The Little House on the Prairie of Laura Ingalls Wilder

[PAF]

By Wendy McElroy
The Future of Freedom Foundation
April 2, 2019

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In 1943, Lane published The Discovery of Freedom: Man’s Struggle against Authority, which deeply affected 20th-century libertarianism. 1943 was also the year in which the last book in the Little House series appeared. The two endeavors had much in common politically. Both celebrated individualism, for example, and they displayed a corresponding suspicion of authority.

In real life, Wilder and Lane came to share a deep political connection through their mutual rejection of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies. In her book Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books, Christine Woodside explained, “They both hated the New Deal. They thought the government was interfering in people’s lives, that individuals during the Depression were becoming very whiny and weren’t grabbing hold of their courage. The climate of America was really irritating them. The New Deal, for a lot of farmers and definitely the Wilders, made them change their politics.” Many farmers were outraged by government agents who visited farms, like the one Wilder then lived on, and forced them to document how many acres they had planted in case they were over the government-enforced maximum. A lifelong Democrat, Wilder changed her affiliation and infused her book with libertarian political views, albeit ones that were expressed indirectly.

Continue:

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/04...house-on-the-prairie-of-laura-ingalls-wilder/

 

[Anti Federalist]

“They both hated the New Deal. They thought the government was interfering in people’s lives, that individuals during the Depression were becoming very whiny and weren’t grabbing hold of their courage. The climate of America was really irritating them. The New Deal, for a lot of farmers and definitely the Wilders, made them change their politics.”

Which, of course explains why she must be purged from the public square as a vile and unrepentant racist.

Laura Ingalls Wilder removed from book award over racist language

 

[euphemia]

In one of the books, maybe Little Town on the Prairie, they go to an Independence Day celebration in town. Laura has been pondering the concept of freedom. She sees her dad, and she thinks about how he lived life. Nobody had to manage Pa. He managed himself. That was freedom.

For all you manly men, please read through this series. Pa is not the Michael Landon type you saw on TV. He was athletic and resourceful. He loved his wife and girls, and he provided well for them by his own ingenuity. I think most of you would enjoy him very much.

 

[Origanalist]

By Wendy McElroy
The Future of Freedom Foundation
April 2, 2019

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In 1943, Lane published The Discovery of Freedom: Man’s Struggle against Authority, which deeply affected 20th-century libertarianism. 1943 was also the year in which the last book in the Little House series appeared. The two endeavors had much in common politically. Both celebrated individualism, for example, and they displayed a corresponding suspicion of authority.

In real life, Wilder and Lane came to share a deep political connection through their mutual rejection of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies. In her book Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books, Christine Woodside explained, “They both hated the New Deal. They thought the government was interfering in people’s lives, that individuals during the Depression were becoming very whiny and weren’t grabbing hold of their courage. The climate of America was really irritating them. The New Deal, for a lot of farmers and definitely the Wilders, made them change their politics.” Many farmers were outraged by government agents who visited farms, like the one Wilder then lived on, and forced them to document how many acres they had planted in case they were over the government-enforced maximum. A lifelong Democrat, Wilder changed her affiliation and infused her book with libertarian political views, albeit ones that were expressed indirectly.

Continue:

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/04...house-on-the-prairie-of-laura-ingalls-wilder/

Good stuff, I didn't know any of this. Thanks for posting.

 

[tod evans]

In one of the books, maybe Little Town on the Prairie, they go to an Independence Day celebration in town. Laura has been pondering the concept of freedom. She sees her dad, and she thinks about how he lived life. Nobody had to manage Pa. He managed himself. That was freedom.

For all you manly men, please read through this series. Pa is not the Michael Landon type you saw on TV. He was athletic and resourceful. He loved his wife and girls, and he provided well for them by his own ingenuity. I think most of you would enjoy him very much.

I've read the books twice before I was a teen, well worth the time.

 

[Anti Federalist]

In one of the books, maybe Little Town on the Prairie, they go to an Independence Day celebration in town. Laura has been pondering the concept of freedom. She sees her dad, and she thinks about how he lived life. Nobody had to manage Pa. He managed himself. That was freedom.

For all you manly men, please read through this series. Pa is not the Michael Landon type you saw on TV. He was athletic and resourceful. He loved his wife and girls, and he provided well for them by his own ingenuity. I think most of you would enjoy him very much.

I had the whole set when I was a boy.

Read them cover to cover many times.

Funny you should mention that, I just happened to pick up "Farmer Boy" which was the story of Wilder's future husband, Alanzo, as a young boy growing up on his father's farm in New York state, just the other day to read again.

There was a part of the book that described how the one room schoolhouse "traveling teacher", Mr Course, was being threatened by a gang of young tough teenagers, and how they had beat the previous teacher so badly that he later died, and that this teacher was a friend of Course.

When they attacked him, he horse whipped them all, using Alanzo's father's whip which he had given him the night before.

Imagine that in a screwl today.