Tag: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Melissa Gilbert’s lost bid for Congress and the forgotten political history of ‘Little House on the Prairie.’

So the Great Depression runs through Little House in the Big Woods like a big three-hearted river. Perhaps most striking, however, is that the book’s central theme is made most conspicuous not through the events and details described in its pages but by the things that aren’t there. There’s no Depression in the Big Woods. […]