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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh, I’m not happy about this.

Look, I loved the books as a kid. They’re great fantasy.

But the actual history behind the books is absolutely twisted. Laura’s daughter, Rose, was a huge libertarian/individualist (along with being anti-Semitic) and heavily edited the books to match her political beliefs.

From what I remember, Pa was a drunk and left his family so destitute they received public aid along with aid from their neighbors, or else they would have starved. He dragged them around so much to escape debts he owed. Laura was worried she would be sold into servitude.

Prairie life was also absolutely horrific. Prairie madness, abuse, and death was common.

But this series is just most political indoctrination into the whole “America was great!” BS that men were men, women were women, families were happy, people pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, and we need to get back to those times.[/quote]

There is so much erong eith this post, the first one is judging history through a post 2020 grieved over everything anti American victim lens. [/quote]

The books make it clear that pioneer life was no picnic— remember the family she boards with as a young teacher (young as in 15) and the extremely depressed wife jumps on her husband with a knife in the night, while Laura is feet away?

The book does gloss over why Laura has her “jobs” though. [/quote]

Maybe Laura needed the money BUT...she was obviously very smart.  And, her eventual sister-in-law was also a frontier teacher and even taught Laura (and Laura was a brat to her, which is kind of funny).

I have lots of female teachers in my family...so to me this was "The Only White-Collar Job Available to Women of the Prairie"...not a cover-up for the Ingalls' poverty.

Google AI says..

"Eliza Jane Wilder, older sister of Almanzo Wilder, taught 13-year-old Laura Ingalls in Dakota Territory during the fall of 1881. Their relationship was notoriously strained. Laura portrayed Eliza Jane as a bossy and ineffective teacher in Little Town on the Prairie, and they frequently clashed.

A detailed look at their dynamic and how it was depicted in the books:The Teaching Stint: In the fall following the Hard Winter, Eliza Jane was employed to teach the school term in De Smet, Dakota Territory. Laura Ingalls and her younger sister, Carrie, were among her students.

Book vs. Reality: In the Little House on the Prairie series, Eliza Jane is depicted as a strict, slightly shallow, and somewhat incompetent teacher who struggled to maintain order. In reality, while Laura did find her difficult, Eliza Jane was a highly educated and fiercely independent woman who successfully filed and operated a homestead claim.

Later Relationship: Despite their intense clashes during Laura's youth, the two women eventually reconciled somewhat as they grew older. When Laura and Almanzo's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, was seeking better high school opportunities, they allowed her to live with Eliza Jane in Crowley, Louisiana. Eliza Jane served as a significant mentor to Rose, who admired her aunt's independence and forward-thinking views."[/quote]

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