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Pioneer Spirit and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Family

Pioneer Spirit and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Family

Jennifer Van Haaften, Assistant Director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, discusses how the lives of Laura Ingalls Wilder's pioneer family was portrayed in her novels and presents a more complex image of what it was like to live on the prairie during the late nineteenth century.

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