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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think PPs are overly harsh on Almanzo who was severely disabled from a bout with diptheria and yet ultimately does make a successful life for his family in Missouri. He also allows his wife to work as a journalist and a bank loan officer and ultimately to publish books (even though during much of her work life, they don't desperately need her income), which was pretty uncommon in those days. They raise a feminist libertarian daughter. I think Almanzo was actually pretty progressive for the time.[/quote]

Agree, it's hard to understand attacks on Almanzo. There is a transcript of Rose Wilder Lane interviewing her father in which he states that his life had mostly been disappointments. He was crippled by diphtheria at age 29 and walked with a cane for the rest of his life. He lost everything in South Dakota.

It could not have been easy for a disabled man who knew only farming to take care of his family back then. He and Laura were true partners--they had to be. And he appears to have doted on her.[/quote]

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