Pioneer Girl

• Author : Bich Minh Nguyen
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 06 February 2014

From an award-winning author, a novel about a Vietnamese American family’s ties to The Little House on the Prairie Jobless with a PhD, Lee Lien returns home to her Chicago suburb from grad school, only to find herself contending with issues she’s evaded since college. But when her brother disappears, he leaves behind an object from their mother’s Vietnam past that stirs up a forgotten childhood dream: a gold-leaf brooch, abandoned by an American reporter in Saigon

• Author : William Anderson
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release : 02 February 2000

The pioneer spirit lives on... Readers around the world know and love Laura, the little girl born in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and raised in covered wagons and on wide open prairies. Now Little House fans can learn more about "Half-pint" in this, the first picture book biography book of Laura Ingalls Wilder. With a simple, glowing text by noted historian and Little House scholar William Anderson, and glorious paintings by Dan Andreasen, Pioneer Girl is a very special

• Author : Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 09 August 2022

"A side-by-side textual comparison of the three surviving typescript revisions of "Pioneer Girl" that uses the texts themselves to draw inferences about Laura Ingalls Wilder's authorial and Rose Wilder Lane's editorial processes and intentions, as well as about the working relationship between the two women during their attempts to market "Pioneer Girl" as adult nonfiction, prior to the publication of Wilder's Little House novels that are based on these original manuscripts"--

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• Release : 01 September 2009

Describes the early childhood and life of Grace Snyder, whose family owned a Nebraska homestead in the late nineteenth century and endured the hardships and dangers of the prairie.

• Author : Nancy Tystad Koupal
• Publisher : South Dakota State Historical Society Press
• Release : 01 May 2016

Published over eighty years after its inception, "Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography" edited by Pamela Smith Hill gave readers new insight into the truth behind Wilder's fiction. "Pioneer Girl Perspectives" further demonstrates the importance of Wilder as an influential American author whose stories of growing up on the frontier remain relevant today.

• Author : William Holtz
• Publisher : University of Missouri Press
• Release : 09 August 1995

A biography of Rose Wilder Lane, ghostwriter of her mother's "Little House" books and a journalist.

• Author : William Anderson
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release : 25 October 2016

Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books chronicle her childhood in the late 1800s on the American frontier. Now readers can learn about the real Laura, including events she did not write about in her classic stories, in this engaging and accessible chapter-book biography.

• Author : Mary Alice Downie,Barbara Robertson,Elizabeth Jane Errington,Maryanne Caswell
• Publisher : Dundurn
• Release : 18 October 2015

This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun

• Author : Pamela Smith Hill
• Publisher : South Dakota State Hist Society
• Release : 09 August 2022

"[E]xamines Wilder's tumultuous, but ultimately successful, professional and personal relationship with her daughter-the hidden editor-Rose Wilder Lane.

• Author : Wendy McClure
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 01 April 2012

The author of I'm Not the New Me irreverently retraces the pioneer journeys of the Ingalls family as depicted in the famous Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, identifying its fictional and factual aspects while visiting the historical sites where young Laura grew up. Reprint.

• Author : Megan Stine
• Publisher : Gareth Stevens Pub
• Release : 09 August 1996

A biography of the writer whose pioneer life on the American prairie became the basis for her "Little House" books.

• Author : Mary Mann Hamilton
• Publisher : Little, Brown
• Release : 12 July 2016

The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family, and make a home in the early American South. Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta. The result is this astonishing first-person account of a pioneer woman who braved grueling work, profound tragedy, and a pitiless wilderness (she and her family faced floods, tornadoes, fires, bears, panthers, and snakes) to protect

• Author : Stephen W. Hines
• Publisher : WaterBrook
• Release : 09 August 2022

The beloved author of the Little House books was not only one of America's great pioneer storytellers but a woman of vibrant faith. This edition provides the first extended, in depth discussion of the Christian faith of one of America's most beloved pioneer women--Laura Ingalls Wilder.lder.

• Author : Tina Basich,Kathleen Gasperini
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release : 24 May 2011

When Tina Basich grabbed her rented snowboard and headed to the mountains in Lake Tahoe, snowboarding wasn't even considered a sport . . . yet. It was the beginning, and could have easily gone the way of many other sports and become dominated by male-driven competition. But not with Tina on the scene . . . Comments like "You're pretty good . . . for a girl" only pushed her harder to be the best and to prove she was more than just a token player on the slopes.

• Author : Dorothy Kupcha Leland
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 09 August 1995

Presents the fictionalized account of a young girl who left Iowa with her family in 1858, facing hardships as they traveled to California along the Santa Fe Trail and the Beale Wagon Road.