I had a very abusive childhood and books are what helped me escape temporarily. I especially found comfort in LIW's books. Her books taught me to be strong and not let the pain I endured define me. I love her for that. ❤
Little house on the Prairie was my favorite show growing up and the greatest gift I've ever had is the entire Laura Ingalls Wilder book collection. I was 12 and hated to read because it didn't come easy for me but I read every single page of every book and never had reading and spelling problems again.
My childhood was Little House 💯 I absolutely loved growing up like that 🙌 it's my wish to live that way again before I die 💯 I don't like what the world has become 💔 and this concrete jungle ain't for me 💯
There was no wedding as you describe!!! Her books describe the young couple going to the Minister on their own , returning for dinner with her family and went to their home .
@@janethannam2766 That's Right! Almanzo's sister, ElizaJane, was a teacher who had Laura and Carrie In school and was not a fan of Laura's and her family, Nevertheless, she was all set to come "help" with the wedding. I think she was bringing Almanzo's mother too. Laura and Almanzo knew that the Ingalls couldn't afford such a wedding that would be produced by his two relatives. That's why they eloped , although Charles Ingalls stepped in to give her away to Almanzo. And allegedly ducked back out. That way they could tell ElizaJane, it was a Justice of the Peace wedding. .No family. No frills.
@@joannlessner1551 Her mother helped her make it. She was not planning a black dress but it was the fabric they had for her trouseau. Her mother uttered it was bad luck to marry in black. She said" marry in black wish yourself back." But Laura was practical. They had to rush the process because of the news the relatives were on their way
I loved her books as a child, and when I had a daughter, I introduced her to these books. As I read them to her, I found them just as captivating as when I’d first read them. Laura Ingalls Wilder had a profound gift, the ability to personalize history and draw her readers into that time, and way, of life. ❤❤❤
I’m 60, given them to my kids and grandkids now, and I still revisit them every 5 years or so❤️. Go through all of them, once again. (Oh I also introduced them to my grandson, he wasn’t thrilled😂 but he did get through farmer boy lol
My mother’s family settled near Malone, NY where Almonso Wilder was raised. When I read “Farmer Boy” from the series to my daughters it was like going back to the stories my mom and grandparents told me of growing up in the early 1900’s on a farm similar to Laura’s husband. I loved this book the most because I knew the area and circumstances that he grew up in. My grandma talked about that same country fair. She won a contest there when she had the longest continuous peal from an apple that she carefully pealed. They brought their prized animals, vegetables, quilts and other homemade goods to show for ribbons and prizes. I loved reading these books to my girls. Such wonderful memories. Thank you for this video.
Laura didn't learn sewing and design from her sewing jobs, ma taught her. That's how she was able to get those sewing jobs. Because she already knew how to sew and follow patterns.
Pretty sure Laura was married in a black dress. A black dress was practical. An all white wedding dress in those days?? Ridiculous. There a quite a few errors in this video. Hire an editor.
Laura and Almanzo were married at the Preacher's house then to her parents' home to a quiet reception there. Mary never had a home of her own! She lived with her parents then after their deaths, she lived with Carrie at her and her husband's home! The newly married couple then went to their little house that Almanzo built out in the country. Rose did not set the fire. Laura had started a fire in the stove! Read the books and the biographies about her!
Don't forget that her dress was Black, not White and it was a rush to get married before Almanzo sister turned up with their mother with visions of a big wedding.
My grandma took me to the bookmobile at a little country store when I stayed with them in the summer. I couldn't wait to get home read it and get the next one. I am 75 and still remember what a pleasure the were for me.
@@glendagrant9042 My great aunt gave me Little House on the Prairie when I was about 8. I was instantly hooked so I had to go to the library to check out the first one," Little House in the Big Woods" Ever since then, I would buy the one next in the series. Or my aunt got them for me. Her son got them for her at cost because he worked for Houghton Mifflin. It was great having an aunt who was a voracious reader too.
I read the Little House series of nine books to my daughter when she was about 8 years old. We loved and cherished these wonderful stories. When my daughter was 14 years old, her dad drove the three of us to Mansfield, Missouri to the Rocky Ridge Home and Museum. We toured the house and visited the museum and gift shop. I remember seeing Pa Ingalls’ fiddle at the museum. We took lots of pictures by the house. I really enjoyed listening to your telling of this story and seeing some pictures I had never seen before. Thank you very much for this stroll down memory lane!!!🎉
I live in Ireland and it was a much watch for all of the families on a Saturday evening in the 70's. I also remember reading the little house in the big woods when i was about 6. Great stuff and wonderful, simpler times❤
Shay, I'm 80 and I live in northwest Arkansas, near the Historic Site of the Wilder home in Missouri. We often refer to those times as "the good old days", but the people that lived in those times had a much harder life than we have today. Still, those days are nostalgic, and I'm old enough to remember some "good old days". Jesus is coming back some day, and when he does those will really, REALLY be some "good old days". God bless and keep you, Shay!
They went to the preachers house. The only ones there were the Rev. Brown his wife and their daughter Ida Brown Laura’s friend. Laura wore a black dress and when the wedding was over they went back to Laura’s parent’s house and had a family dinner.
I was looking for this because the idea of a pioneer woman tating the time to make a white dress is silly. Black is much more practical. It could be used for multiple occasions as opposed to an all white dress.
l named one of my triplet daughters Laura after Laura Ingalls. My triplet pregnancy was very difficult and it was because of Baby B (Laura) that the babies were born alive. She was also the one that lived the longest and spoke to me thru her eye as she laid in her basinette before leaving to be with her two sisters. Her strength through the entire pregnancy and birth reminded me of Laura Ingalls.
I am from Europe Italy and did find this most interesting.Never knew that the filming story came from existing people and above all in my trips to the States to friends who immigrated to America from the 1940 to the 1950 never heard about it I don't even know if they knew about it. Nice to learn something in my old age and perhaps try to buy an original book to pas my winter nights and inform my grandchildren . Thanks
You won't regret it; those books got me through my loneliest years as a bullied teen. They gave me hope, that if these people with such otherwise meager means can not only survive--but THRIVE--that at some point I too, would find my way "home" to love & happiness. ❤️🩹❤️❤️
I grew up watching Little House everyday my whole life. When I learned a few years ago that Adam never existed and Mary never left their parents home I felt brokenhearted and lied to.
@@SherryGraham-h6b I believe @MaryFox1460 meant the actual times in which the Ingalls were living (late 1800's-early 1900's). It wasn't easy to afford the extras raising a blind youngster. While Mary really did go to a blind school for a short period it wasn't all encompassing and romantic. And they weren't wealthy, Pa Ingalls may have been one of the lead voices in the town, it wasn't indicative of being a paid position to afford more things. So let's please be kind. 🫠 God bless you - and all of our ladies and gentlemen Laura Ingalls-Wilder fans. 🕊
@SM75j, I truly understand the disappointment of learning the added funny/dramatic ways in which the stories were retold in the Little House TV series. They took great, creative license to make the series last longer and more dramatically entertaining, mixing the true family characters, while weaving in some of our [then] modern day issues [prejudices, addictions, death, et al]. When I eventually read her autobiography and biographies it was difficult and a little sad to learn their reality. My sister refused to read the books because she too didn't want to think the TV stories were lies. It was too wonderful to her the way writers' depicted. We still watch the show daily too. 🥰 God bless you - and all our ladies and gentlemen Laura Ingalls-Wilder fans 🕊
As a distant cousin of Laura Ingalls (my 11th great grandmother was Faith Ingalls), I thank you for this. Be her voice. She’s not here to tell her story.
Half of this is miss information. I stop listening when he say Laura was married at her sister Mary house. When Laura married, her sister was still at the blind college.
most of these videos are full of misinformation - which is why we will have to work 10 times harder to educate... here's hoping that works out, and ASAP
That’s about where I quit too. When he said she got married at Mary’s house and made herself a white wedding dress when she was married at the parsonage and made herself a practical black dress. Not worth listening to.
They show the wedding photo with Laura wearing a black dress and then claim she had worn a white one. I don't think Laura would have ever done that, she was way too practical. I remember the story of the wedding and the black dress very well.
That’s right! Her black cambric dress she had just made it was her best dress. I’ve read these books a million times. They’ve brought me so much comfort !!
Yes, and they married in haste because Eliza Jane was trying to take over the wedding plans. Mary lived her life in her parents' home, then in their sister Grace's home with her husband.
LIW was a real person who lived on the prairie during the 1800s. All people and all families experienced hardship. It was a very hard life with almost zero medical care, scratching out a meager living through back breaking work. In spite of this they loved one another, had loyalty towards one another, received an education and enjoyed nature, music , books and Dancing to name a few. Laura was blessed with the skill of writing and describing the world in a poetic way, which she did for her sister Mary. It was a long interesting well lived life. I’m happy to have read all her books many times over and pass them on.
I adored the collection of Laura Ingalls Wilder books. I never owned one, but I eagerly checked them out at my school's library. I was around eight when I started reading them. This led me to develop a keen interest in stories of wagon trains as people moved west. As an adult, I had the pleasure of reading my great-grandma's family story covering their own journey west by wagon when she was a little girl. It is such an amazing story, from interesting details of living in a sod house, serious illnesses, living on only cornmeal for six weeks. Like Laura's family, losses and hardships, mixed with times of great joy. I would love to try and have it published but have no idea where to start. In any case, when I pass, I want my sons to at least offer it to a history museum.
I have an interest in the stories of women living through that period. Please do some writing of your great grandmother’s stories making additional notes, etc. It sounds like a great project. Good luck!
Yes! Please do, that would be great. Perhaps check with submitting your grandmother's stories as a series in a magazine, that's how Mrs Ingalls-Wilder started. A magazine dedicated to life and times in history, try "The Good Old Days," or "Reminisce" magazines. I had subscriptions for those.
@li33-bee I will check out those magazines, Thank you! That was my Great grandma. My own Grandma's story was pretty amazing too. She became a widow with four small children during the depression. Nearly everyone in her town was out of work. My mother, her oldest, told me countless things about their depression years and how my grandma managed to pull through those years.
The story of Laura Ingalls Wilder is a very thought-provoking and inspirational one. But the teachings, patriotic and philosophical convictions of her daughter Rose are priceless and need to be taught at all levels of our educational systems. She would have made an amazing president. The world needs more Roses - especially at this particular point in history.
Sounds like you loved your 4th grade teacher, too. Everyone loved my fourth grade teacher. She taught us to craft the most wonderful things! I mean, very nice things to gift our parents. We even wove baskets from reeds she supplied. I'm seventy-three now. You never forget the great teachers. Mine was Mrs. Armantrout.
@@Upstream5402 That is beautiful. What a legacy. I remember doing projects like that in grade school as well. It's a lost art now, with all of the "progressive" technology young people are drowning in at school and ignoring cultural backgrounds. Terribly sad to me. God bless you
Thank you for this information. I loved the books, and have followed the controversy about Rose’s contribution, and I’ve read about both of their lives and accomplishments. I appreciated hearing about the correspondence they had with each other and about their relationship.
@agenaw2877 Thank you. I wonder if the loss of boys was genetic. Laura wrote that Freddy was "never a well baby," and this may have factored into him not being able to recover from the fatal bout of gastroenteritis. (I read gastroenteritis was going around that area the summer he died, but the death register I read didn't list many for gastroenteritis (or "diarrhoea"). I know Baby Manley got sick shortly after birth. Now I am going to read about Rose's family. I would like more comprehensive LHOTP documentaries because there is so much more to Laura, her family, and her friends/acquaintances.
The tv series had Laura in a white wedding dress. The book that talked about her wedding explained why she ended up wearing a black dress. The movie or tv series is very different from her book series telling the happenings of her life. Laura was a very resilient person, start to finish.
You should read 'Pioneer Girl'. The original autobiography that Laura wrote, but never got published til after The Little House Books were published. It is VERY different than the Little House Books. After reading it l understood why The Little House Books are in the fiction section of the library and book stores. 😢 l was sad about learning alot about some of the facts.
@@barbaraparker6996Laura said that what she told us in the books was true - but not the whole truth. After reading Pioneer Girl, I can see that’s the truth!
@@DarDeBruinHein Yes l read that in the book 'The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder' by Marta McDowell. Leaving out the fact that a family lived with them during the hard winter, and that it wasn't Pa, but a neighbor that survived the snowbank. Loved the fact that there were 3 girls she used to create Nellie. So BASED was an important word in describing her books. I still love to read them every now and then. Wonderful children's books.
I don't like the title of this video because, aside from being grammatically awkward, their lives did not end in tragedy. They had a fine farm, raised a variety of animals and crops, and built their own house from the materials on the farm. They had one daughter who lived to have at least one child of her own (can't recall for sure). Mother and daughter became writers and won awards for their achievements. Seems like Almanzo died at home, in his sleep, I think Laura died at home, too. Where is the great tragedy?
I loved teaching some of America's history to my kindergarten classes, using "Little House in the Big Woods," and "Little House on the Prairie." The books begin with Laura having the same ages as kindergarten students. My students, both girls and boys, loved the stories that were in the books. We made lap books, projects, and churned our own butter when we watched the pilot movie. My students gained a rich knowledge of pioneer life, increased their listening skills, vocabulary, and a love for American history. I have loved these books since I was a little girl, growing up in the Pennsylvania mountains.
While I did not read Laura's books, I loved the Little House television series. I had no idea that her daughter was so accomplished. Both women had interesting lives.
The books tell a much different tale. Michael Landon added a lot of stuff that wasn't true. The ingalls never adopted any children. Mary never married or had a child . There was no Adam. No dog Jack. He made up so much. Once you read the books the TV show will almost disgust you.
My grandmother born in 1894 gave me laura Ingram‘s little house books from when I was a little child. I was was born in 1952. I consider her the best way to learn about how it was to live back in that time.And absolutely love her books. Not so hot on Michael Landon’s TV show however
I wish that the Little House on the Prairie series actually followed the books! They didn’t need to add all of the extra stuff that they did, the stories as remembered by Laura and written for children, were plenty interesting enough!
I read all of the little house books when I was on elementary school and I loved them, when I grew up and had kids my daughter discovered little house on the Prairie on TV and started watching it. I was surprised to see how much she liked it being Gen Z. I didn’t know anything about her daughter Rose but it sounds like she and I would’ve gotten along really well 😊
This show and the Walton's I grew up watching. In the north far from the south and yet it felt like home watching these shows and listening to country music and riding horses at the city state fair. I long to ride on the trails. Wonderful show and TV that gave us a family to grow with, when our family totally fell apart.
Exactly! It feels like having a home to me too. My family was dysfunctional and I loved to watch and read these for that sense of home and faith I needed. I hope life became more whole as you grew. It isn't easy. God bless you
Actually she had what was referred to as Brain fever (Meningoencephalitis) which is a combination of meningitis and encephalitis which also caused her to have a small stroke which mainly affected her face and cause her blindness..
I doubt the illness of meningitis was medically recognized at the time Mary became ill. Laura Ingalls Wilder said scarlet fever caused Mary's blindness.
I absolutely love and romanticize her lifestyle! I’ve read the series with my kids twice and have watched all the shows at least once but probably more for most! We homestead and live in a camper on an off grid farm, so I refer to us as “The little camper on the prairie “ lol! 😅❤😊
I loved the Little House on the Prairie TV show. When I found out there were books I started buying them (and reading them) with my allowance. I think I have all of them or close to all of them. I wish I had access to those books now so I could read them again.
Thankyou for sharing ❤ I grew up watching the TV series and her books in elementary school were part of class read and book reports .so I enjoyed seeing her real life pics and the pics from the series put me exactly on key to your read 📚❤
Laura and Almanso Wilder only lost one child in South Dakota. I think he was around 2 years old when he passsed away. They had a daughter named Rose. Rose became an author too.
So many mistakes/misinformation in this video. Don't bother watching. If you want a more "adult" version of the Little House series of books, read "Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Biography," Laura's original draft, edited by Pamela Smith Hill, or "Pioneer Girl: The Revised Texts," edited by Nancy Tystad Koupal, which is the latest, revised version. It delves deeper into Laura's life and how she and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, edited Laura's original manuscripts into what eventually became the Little House series. Both are excellent and I even learned a few things I didn't know about Laura's life.
To be fair, there were a lot of real pictures. It's not like photography was common, especially in the early years. A good portion of people were introduced to Laura because of the series.
When I worked in an assisted living home, I read the series to the residents, every other day, from 2 to 3. They had time for a nap first, after lunch. I would give them all a snack and a drink, and I would read, and then I would ask them questions about their life growing up.. It was such a fun time, for me, to learn so much about my lovely oldies but goodies. This was the only activity that I could get almost all the residents involved in. They all loved the books.
My Grandmother started me on the Laura Ingalls books when I was young. By 1974, when the series first aired, I had already read the entire Little House series. I was 11, and so very excited to watch it. Immediately, in the first episode, Mary wasn't blind. I knew right then the show was not going to adhere to the books, I never watched it again. Michael Landon stated that people wouldn't want to see the story as it truly was. He was wrong. I still have my set of books, and as an adult, I have reread them. Since then, I have found very few movies that actually follow the books, it's just the way it goes I suppose.
The books themselves weren't 100% to-the-letter true either. Laura combined some life events to her stories to make sense. Or left out something here and there that she didn't think were necessary. Read her autobiography for the facts.
@ I have, thank you. It was only the one fact , and that was that Mary was blind. I have never seen that disputed anywhere, by anyone, except the television network and Michael Landon.
Most of this video is factual, but there are still several inaccuracies along with that more than one of the photographs shown are NOT Laura and Almonzo. Their wedding ceremony was NOT held in her sister Mary's house, Mary was away at the college for the blind in Vinton, Iowa at the time of their nuptials and never went on to have her own house anyway. After finishing college, she returned to her and Laura's parents' Charles and Caroline's home and lived there til she passed away many years later. Laura and Almonzo's wedding ceremony was held at Reverend Brown's home of the which, he and his wife's adopted daughter Ida Brown was one of Laura's best friends from school. All this and I'm only halfway through the video. And she did not wear a white dress, she wore a black cashmere dress that she and her mother made.
I found the hx of Rose very enlightening...never knew that storyline. She sounds like my kind of lady! "What is this, the gestopo!?" GOOD FOR HER! Descriptive, truthful and hazardous words then and now.
If you’re going to do a video about a real life person, use photos from that person’s life only, not videos of the show that was far removed from reality. The caption is awful, should have been edited before posting the video. The Little House series have remained as my favorite book series since I was 10, 50 years ago. I introduced it to my daughter and bought her a set of her own because I couldn’t bear to part with my own.
100% agree. I thought I was going to see real pictures and documentation of her life, not cheesy stock footage, and old 70's tv show clips to fill up the lack of content. It was super disappointing, I couldn't finish it, I'll look around for a better documentary. Hopefully younger viewers who don't know about her will decide to look elsewhere for her interesting story. Her true historical record.
All due respect, the Little House books are also inaccurate. The original title of “The Long Winter” was “The Hard Winter.’ Laura was pressured to change it, because the publisher thought kids wouldn’t read a book with the word ‘hard’ in the title. The content of that book is missing the fact that a family of three was living with the Ingalls family. Laura said in other sources, ‘they didn’t help with any of the work, but they ate our food.’ For an accurate account of her life, read “Pioneer Girl The Annotated Biography.’
Laura's wedding dress was black cashmere. They wanted to get married quickly before Almonzo's family turned it into a big event that they could not afford. Also, Laura said it was more practical.
Interesting fact: through her father’s side, Laura Ingalls Wilder is related to Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Charles Ingalls originally came from New York State, and he was connected to the Delano family, which was where FDR’s mother, Sarah Delano, came from.
When i was 7yrs old i got a book orders kids often got through school and there was a book being advertised and it was "little house in the big woods" it was for 99¢ and my mom ordered it for me. The day finally arrived when i got the book i was hooked on the book series. When I had my little girl i named her serenity Elizabeth rose. There's 2 people i admired the most when it came to the name Elizabeth queen Elizabeth I she proved in a male dominated era you don't need a man for everything and laura Ingalls Wilder. Laura herself was a true pioneer and the fact she went through hardships most of us can't relate to unless we walked in her shoes. I'm glad rose inspired and encouraged her mom to write about her childhood to her adult years you don't see that anymore when it comes to childhood authors
I was introduced to Laura Ingalls Wilder in 5th grade. My homeroom teacher read, "Little House in the Big Woods". I think it was because the story was being told by a little girl with a big sister. I could relate to that since I had a prettier, smarter big sister, and a younger sister, too. That was.ME.
The entire wedding story IS WRONG! I just listened to the audio version of the books and it was NOT at Mary’s house. Mary was blind and at blind college. They had the wedding early as Almonsos sister was planning on coming to town and taking over and bringing his Mom. Almonso was farming and couldn’t spend the money or take the time off so they married at the preacher house in the afternoon and yes you are 190% correct on the dress. WTF is this channel referring to?
Thank you all for correcting this!!! That’s wild and I’m sorry the weird cocktail lounge music in the background was an odd choice! It was driving me crazy. Mary was at the Iowa school for the blind. She has a roommate named Blanche. This part wasn’t accurate.
The Little House books are responsible for my love of reading. Every school day after lunch our teachers would read us a chapter from a book. When she read Little House in the Big Woods I fell in love. I had to read them all, and I did, in 3rd grade. The tv series wasn’t done yet so it was up to my imagination. I learned that you can go anywhere and be anyone in between the covers of a book.
little house on the prairie was and is still one of my favorite shows. I still watch it on Amazon. Too bad Rose never married to carry on the tradition and legacy of her and her mother. Now buried. Maybe it will pass on down our generations and give our children and grandchildren the true reality of what the pioneer days were like and they could learn from that. In the education system the powers that be are working hard to erase the truth of history. Sad people are like that but, glad for people like Laura Wilder and Rose Wilder.
Rose did marry, had a son, who died early. She was divorced and had a remarkable career. She and her son are buried with Laura and Almanzo in Mansfield.
I love “Little House on the Prairie “. And I had scarlet fever as a child. I wear glasses and I am not blind. Even decades later after having scarlet fever, I can still see with glasses. Now, every year, I get checked out for glaucoma.
Mary didn't have scarlet fever that was changed for the books but actually she had what was referred to as Brain fever (Meningoencephalitis) which is a combination of meningitis and encephalitis which also caused her to have a small stroke which mainly affected and paralyzed her face on the left side and cause her blindness.
My mother's parents eloped in DeSmet, they got married at his sister's house and let his mother listen to the wedding ceremony on the phone. This was in the early thirties i think.
All people who were pioneers had really, really hard lives. So yes their life was tragic. This titles should be more to the effect of "They had a hard early life but made it out and did well for themselves".
Some of this matches what is in the books, but other information does not. I know she changed some things in the books. From my understanding, Mary didn’t live by herself. She lived with her parents. It would be very unlikely that a single, young, blind girl would live alone in that day and age. In the book, Laura and Almanzo got married at the parsonage without any of their family members there. She made a BLACK dress because that would be more practical for a married woman to use for other events. I quit listening at that point since I can’t trust what’s being said. There is a large volume of Laura’s original manuscript with added explanatory notes available, which is very interesting. That was where I found out some things had been changed to make them more appropriate for children, and even to connect the stories. For example, Nellie Olsen was not Laura’s only nemesis, but she kept the name Nellie for another girl who caused her trouble. That made more sense to me, since it would seem very unlikely that two families would follow the same trail, stopping at the same towns along the way. I recommend the actual books, especially the original manuscript book to fill in a lot of the blanks. Forget listening to people who don’t know what they’re talking about.
Does the original manuscript have a certain name I can look up online to buy? Also she changed it in the books and said Mary went blind because of scarlet fever when Actually she had what was referred to as Brain fever (Meningoencephalitis) which is a combination of meningitis and encephalitis which also caused her to have a small stroke which mainly affected and paralyzed the left side of her face and cause her blindness.
There is no proof that their house fire was caused by Rose. Rose was convinced this was the case, and didn't confess until she and Laura were both quite elderly, although she was haunted by it her whole life. She was shocked to find that her mother did not for a moment believe her child set the house on fire, and laid no blame at her feet. Rose spent her life driven to make sure to take care of her parents; she felt a powerful need to make sure they always had a home and whatever they needed, although they could take care of themselves quite well. She was haunted by the guilt of depriving her parents of a home they treasured, and she was convinced she had destroyed. She was only a toddler of three; what she swears happened and what really happened will never truly be known.
I devoured the books about 40 years ago. They were totally enchanting! However, the TV series was disappointingly UN-like the books. I live in northwest Arkansas, not far from Laura's home near Mansfield Missouri. It has been preserved as a Historical Site. I passed by it once, but for various reasons we couldn't stop for a visit. Has anybody else noticed how much the actor that portrayed Almanzo Wilder looked like James Arness? (Marshal Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke")
I'm enjoying reading everyone's comments. It’s beautiful to see so many people loving Laura and her family as much as I do. It’s also fun - a competition of who learned more facts than the next fan. 😃🕊🎉 They could've added these to the Jeopardy game show, "Alex, I'll take Little House for $500." 😂
Laura did NOT wear a white wedding dress. In the books ,she and ma made her dress out of a black velvety material. The fire that destroyed their house was accidentally set by Laura, NOT Rose!
Apparently, much of the books were written by her daughter, Rose. If you find her biography, you'll see her life was quite different from the books, much harsher, among other things.
Pronounce his name correctly: Al MAN Zo. This from Dean Butler himself. In an interview, he said they were getting the name wrong throughout the entire series.
What's tragic? they had a wonderful life together (No Hollywd.)! I loved her books, growing up; still remember the descriptions of food, dinner; it was a good homelife that included faith in God.
My great grandpatrents moved to ND in the late 1800s to grow wheat. That is what they farmed in Germany. My grandmother died in the 1818 flu epidemic in December of 1818, her 5 siblings also died of this days apart.
I had a very abusive childhood and books are what helped me escape temporarily. I especially found comfort in LIW's books. Her books taught me to be strong and not let the pain I endured define me. I love her for that. ❤
Books, especially LIW's was an escape for me, too. I was not abused, but my childhood was marked by other trauma and upheaval.
Same here! Glad she wrote them.
Same with me. Reading my books, including the Little House books, taught me what normal was.
I'm so sorry you had to endure abuse. I think a lot of people are finally ending the cycle of abuse they and their parents were born into.
Little house on the Prairie was my favorite show growing up and the greatest gift I've ever had is the entire Laura Ingalls Wilder book collection. I was 12 and hated to read because it didn't come easy for me but I read every single page of every book and never had reading and spelling problems again.
Or just buy a book about her life...
@KARanngem81wof What? Smh try reading my comment before replying.
@@KARanngem81wof What do you think the Laura Ingalls Wilder book collection is?
My childhood was Little House 💯 I absolutely loved growing up like that 🙌 it's my wish to live that way again before I die 💯 I don't like what the world has become 💔 and this concrete jungle ain't for me 💯
I never saw the TV show, but I've read the books. It was interesting to read them when we lived in Nebraska - made it very relatable. ❤
She is my great aunt. My adopted parents did a family search in Utah years ago. I love her books .
How? Laura was the only Ingalls girl to have children and her daughter Rose had no living children.
@@kayeb7809 Almonzo had many brothers and sisters
It may be a good thing to reach out to your family through her. Exciting! I hope it is exciting for you. Don’t be shy.
This is lovely but the music ugh!!!!! So annoying!
@@dorindacontreras1094 Almonzo's grandma is my distant cousin! Kinda cool
There was no wedding as you describe!!!
Her books describe the young couple going to the Minister on their own , returning for dinner with her family and went to their home .
Also the dress was black, not white.
You can see it in the wedding Picture in the beginning that her dress was black.
@@janethannam2766 That's Right! Almanzo's sister, ElizaJane, was a teacher who had Laura and Carrie In school and was not a fan of Laura's and her family, Nevertheless, she was all set to come "help" with the wedding. I think she was bringing Almanzo's mother too. Laura and Almanzo knew that the Ingalls couldn't afford such a wedding that would be produced by his two relatives. That's why they eloped , although Charles Ingalls stepped in to give her away to Almanzo. And allegedly ducked back out. That way they could tell ElizaJane, it was a Justice of the Peace wedding. .No family. No frills.
@@joannlessner1551 Her mother helped her make it. She was not planning a black dress but it was the fabric they had for her trouseau. Her mother uttered it was bad luck to marry in black. She said" marry in black wish yourself back." But Laura was practical. They had to rush the process because of the news the relatives were on their way
I loved her books as a child, and when I had a daughter, I introduced her to these books. As I read them to her, I found them just as captivating as when I’d first read them. Laura Ingalls Wilder had a profound gift, the ability to personalize history and draw her readers into that time, and way, of life. ❤❤❤
I’m 60, given them to my kids and grandkids now, and I still revisit them every 5 years or so❤️. Go through all of them, once again. (Oh I also introduced them to my grandson, he wasn’t thrilled😂 but he did get through farmer boy lol
My mother’s family settled near Malone, NY where Almonso Wilder was raised. When I read “Farmer Boy” from the series to my daughters it was like going back to the stories my mom and grandparents told me of growing up in the early 1900’s on a farm similar to Laura’s husband. I loved this book the most because I knew the area and circumstances that he grew up in. My grandma talked about that same country fair. She won a contest there when she had the longest continuous peal from an apple that she carefully pealed. They brought their prized animals, vegetables, quilts and other homemade goods to show for ribbons and prizes. I loved reading these books to my girls. Such wonderful memories. Thank you for this video.
Laura didn't learn sewing and design from her sewing jobs, ma taught her. That's how she was able to get those sewing jobs. Because she already knew how to sew and follow patterns.
Yes :)
Yeah, there are a few things that are incorrect in this video.
Pretty sure Laura was married in a black dress. A black dress was practical. An all white wedding dress in those days?? Ridiculous. There a quite a few errors in this video. Hire an editor.
She was because they had a quick wedding. They didn't have $$ for a large wedding.
Laura Engles Wilder didn't even start publishing her books until she was in her 60's.She was an incredible woman.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I enjoyed learning about her daughter, Rose, a phenomenal person in her own right.
@lorianderson-musgrave3609 yes and the books about her childhood in Missouri are fun to read too
Laura and Almanzo were married at the Preacher's house then to her parents' home to a quiet reception there. Mary never had a home of her own! She lived with her parents then after their deaths, she lived with Carrie at her and her husband's home! The newly married couple then went to their little house that Almanzo built out in the country. Rose did not set the fire. Laura had started a fire in the stove! Read the books and the biographies about her!
Don't forget that her dress was Black, not White and it was a rush to get married before Almanzo sister turned up with their mother with visions of a big wedding.
My grandma took me to the bookmobile at a little country store when I stayed with them in the summer. I couldn't wait to get home read it and get the next one. I am 75 and still remember what a pleasure the were for me.
@@glendagrant9042 My great aunt gave me Little House on the Prairie when I was about 8. I was instantly hooked so I had to go to the library to check out the first one," Little House in the Big Woods" Ever since then, I would buy the one next in the series. Or my aunt got them for me. Her son got them for her at cost because he worked for Houghton Mifflin. It was great having an aunt who was a voracious reader too.
I read the Little House series of nine books to my daughter when she was about 8 years old. We loved and cherished these wonderful stories. When my daughter was 14 years old, her dad drove the three of us to Mansfield, Missouri to the Rocky Ridge Home and Museum. We toured the house and visited the museum and gift shop. I remember seeing Pa Ingalls’ fiddle at the museum. We took lots of pictures by the house. I really enjoyed listening to your telling of this story and seeing some pictures I had never seen before. Thank you very much for this stroll down memory lane!!!🎉
I live in Ireland and it was a much watch for all of the families on a Saturday evening in the 70's. I also remember reading the little house in the big woods when i was about 6. Great stuff and wonderful, simpler times❤
Shay, I'm 80 and I live in northwest Arkansas, near the Historic Site of the Wilder home in Missouri. We often refer to those times as "the good old days", but the people that lived in those times had a much harder life than we have today. Still, those days are nostalgic, and I'm old enough to remember some "good old days". Jesus is coming back some day, and when he does those will really, REALLY be some "good old days". God bless and keep you, Shay!
So much so in Ireland that I'm named after one of the actresses. We loved that show as kids, my Mom REALLY did.
@notmyworld44 and you too dear. Love to you and may God protect you. Thank you for your lovely comment, much appreciated,
Shay
@@melissatuohy6577 🥰 My first-born daughter is named Laura! 😉
They went to the preachers house. The only ones there were the Rev. Brown his wife and their daughter Ida Brown Laura’s friend. Laura wore a black dress and when the wedding was over they went back to Laura’s parent’s house and had a family dinner.
When he said Laura was married in her sister's house, I said no she didn't so I went looking for a comment that would correct what he said. Thank you.
I was looking for this because the idea of a pioneer woman tating the time to make a white dress is silly. Black is much more practical. It could be used for multiple occasions as opposed to an all white dress.
There are a lot of things that are incorrect in this documentary.
@@NeridaAisbett58Yeah, I don’t think Mary ever lived on her own.
@@zorakj She didn't.
I loved her books and passed them onto my daughter when she was little.
l named one of my triplet daughters Laura after Laura Ingalls. My triplet pregnancy was very difficult and it was because of Baby B (Laura) that the babies were born alive. She was also the one that lived the longest and spoke to me thru her eye as she laid in her basinette before leaving to be with her two sisters. Her strength through the entire pregnancy and birth reminded me of Laura Ingalls.
So sorry for y our loss!
I'm so sorry 😢
Oh my. I'm so sorry. God bless.
Sorry for your loss
I am from Europe Italy and did find this most interesting.Never knew that the filming story came from existing people and above all in my trips to the States to friends who immigrated to America from the 1940 to the 1950 never heard about it I don't even know if they knew about it. Nice to learn something in my old age and perhaps try to buy an original book to pas my winter nights and inform my grandchildren . Thanks
You won't regret it; those books got me through my loneliest years as a bullied teen. They gave me hope, that if these people with such otherwise meager means can not only survive--but THRIVE--that at some point I too, would find my way "home" to love & happiness. ❤️🩹❤️❤️
Love this show , still watch it every morning, and i still have my books ,my mom got me back in the 70s
I grew up watching Little House everyday my whole life. When I learned a few years ago that Adam never existed and Mary never left their parents home I felt brokenhearted and lied to.
I saw that coming on the first episode.
Being blind at that time May have been a restriction at that time.
@@maryfox1460 No it wasn't. There were movies about Helen Keller. Why would being blind be a restriction for anything?
@@SherryGraham-h6b I believe @MaryFox1460 meant the actual times in which the Ingalls were living (late 1800's-early 1900's). It wasn't easy to afford the extras raising a blind youngster. While Mary really did go to a blind school for a short period it wasn't all encompassing and romantic. And they weren't wealthy, Pa Ingalls may have been one of the lead voices in the town, it wasn't indicative of being a paid position to afford more things.
So let's please be kind. 🫠
God bless you - and all of our ladies and gentlemen Laura Ingalls-Wilder fans. 🕊
@SM75j, I truly understand the disappointment of learning the added funny/dramatic ways in which the stories were retold in the Little House TV series. They took great, creative license to make the series last longer and more dramatically entertaining, mixing the true family characters, while weaving in some of our [then] modern day issues [prejudices, addictions, death, et al]. When I eventually read her autobiography and biographies it was difficult and a little sad to learn their reality. My sister refused to read the books because she too didn't want to think the TV stories were lies. It was too wonderful to her the way writers' depicted. We still watch the show daily too. 🥰
God bless you - and all our ladies and gentlemen Laura Ingalls-Wilder fans 🕊
Most famous pioneer author of all time❤
As a distant cousin of Laura Ingalls (my 11th great grandmother was Faith Ingalls), I thank you for this. Be her voice. She’s not here to tell her story.
Love this video piece! Little House on the Prarie TV series & books continue to be my favorite since childhood.
Love the series of books and TV series. Not all in this video is accurate, kind of half and half.
I homeschooled and my oldest daughter did the laura Ingalls books for studies!!! Talk about a very intelligent daughter!!! I AM grateful for this!!!
Half of this is miss information. I stop listening when he say Laura was married at her sister Mary house. When Laura married, her sister was still at the blind college.
most of these videos are full of misinformation - which is why we will have to work 10 times harder to educate... here's hoping that works out, and ASAP
That’s about where I quit too. When he said she got married at Mary’s house and made herself a white wedding dress when she was married at the parsonage and made herself a practical black dress. Not worth listening to.
They show the wedding photo with Laura wearing a black dress and then claim she had worn a white one. I don't think Laura would have ever done that, she was way too practical. I remember the story of the wedding and the black dress very well.
She wore a black wedding dress. It’s detailed in her book. Poor research.
She wore her new good dress for her wedding.
@@Anne_B.that’s right!
That’s right! Her black cambric dress she had just made it was her best dress. I’ve read these books a million times. They’ve brought me so much comfort !!
Her son died. Her daughter rose lived.
Yes, and they married in haste because Eliza Jane was trying to take over the wedding plans. Mary lived her life in her parents' home, then in their sister Grace's home with her husband.
LIW was a real person who lived on the prairie during the 1800s. All people and all families experienced hardship.
It was a very hard life with almost zero medical care, scratching out a meager living through back breaking work.
In spite of this they loved one another, had loyalty towards one another, received an education and enjoyed nature, music , books and
Dancing to name a few.
Laura was blessed with the skill of writing and describing the world in a poetic way, which she did for her sister Mary.
It was a long interesting well lived life. I’m happy to have read all her books many times over and pass them on.
I liked that you included Rose's life along with Laura's.
They failed to mention how Rose had a baby boy that died
I adored the collection of Laura Ingalls Wilder books. I never owned one, but I eagerly checked them out at my school's library. I was around eight when I started reading them. This led me to develop a keen interest in stories of wagon trains as people moved west. As an adult, I had the pleasure of reading my great-grandma's family story covering their own journey west by wagon when she was a little girl. It is such an amazing story, from interesting details of living in a sod house, serious illnesses, living on only cornmeal for six weeks. Like Laura's family, losses and hardships, mixed with times of great joy. I would love to try and have it published but have no idea where to start. In any case, when I pass, I want my sons to at least offer it to a history museum.
I have an interest in the stories of women living through that period. Please do some writing of your great grandmother’s stories making additional notes, etc. It sounds like a great project. Good luck!
Yes! Please do, that would be great. Perhaps check with submitting your grandmother's stories as a series in a magazine, that's how Mrs Ingalls-Wilder started. A magazine dedicated to life and times in history, try "The Good Old Days," or "Reminisce" magazines. I had subscriptions for those.
@li33-bee I will check out those magazines, Thank you! That was my Great grandma. My own Grandma's story was pretty amazing too. She became a widow with four small children during the depression. Nearly everyone in her town was out of work. My mother, her oldest, told me countless things about their depression years and how my grandma managed to pull through those years.
I thought there'd be at least a mention of Rose's marriage to Gillette Lane, her own loss of a baby son, her many travels...
The story of Laura Ingalls Wilder is a very thought-provoking and inspirational one. But the teachings, patriotic and philosophical convictions of her daughter Rose are priceless and need to be taught at all levels of our educational systems. She would have made an amazing president. The world needs more Roses - especially at this particular point in history.
My 4th grade teacher taught me to love her books and we had a old fashioned day where we all dress pioneer ❤
Sounds like you loved your 4th grade teacher, too. Everyone loved my fourth grade teacher. She taught us to craft the most wonderful things! I mean, very nice things to gift our parents. We even wove baskets from reeds she supplied. I'm seventy-three now. You never forget the great teachers. Mine was Mrs. Armantrout.
@@Upstream5402 That is beautiful. What a legacy. I remember doing projects like that in grade school as well. It's a lost art now, with all of the "progressive" technology young people are drowning in at school and ignoring cultural backgrounds.
Terribly sad to me.
God bless you
Fond memories watching Little House on the Prairie.
Thank you for this information. I loved the books, and have followed the controversy about Rose’s contribution, and I’ve read about both of their lives and accomplishments. I appreciated hearing about the correspondence they had with each other and about their relationship.
They only lost their son, their daughter Rose lived to adulthood. It’s in her books.
Her parents lost their infact son, her brother, Freddy. Still, facts need to be correct in bios of any length.
@@SigmaSigmaSigmaJgirland Rose had a baby boy that died as well
@agenaw2877 Thank you. I wonder if the loss of boys was genetic. Laura wrote that Freddy was "never a well baby," and this may have factored into him not being able to recover from the fatal bout of gastroenteritis. (I read gastroenteritis was going around that area the summer he died, but the death register I read didn't list many for gastroenteritis (or "diarrhoea"). I know Baby Manley got sick shortly after birth. Now I am going to read about Rose's family.
I would like more comprehensive LHOTP documentaries because there is so much more to Laura, her family, and her friends/acquaintances.
@@agenaw2877 You might know the answer better than I. Where is Baby Freddy buried? There is so much speculation.
I read several of her books as a young child, starting with Little House In The Big Woods. I still remember parts of it and I'm 72.
I believe Laura and Almanzo met in De Smet not Walnut Grove.
The tv series had Laura in a white wedding dress. The book that talked about her wedding explained why she ended up wearing a black dress. The movie or tv series is very different from her book series telling the happenings of her life. Laura was a very resilient person, start to finish.
Laura didn't wear a white dress on the TV show. It was a grayish/blue dress. Mary wore Ma's dress when she got married.
You should read 'Pioneer Girl'. The original autobiography that Laura wrote, but never got published til after The Little House Books were published. It is VERY different than the Little House Books. After reading it l understood why The Little House Books are in the fiction section of the library and book stores. 😢 l was sad about learning alot about some of the facts.
@jennjeffs4893 Mary never got married.
@@barbaraparker6996Laura said that what she told us in the books was true - but not the whole truth. After reading Pioneer Girl, I can see that’s the truth!
@@DarDeBruinHein Yes l read that in the book 'The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder' by Marta McDowell. Leaving out the fact that a family lived with them during the hard winter, and that it wasn't Pa, but a neighbor that survived the snowbank. Loved the fact that there were 3 girls she used to create Nellie. So BASED was an important word in describing her books. I still love to read them every now and then. Wonderful children's books.
I don't like the title of this video because, aside from being grammatically awkward, their lives did not end in tragedy. They had a fine farm, raised a variety of animals and crops, and built their own house from the materials on the farm. They had one daughter who lived to have at least one child of her own (can't recall for sure). Mother and daughter became writers and won awards for their achievements. Seems like Almanzo died at home, in his sleep, I think Laura died at home, too. Where is the great tragedy?
Rose didn't have any children. The family line ended with Rose.
As someone who loved the show Little House on thhe Prairie growing up, I appreciate this video because I learned some things I dodnt know.. Thanks
Well from the comments it sounds like a lot of it was incorrect
It was kind of half and half. Unfortunately this channel has misinformation in many of its "Hollywood Undercover" stories.
I got the box set for my 8th birthday. They were the first chapter books that were all mine. I'm almost 60 now and I'm still an avid reader.
I loved teaching some of America's history to my kindergarten classes, using "Little House in the Big Woods," and "Little House on the Prairie." The books begin with Laura having the same ages as kindergarten students. My students, both girls and boys, loved the stories that were in the books. We made lap books, projects, and churned our own butter when we watched the pilot movie. My students gained a rich knowledge of pioneer life, increased their listening skills, vocabulary, and a love for American history. I have loved these books since I was a little girl, growing up in the Pennsylvania mountains.
While I did not read Laura's books, I loved the Little House television series. I had no idea that her daughter was so accomplished.
Both women had interesting lives.
The books tell a much different tale. Michael Landon added a lot of stuff that wasn't true. The ingalls never adopted any children. Mary never married or had a child . There was no Adam. No dog Jack. He made up so much. Once you read the books the TV show will almost disgust you.
I still have my Little House on the Prairie books and reading Laura’s life through her words is accurate compared to the tv show.
Thank You , This didn't need the TV show pics , The REAL Photos Are Beautiful
Pa and Ma didn’t go to her wedding. She and Almanzo just went off and got married. Read the book.
I love Laura Ingalls Wilder. I've read all of her books. She and her family were true pioneers...❤❤❤Y
This is very interesting, Thank you!
My grandmother born in 1894 gave me laura Ingram‘s little house books from when I was a little child. I was was born in 1952. I consider her the best way to learn about how it was to live back in that time.And absolutely love her books. Not so hot on Michael Landon’s TV show however
I wish that the Little House on the Prairie series actually followed the books! They didn’t need to add all of the extra stuff that they did, the stories as remembered by Laura and written for children, were plenty interesting enough!
That's what I've always said as well
One if the reasons I didn't watch that much of the TV Show
I read all of the little house books when I was on elementary school and I loved them, when I grew up and had kids my daughter discovered little house on the Prairie on TV and started watching it. I was surprised to see how much she liked it being Gen Z. I didn’t know anything about her daughter Rose but it sounds like she and I would’ve gotten along really well 😊
This show and the Walton's I grew up watching. In the north far from the south and yet it felt like home watching these shows and listening to country music and riding horses at the city state fair. I long to ride on the trails. Wonderful show and TV that gave us a family to grow with, when our family totally fell apart.
Exactly! It feels like having a home to me too. My family was dysfunctional and I loved to watch and read these for that sense of home and faith I needed.
I hope life became more whole as you grew. It isn't easy.
God bless you
Mary had meningitis, not scarlet fever. Laura's first job was not as a teacher. She worked in a hotel kitchen as a child in Burr Oak.
Actually she had what was referred to as Brain fever (Meningoencephalitis) which is a combination of meningitis and encephalitis which also caused her to have a small stroke which mainly affected her face and cause her blindness..
@@agenaw2877 So, she STILL had meningitis. Eyeroll.
I doubt the illness of meningitis was medically recognized at the time Mary became ill. Laura Ingalls Wilder said scarlet fever caused Mary's blindness.
I absolutely love and romanticize her lifestyle! I’ve read the series with my kids twice and have watched all the shows at least once but probably more for most! We homestead and live in a camper on an off grid farm, so I refer to us as “The little camper on the prairie “ lol! 😅❤😊
I loved the Little House on the Prairie TV show. When I found out there were books I started buying them (and reading them) with my allowance. I think I have all of them or close to all of them. I wish I had access to those books now so I could read them again.
They met in SD not Minnesota!! Sir you need to read her biography so you can tell the true story. God bless.
Laura was a relative of mine. Her great grandfather was my ancestor, 9 generations ago.
We are all related
@@breeze8363. No we’re not.
@@Woodman-Spare-that-tree yes we are
You two like to be the "bee in a bonnet," ay? 🤣
That's cool. So her great, great, great, great-grandfather, from the old country? Seems 9 generations is further back than a great-grandfather.
Thankyou for sharing ❤ I grew up watching the TV series and her books in elementary school were part of class read and book reports .so I enjoyed seeing her real life pics and the pics from the series put me exactly on key to your read 📚❤
Laura and Almanso Wilder only lost one child in South Dakota. I think he was around 2 years old when he passsed away. They had a daughter named Rose. Rose became an author too.
No he was still a little baby when he died.
So many mistakes/misinformation in this video. Don't bother watching. If you want a more "adult" version of the Little House series of books, read "Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Biography," Laura's original draft, edited by Pamela Smith Hill, or "Pioneer Girl: The Revised Texts," edited by Nancy Tystad Koupal, which is the latest, revised version. It delves deeper into Laura's life and how she and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, edited Laura's original manuscripts into what eventually became the Little House series. Both are excellent and I even learned a few things I didn't know about Laura's life.
To be fair, there were a lot of real pictures. It's not like photography was common, especially in the early years. A good portion of people were introduced to Laura because of the series.
When I worked in an assisted living home, I read the series to the residents, every other day, from 2 to 3. They had time for a nap first, after lunch. I would give them all a snack and a drink, and I would read, and then I would ask them questions about their life growing up.. It was such a fun time, for me, to learn so much about my lovely oldies but goodies. This was the only activity that I could get almost all the residents involved in. They all loved the books.
That's beautiful and inspiring!
God bless you! ❤
good story!...i often stopped by their little cabin on hwy 60 going to pick up my Son back in the day
My Grandmother started me on the Laura Ingalls books when I was young. By 1974, when the series first aired, I had already read the entire Little House series. I was 11, and so very excited to watch it. Immediately, in the first episode, Mary wasn't blind. I knew right then the show was not going to adhere to the books, I never watched it again. Michael Landon stated that people wouldn't want to see the story as it truly was. He was wrong. I still have my set of books, and as an adult, I have reread them. Since then, I have found very few movies that actually follow the books, it's just the way it goes I suppose.
The books themselves weren't 100% to-the-letter true either. Laura combined some life events to her stories to make sense. Or left out something here and there that she didn't think were necessary. Read her autobiography for the facts.
@ I have, thank you. It was only the one fact , and that was that Mary was blind. I have never seen that disputed anywhere, by anyone, except the television network and Michael Landon.
Most of this video is factual, but there are still several inaccuracies along with that more than one of the photographs shown are NOT Laura and Almonzo. Their wedding ceremony was NOT held in her sister Mary's house, Mary was away at the college for the blind in Vinton, Iowa at the time of their nuptials and never went on to have her own house anyway. After finishing college, she returned to her and Laura's parents' Charles and Caroline's home and lived there til she passed away many years later. Laura and Almonzo's wedding ceremony was held at Reverend Brown's home of the which, he and his wife's adopted daughter Ida Brown was one of Laura's best friends from school. All this and I'm only halfway through the video. And she did not wear a white dress, she wore a black cashmere dress that she and her mother made.
Doubt it was cashmere
@Woodman-Spare-that-tree
Well, that's what Laura wrote that it was in "These Happy Golden Years."
I found the hx of Rose very enlightening...never knew that storyline. She sounds like my kind of lady! "What is this, the gestopo!?" GOOD FOR HER! Descriptive, truthful and hazardous words then and now.
If you’re going to do a video about a real life person, use photos from that person’s life only, not videos of the show that was far removed from reality. The caption is awful, should have been edited before posting the video.
The Little House series have remained as my favorite book series since I was 10, 50 years ago. I introduced it to my daughter and bought her a set of her own because I couldn’t bear to part with my own.
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100% agree. I thought I was going to see real pictures and documentation of her life, not cheesy stock footage, and old 70's tv show clips to fill up the lack of content. It was super disappointing, I couldn't finish it, I'll look around for a better documentary. Hopefully younger viewers who don't know about her will decide to look elsewhere for her interesting story. Her true historical record.
I thought she wore her black dress, pa and ma did not come?
All due respect, the Little House books are also inaccurate.
The original title of “The Long Winter” was “The Hard Winter.’
Laura was pressured to change it, because the publisher thought kids wouldn’t read a book with the word ‘hard’ in the title.
The content of that book is missing the fact that a family of three was living with the Ingalls family.
Laura said in other sources, ‘they didn’t help with any of the work, but they ate our food.’
For an accurate account of her life, read “Pioneer Girl The Annotated Biography.’
All due respect. I learned some things. For those of you who need pictures, well you can’t fix stupid.
I loved reading the books 😊
Thank you!
Imagine tragedy being tragic.
Laura's wedding dress was black cashmere. They wanted to get married quickly before Almonzo's family turned it into a big event that they could not afford. Also, Laura said it was more practical.
A tragedy is tragic!
If Mother and Daughter worked together on the Little House books so what the stories were real.
Interesting fact: through her father’s side, Laura Ingalls Wilder is related to Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Charles Ingalls originally came from New York State, and he was connected to the Delano family, which was where FDR’s mother, Sarah Delano, came from.
Her son died. Her daughter rose lived.
When i was 7yrs old i got a book orders kids often got through school and there was a book being advertised and it was "little house in the big woods" it was for 99¢ and my mom ordered it for me. The day finally arrived when i got the book i was hooked on the book series. When I had my little girl i named her serenity Elizabeth rose. There's 2 people i admired the most when it came to the name Elizabeth queen Elizabeth I she proved in a male dominated era you don't need a man for everything and laura Ingalls Wilder. Laura herself was a true pioneer and the fact she went through hardships most of us can't relate to unless we walked in her shoes. I'm glad rose inspired and encouraged her mom to write about her childhood to her adult years you don't see that anymore when it comes to childhood authors
I was introduced to Laura Ingalls Wilder in 5th grade. My homeroom teacher read, "Little House in the Big Woods". I think it was because the story was being told by a little girl with a big sister. I could relate to that since I had a prettier, smarter big sister, and a younger sister, too. That was.ME.
Laura's wedding dress was brown wool, her best dress at the time. A 'wedding dress' would have been an incalculable luxury that they could not afford.
The entire wedding story IS WRONG! I just listened to the audio version of the books and it was NOT at Mary’s house. Mary was blind and at blind college.
They had the wedding early as Almonsos sister was planning on coming to town and taking over and bringing his Mom. Almonso was farming and couldn’t spend the money or take the time off so they married at the preacher house in the afternoon and yes you are 190% correct on the dress.
WTF is this channel referring to?
Her wedding dress was not brown wool, it was black cashmere. There's a complete description of it in her book These Happy Golden Years.
@@kellyshomemadekitchenYou are so correct. They had to rush the wedding because Eliza Jane and Almanzo’s mom wanted to take over the wedding planning.
@@middlelle exactly!
Thank you all for correcting this!!! That’s wild and I’m sorry the weird cocktail lounge music in the background was an odd choice! It was driving me crazy. Mary was at the Iowa school for the blind. She has a roommate named Blanche. This part wasn’t accurate.
The Little House books are responsible for my love of reading. Every school day after lunch our teachers would read us a chapter from a book. When she read Little House in the Big Woods I fell in love. I had to read them all, and I did, in 3rd grade. The tv series wasn’t done yet so it was up to my imagination. I learned that you can go anywhere and be anyone in between the covers of a book.
The poster obviously is clueless about how many women worked out of the home for paltry wages. Poverty is a great incentive to qork for money
little house on the prairie was and is still one of my favorite shows. I still watch it on Amazon. Too bad Rose never married to carry on the tradition and legacy of her and her mother. Now buried. Maybe it will pass on down our generations and give our children and grandchildren the true reality of what the pioneer days were like and they could learn from that. In the education system the powers that be are working hard to erase the truth of history. Sad people are like that but, glad for people like Laura Wilder and Rose Wilder.
Rose did marry, had a son, who died early. She was divorced and had a remarkable career. She and her son are buried with Laura and Almanzo in Mansfield.
I love “Little House on the Prairie “. And I had scarlet fever as a child. I wear glasses and I am not blind. Even decades later after having scarlet fever, I can still see with glasses. Now, every year, I get checked out for glaucoma.
Her researchers say Mary had some kind of stroke that took her vision.
Mary didn't have scarlet fever that was changed for the books but actually she had what was referred to as Brain fever (Meningoencephalitis) which is a combination of meningitis and encephalitis which also caused her to have a small stroke which mainly affected and paralyzed her face on the left side and cause her blindness.
My mother's parents eloped in DeSmet, they got married at his sister's house and let his mother listen to the wedding ceremony on the phone. This was in the early thirties i think.
Sadly because of Wokism her books are frowned upon because of the wording that is in the books
They're not banning books like the ignorant right
@@wakandaforever4291LMAO..the left is definately banning books..wake up...
@@wakandaforever4291 nobody is banning books, but it is wise to note AGE APPROPRIATENESS when putting books in a school library.
@wakandaforever4291 Pove that the Conservatives like me are banning books
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All people who were pioneers had really, really hard lives. So yes their life was tragic. This titles should be more to the effect of "They had a hard early life but made it out and did well for themselves".
Interesting! Almanzo wilder is in my family tree
Love Laura Ingalls
Ma’s maiden name was Caroline Lake Quiner.
Some of this matches what is in the books, but other information does not. I know she changed some things in the books. From my understanding, Mary didn’t live by herself. She lived with her parents. It would be very unlikely that a single, young, blind girl would live alone in that day and age.
In the book, Laura and Almanzo got married at the parsonage without any of their family members there. She made a BLACK dress because that would be more practical for a married woman to use for other events.
I quit listening at that point since I can’t trust what’s being said.
There is a large volume of Laura’s original manuscript with added explanatory notes available, which is very interesting. That was where I found out some things had been changed to make them more appropriate for children, and even to connect the stories. For example, Nellie Olsen was not Laura’s only nemesis, but she kept the name Nellie for another girl who caused her trouble. That made more sense to me, since it would seem very unlikely that two families would follow the same trail, stopping at the same towns along the way.
I recommend the actual books, especially the original manuscript book to fill in a lot of the blanks. Forget listening to people who don’t know what they’re talking about.
Does the original manuscript have a certain name I can look up online to buy? Also she changed it in the books and said Mary went blind because of scarlet fever when Actually she had what was referred to as Brain fever (Meningoencephalitis) which is a combination of meningitis and encephalitis which also caused her to have a small stroke which mainly affected and paralyzed the left side of her face and cause her blindness.
There is no proof that their house fire was caused by Rose. Rose was convinced this was the case, and didn't confess until she and Laura were both quite elderly, although she was haunted by it her whole life. She was shocked to find that her mother did not for a moment believe her child set the house on fire, and laid no blame at her feet. Rose spent her life driven to make sure to take care of her parents; she felt a powerful need to make sure they always had a home and whatever they needed, although they could take care of themselves quite well. She was haunted by the guilt of depriving her parents of a home they treasured, and she was convinced she had destroyed. She was only a toddler of three; what she swears happened and what really happened will never truly be known.
I devoured the books about 40 years ago. They were totally enchanting! However, the TV series was disappointingly UN-like the books. I live in northwest Arkansas, not far from Laura's home near Mansfield Missouri. It has been preserved as a Historical Site. I passed by it once, but for various reasons we couldn't stop for a visit. Has anybody else noticed how much the actor that portrayed Almanzo Wilder looked like James Arness? (Marshal Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke")
I agree. Can’t stand the TV series. I’ll stick to Laura’s books ❤
I'm enjoying reading everyone's comments. It’s beautiful to see so many people loving Laura and her family as much as I do.
It’s also fun - a competition of who learned more facts than the next fan. 😃🕊🎉 They could've added these to the Jeopardy game show, "Alex, I'll take Little House for $500." 😂
Laura did NOT wear a white wedding dress. In the books ,she and ma made her dress out of a black velvety material. The fire that destroyed their house was accidentally set by Laura, NOT Rose!
Apparently, much of the books were written by her daughter, Rose. If you find her biography, you'll see her life was quite different from the books, much harsher, among other things.
Wow, thats so sad. ⚘💕
Pronounce his name correctly: Al MAN Zo. This from Dean Butler himself. In an interview, he said they were getting the name wrong throughout the entire series.
What's tragic? they had a wonderful life together (No Hollywd.)! I loved her books, growing up; still remember the descriptions of food, dinner; it was a good homelife that included faith in God.
The narrator said her wedding dress was white. The photo shows her in black.
Everything it makes me dream about her life and make me a maze how much accomplished
I also grow up watching little house on the prairie
My great grandpatrents moved to ND in the late 1800s to grow wheat. That is what they farmed in Germany. My grandmother died in the 1818 flu epidemic in December of 1818, her 5 siblings also died of this days apart.
My ex husband and now my son are related to Laura so this was a cool story to listen to
We sure don’t get the crazy amounts of snow in WI like she did back then.