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Land of Laura is the irreverent yet scholarly podcast about all things Laura Ingalls Wilder. The podcast offers Little House and Laura Ingalls Wilder fans insight from authors, historians, researchers, museum professionals — anyone who has something to contribute to the Laura…
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Join the Land of Laura Patreon (opens the original)
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Land of Laura, the podcast about all things Laura Ingalls Wilder, is launching a Patreon. Joining the Land of Laura Patreon community helps support the podcast we all love. With levels ranging from free to however much you want to pay, every member can decide their own level of support. www.patreon.com/landoflaura
Inside Rocky Ridge Farm: Interview with Michelle Underwood (opens the original)
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Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in Mansfield, Missouri from 1894 until her death in 1957. Today, the farmhouse she and her husband, Almanzo, built, as well as the stone cottage known as the Rock House that their daughter Rose Wilder Lane designed and had built for them, are all part of the homesite in Mansfield. Collectively, the homesite is known by the name Laura gave it: Rocky Ridge Farm. Visitors to Rocky Ridge can tour the farmhouse, the Rock House, and a museum that houses an impressive collect
Libertarians on the Prairie — A Talk with Biographer Christine Woodside (opens the original)
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Eddie Higgins, a researcher and friend of the Land of Laura podcast, interviews journalist and professor Christine Woodside. When Woodside set out to write a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, she couldn't help but keep coming back to politics. Wilder's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, who was a silent collaborator in shaping the Little House book series, is considered along with Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson to be one of the founding godmothers of libertarianism. Woodside's resulting 2016 biography,
Rose Wilder Lane as a Cartoon — artist and writer Peter Bagge talks about Credo, his graphic biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter (opens the original)
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Peter Bagge has written graphic novels/biographies about three free-thinking, independent women living in the early to mid-twentieth century: birth control advocate Margaret Sanger, African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston ... and Rose Wilder Lane. Peter describes the release of his book on Rose Wilder Lane,called CREDO, with one word: crickets. It just didn’t sell well. Even Land of Laura host Sandra Hume had dismissed the title at first, not quite absorbing that it was a biography about Rose
Understanding the Assignment: Netflix's Little House on the Prairie (opens the original)
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We've all been anticipating the launch of the first season of the 2026 version of Little House on the Prairie on Netflix. Was it going to be like the 1970s Michael Landon show? Would it adhere closely to the book series, or would it deviate? How would they depict the Osage Native Americans? What would be added — or subtracted — to complete their vision? Land of Laura invited Laura Ingalls Wilder biographer Pamela Smith Hill along with The Wilder Life author Wendy McClure to come to the studio an
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