William E. Foley

John E. Miller

Draws on the children's author's unpublished autobiography, letters, and newspaper stories to complete the story begun in her autobiographical novels

The Woman Behind the Legend

Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder

Robert W. Smith

Robert C. Johnson

A. W. Deurbrouck

James S. Browning

William W. Weller

R. L. Fischer

Charles B. Kenahan

John K. Alley

Dennis V. D'Andrea

Arthur R. Taylor

W. E. Anable

David E. Fogelson

Robert L. Bolmer

David Schlain

John P. Carter

Robert Lynn Crosby

Thomas A. Morgan

Arnold B. Hubbard

Alla D. Mah

Gerald E. Rennick

J. D. Spagnola

Norman G. Foster

Robert C. Ellman

A. J. Carroll

Edwin B. Cook

John W. Belter

K. A. Fowler

Paul E. Bennett

Robert A. Beall

Robert L. Rough

T. Estelle Gardner

William G. Fischer

Donald Eckhart Emerson

Leroy Dockter

William J. Sturgis

Strain and deformation measurement. 2

Stresses Induced Around Mine Development Workings by Undercutting and Caving, Climax Molybdenum Mining, Colorado (in Two Parts).

Governor Philip F. La Follette, the Wisconsin Progressives, and the New Deal

The mother-daughter partnership that produced the Little House books has fascinated scholars and readers alike. Now, John E. Miller, one of America’s leading authorities on Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane, combines analyses of both women to explore this collaborative process and shows how their books reflect the authors’ distinctive views of place, time, and culture. Along the way, he addresses the two most controversial issues for Wilder/Lane aficionados: how much did Lane actually contribute to the writing of the Little House books, and what was Wilder’s real attitude toward American Indians. Interpreting these writers in their larger historical and cultural contexts, Miller reconsiders their formidable artistic, political, and literary contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s. He looks at what was happening in 1932—from depression conditions and politics to chain stores and celebrity culture—to shed light on Wilder’s life, and he shows how actual “little houses” established ideas of home that resonated emotionally for both writers. In considering each woman’s ties to history, Miller compares Wilder with Frederick Jackson Turner as a frontier mythmaker and examines Lane’s unpublished history of Missouri in the context of a contemporaneous project, Thomas Hart Benton’s famous Jefferson City mural. He also looks at Wilder’s Missouri Ruralist columns to assess her pre–Little House values and writing skills, and he readdresses her literary treatment of Native Americans. A final chapter shows how Wilder’s and Lane’s conservative political views found expression in their work, separating Lane’s more libertarian bent from Wilder’s focus on writing moralist children’s fiction. These nine thoughtful essays expand the critical discussion on Wilder and Lane beyond the Little House. Miller portrays them as impassioned and dedicated writers who were deeply involved in the historical changes and political challenges of their times—and contends that questions over the books’ authorship do not do justice to either woman’s creative investment in the series. Miller demystifies the aura of nostalgia that often prevents modern readers from seeing Wilder as a real-life woman, and he depicts Lane as a kindred artistic spirit, helping readers better understand mother and daughter as both women and authors.

Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture

Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane

Porter M. Kier

HENDLE GORDON

David L. Pawson

Echinoderms, the star fish skeletons that beachcombers collect, are brilliantly colored and intricately ornamented creatures in their natural habitat. This reference features over 130 color photographs of five classes of echinoderms (sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, feather stars, and sea cucu

SEA STARS SEA URCHINS ALLIES

Lowell Stroud

Supercompressibility Factors for Helium-nitrogen Mixtures

William Jefferson Boone

Will E. DeVaney

Exell Gas

Low-temperature Phase Equilibria of Helium-bearing Natural Gases

Charles W. Huggins

John Burlin Johnson

Willis A. Calhoun

T. E. Hill

Willard L. Hunter

Lloyd Harold Banning

Sarkis G. Ampian

Robert Wayne Van Dolah

Kenneth E. Tame

Joseph S. Malesky

Philip Edward Niebuhr

Scott Wike Hazen (Jr.)

Edward Gerard King

J. G. Haymes

J. Vance Batty

John J. Mulligan

Max Richard Geer

Robert S. Warfield

Willmar T. Benson

Adolph M. Poston

Albert Ollar

Allan Hamilton Macmillan

Charles F. Johnson

Espiridion G. Valdez

F. D. Fennessy

Richard D. Berkenkotter

Harold L. Gibbs

Joe B. Rosenbaum

Evidence is accumulating that democracy is under siege--in the United States and around the world. This volume identifies and explains a dozen separate challenges threatening American democracy today. Sorting these challenges into political and social-cultural problems, each is placed in an historical context to describe how they work together to undermine the democratic underpinnings of the nation. Opening with a sketch of the historical development of democracy, this book makes the case for improved civic education, rebuilding trust in institutions and leaders, promoting good character and the revitalization of the healthy community. A renewed commitment to governmental institutions is necessary for the people to fulfill democracy's promise.

Twelve Threats to the American Ideal and How We Can Overcome Them

Democracy's Troubles

Governor Philip F. La Follette, the Wisconsin Progressives and the New Deal, 1930-1939

L. B. Pankratz

Kathleen Hazen

Raymond L. Carpenter

Aldo L. Furno

Arden D. Fugate

Daniel Bienstock

George Stanley Scott

Howard W. Kilau

Kenneth G. Broadhead

Kenneth Keith Kelley

Martin H. Stanczyk

Paul A. Wasson

Pete Remo Tisot

Richard F. Zaffarano

Wallace Woods Agey

Albert J. Forney

Carl Rampacek

Cecil Q. Cupps

Clarence Warren Houck

George H. Martindill

Howard H. Heady

John Paul Hansen

John S. Murray

Lanford H. Adami

Robert K. Koch

Roy T. Sorenson

W. I. R. Murphy

William H. Eddy

Donald W. Frommer

Edward G. King

J. Fry

Joseph H. Field

Michael George Zabetakis

Thomas David Roberts

Thomas L. McVay

Unusual Saturation-pressure Variations

Reservoir Oil Characteristics, Greater Aneth Area, Utah

Drawing links between the experiences of the Ingalls family as described in the Little House series with events of the times, a study indicates its historically accurate portrayal of life on the nineteenth-century agricultural frontier.

Where History and Literature Meet

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Town

Although generations of readers of the Little House books are familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s early life up through her first years of marriage to Almanzo Wilder, few know about her adult years. Going beyond previous studies, Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder focuses upon Wilder’s years in Missouri from 1894 to 1957. Utilizing her unpublished autobiography, letters, newspaper stories, and other documentary evidence, John E. Miller fills the gaps in Wilder’s autobiographical novels and describes her sixty-three years of living in Mansfield, Missouri. As a result, the process of personal development that culminated in Wilder’s writing of the novels that secured her reputation as one of America’s most popular children’s authors becomes evident.

The Woman behind the Legend

John E. Miller

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