Pioneer Girl

This is one of the newest books at the library. This is the first book that Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote. It was intended for an adult audience, but never published until now. Life for the Ingalls family was not easy. Much of her story will be familiar if you have read her children’s books. However, you will also read wild tales of pioneer life like their neighbor who came home drunk, drug his wife around the room, by her long hair, with one hand and carried a flaming lamp bottom side up with the other hand. Later you read about the Bender family who ran a roadhouse and would murder visitors with an ax when they came to stay. Come check it out and learn about how real pioneers lived.