The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie (repost)
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie By Wendy McClure
Publisher: Rive rhe ad Hard cover 2011 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 1594487804 | EPUB | 0.4 MB
Publisher: Rive rhe ad Hard cover 2011 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 1594487804 | EPUB | 0.4 MB
Obsessed with Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House books about an 1880s pioneer family, children's book editor and memoirist McClure (I'm Not the New Me) attempts to recapture her childhood vision of "Laura World." Her wacky quest includes hand-grinding wheat for bread, buying an authentic churn, and traveling to sites where the Ingalls family attempted to wrest a living from the prairie. Discovering that butter she churned herself was "just butter," McClure admits she "felt like a genius and a complete idiot at the same time." Viewing a one-room dugout the Ingallses occupied that was "smaller than a freight elevator" prompted McClure to admit that "the actual past and the Little House world had different properties.