Pioneer girl pdf
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Pioneer Girl
Mary Jo Shankle’s Little House books (I had the same set and bet you did too!)
Everything I know about pioneers I learned from Little House on the Prairie. Or at least everything I remember. The Little House series and theshow mix and mingle in my mind, leaving a deep impression of pioneer struggles (the grasshoppers!), pioneer heartiness (Pa with the ax), pioneer weather (freezing cold or scorching hot), pioneer style (bonnets and britches) and pioneer evil (Nellie).
I thought I was a serious fan until I saw the notes my friend Mary Jo Shankle had made in her childhood copies of the series:
You may recall that Laura Ingalls’ Wilder’s Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiographywas published last year with great fanfare. To summarize how this came to be: During 1929 and 1930, while in her early sixties, Laura wrote Pioneer Girl based on her family’s experience in “Indian Territory” from 1869 through 1888. She wrote it as a mature adult for an adult audience. Her daughter Rose Wilder Lane submitted her mother’s manuscript to a publisher in 19
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The Pioneer Girl Project
In the fall of 2010, when I was director of the South Dakota Historical Society (SDHS) Press and negotiating for the right to publish Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiography under the title Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, I optimistically told our marketing director that I hoped it might eventually sell 30,000 copies. He scoffed at the idea, considering it absurd. I cited the Mark Twain autobiography from the University of California Press that was doing so well—about 45,000 copies at that point and counting. Yeah, he retorted, but Twain was an American classic; Wilder was a regional children’s author. Maybe we could sell 10,000, he conceded. As it turns out, we were both wrong! Ten years later, SDHS Press has published three additional Pioneer Girl-related books and sold 200,000 copies of the original title. The Press has, in short, exceeded its wildest expectations.
Let me give you a little context. As a not-for-profit, scholarly publisher, SDHS Press typically printed about 1,000 copies of any book, with the exception of its children’s t
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Pioneer Girl: An Annotated Edition
Description
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiography available in print. This annotated edition, published with the approval of the Little House Heritage Trust, is a must have for any fan of the Little House books, and finally brings Wilder’s hidden writing to the public.
Pioneer Girl follows the Ingalls family’s journey through Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, back to Minnesota, and on to Dakota Territory sixteen years of travels, unforgettable experiences, and the everyday people who became immortal through Wilder’s fiction. Using additional manuscripts, letters, photographs, newspapers, and other sources, award-winning Wilder biographer Pamela Smith Hill adds valuable context and leads readers through Wilder’s growth as a writer. Do you think you know Laura? Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography will re-introduce you to the woman who defined the pioneer experience for millions.
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