, the atrocities pile up so quickly, it's hard not to be come desensitized to them after a while. When the last ten pages is given over to 1 typhoon, 2 temporary blindless, 3 bankruptcy, 4 a fire that wipes out the family house and nearly kills Laura and Rose, it almost turns into some sort of black comedy, where the protagonist puts his foot in a bucket, falls off a cliff, and inadvertently starts World War III.
Of course, it wasn't a comedy, and as far as I know, these things actually happened, making it more depressing. If you're following this saga 'all the way to the bitter end,' you'll probably want to read this. If you just want to enjoy the fairy-tale tone and ambiance of the previous books, I beg of you to stop with 'These Happy Golden Years' and protect your innocence.
Since my girlfriend is writing a book about LIW, you can imagine that I'll riding this runaway train to the end of the line, but that doesn't mean you have to! View all 12 comments. Dad: How many stars? Eleanor: Daddy? I'm afraid I'm going to have to give it four, because two bad things happened.
Two really bad things, you know? You know? Dad: What two bad things? Eleanor: Well, view spoiler [ the baby getting spasms and dying Dad: I know, that was really, really depressing.
And I have to agree with you, Eleanor, this was a surprisingly depressing book. I mean, the others had bad stuff in them, that everyone fought through, but this one: man It was like th Dad: How many stars?
It was like there was no silver lining Dad: Because you liked them all so much? El: Yes. Dad: Did you feel bad when it was over? El: Yes Little House is all over now. I wish I could be a child again. Dad: No. But you can still read them all again. Did you cry when it ended? How come you want to know? Dad: I just find it interesting.
El: Why do you find it interesting that I cried? I find it sad that I cried. Dad: Well, it shows that you really loved the books. A lot With a smile. Did you feel sad when it ended? Dad: Yeah. I mean, we've spent what? Three years reading these books out loud? I feel like a big milestone of my time with you in your childhood is - or has come to a close. El: YES! I wonder what's going to happen in Little House?!?!?!? El: No. I had one reason: there are two bad things. Two really, really bad things.
Dad: That's what I mean. You only told me one of the bad things, what's the other one? Dad: That was pretty horrible. What did you think of it?
El: So sad, I almost cried during that part El: Laughingly : Hmmph Some things were good, and some things were bad. But I don't wish I lived back in Laura's Grandpa's days. Dad: Why not? El: Heh. Of course Because little girls had to behave all the time, not just on Sundays. And they could never slide down the hills like little boys.
Dad: You know that little girls had to "behave" even more in Laura's days than they do today, right? A little bit. I thought it was easier to be good when she was a kid. Dad: What do you mean by that? El: In her days, girls could slide down hills.
Dad: Yes, but there were still a lot of things that girls weren't allowed to do that boys could do, and girls weren't treated as fairly as they are today. In fact, many people today say girls still aren't treated fairly El: I can't think of any ways that girls are treated unfairly.
Can you think of any ways? Dad: Yeah, but I don't feel like discussing them with a 7 year old on a public review of a Little House book. Maybe we'll read the Declaration of Sentiments next. Maybe not next, but maybe sometime El: What's the Declaration of Sentiments?
Dad: A paper where some women said they wanted to be treated fairly. Hopefully we keep treating everyone better, and better. That's what I hope. El: I hope next year we treat someone better. Dad: Me too. I'm not sure how we started talking about this. Lets get back to Little House. El: Good idea. Dad: So, I know you loved it a whole lot, and I loved it too El: As I'm typing I loved it too much Maybe when you're a couple years older, you could read it to Gwennie, and write your very own reviews on your very own goodreads site without me.
What do you think about that? El: Good! And maybe someday I could read it to you!!! Dad: That would be fantastic. And you could ask me questions about the book, and then type up the answers!!! El: And you could tell me how many stars to give it! Dad: I can't wait! View all 15 comments. May 03, Jess the Shelf-Declared Bibliophile rated it liked it. Enjoyable read about their married life and struggles on the farm. This book reads differently than the previous Little House books.
It tells the story of the first few years of Almanzo and Laura's marriage, and how they struggled to make a living on the plains. In the introduction, Roger Lea MacBride who wrote the series that follows the adventures of Rose, Laura's daughter says that this handwritten manuscript was found among Laura's papers, and that it wasn't revised and edited the way the earlier books were, perhaps because Laura lost interest after Alman This book reads differently than the previous Little House books.
In the introduction, Roger Lea MacBride who wrote the series that follows the adventures of Rose, Laura's daughter says that this handwritten manuscript was found among Laura's papers, and that it wasn't revised and edited the way the earlier books were, perhaps because Laura lost interest after Almanzo died.
It's a bit clunky in parts, and much shorter than the previous books. Having paged through the publication of Laura's annotated autobiography, Pioneer Girl , it seems that the earlier revision process really fleshed out the stories, adding a lot of description to the narrative. And that revision didn't happen here, so this book isn't as richly written as the others. I have now reread the entire Little House series, and this final book of Laura's had a lot of tragedy in it: devastating storms, crop failures, and even a terrible fire.
And yet, it was nice to know that the family survived and later thrived — they just had to weather some rough years. Recommended for those who like pioneer stories. Does anything ever grow on this prairie? It's one thing after another - blizzards, tornadoes, heat, prairie fires, hail. Any thing kills the crops.
The most depressing installment of all. Laura seems to only take pleasure in running outside, riding horses and sometimes her daughter. Definitely NOT any kind of housework. View 2 comments. Jan 07, Dave Schaafsma rated it really liked it Shelves: children. The last in the Little House on the Prairie series we listened to through the previous eight books, though I listened o this on my own.
It's a different tone, an adult story, after the transition for Laura from pioneer girl to pioneer wife. I had read many of them while growing up with my sisters as we watched the Michael Landon series, too , but not this one, as it was published after Laura and ever daughter Rose had died. It's much shorter than the others in the series, too, 4 years in pag The last in the Little House on the Prairie series we listened to through the previous eight books, though I listened o this on my own.
It's much shorter than the others in the series, too, 4 years in pages, and it focuses more on challenges than triumphs. There's a recap from book eight of the wedding and Laura's seeing the house that handmade pantry! As with the other books, there is a kind of ethnographic feel to it, and this one captures farming practices, the weather.
They have horses, and they get sheep, they fend off fires and epic storms and illness and back-breakingly long hours of work. Laura bears two children, strengthened by one of the hymns Pa used to sing.
There's one death they have to face as well. Most people think of the first eight books as the series, as that focuses on Laura as a girl with Ma and Pa, but I thought this was a fine conclusion. I maybe think of it as three stars, somewhat less than the previous books because it feels less personal, less dialogue, less relationship focus, but if you have read all of it as I have, you are glad for this one last look at Laura. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.
To view it, click here. The First Four Years I was trying to put my finger on the real difference between the tone of this book and the tone of the other eight Little House books. Learn about the writer behind the beloved books that inspired the hit movies. Learn about the German brothers who made some of the most popular fairy tales of all time. Learn about the Jewish refugee whose painting of her aunt was stolen by Nazis and inspired the movie starring Helen Mirren.
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