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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was living with my family on the freezing cold plains of South Dakota.  We had no money due to farming misfortunes and my father's unrealistic choices, but we were happy and loving.   One particularly cold winter, the whole town began to run out of food and then a good-looking young man from a prosperous out-of-state farming family made a daring grocery run and saved our town.

After that, he gave me some rides on his buggy, but he was going on rides with another girl too.  I told him he had to choose one or the other, so he chose me.  I think he liked that I had some backbone!  [/quote]

You did! And you sealed the deal before SD even became a state. Guess your future DH was rich by SD Territory standards. In any case you did great and just wait until your Ayn Rand-y daughter sells the rights to your story and capitalizes TF out of it. You won't see much of THAT, though.[/quote]

Who is this one? [/quote]

Laura Ingalls Wilder.  Her husband lost it all in SD.  They moved to Arkansas to start again.  Things didn't go well.  His parents bought them a house before loosing everything they had (they sold the farm when they got old and invested in rice which didn't do well).  But Almanzo was "old money" for the frontier and Rose definitely made bank on her mom's story.[/quote]

Go back and read Farmer Boy-- the Wilders were rich AF when he was a kid!  They raised high-end horses, owned a huge parcel of land, sat in the biggest church pew (you had to rent those) and ate pie three meals a day.  Things didn't go great for Almanzo due to his medical issues, but he was a very promising young man from a wealthy family at the time she married him.  [/quote]

I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with. I agree the Wilders were rich when Almanzo was a kid, and even later when he was an adult.  I don't recall if the book addresses how far back the money came from.  Things didn't go well for Almanzo in SD due to weather, bad luck (their house accidentally burned down - that sucked), and mortgages (crazy high interest compared to what we see today).  They lost the houses and land in SD.  That's what I meant by they lost everything [b]Almanzo[/b] had. I guess they did have $100 (a decent amount back then) which they took to Arkansas to start over on.  I thought Almanzo's medical issues came up only in Arkansas and it was Laura who had medical issues in SD (does it really matter?).  The medical issues are why Almanzo's parents bought a house for him and Laura in Arkansas.  [/quote]

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