From Little House on the Prairie's Facebook Page:Today is the release date for the new book, "Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls
Wilder." The book is a publication of the Pioneer Girl Project, which is a research and publishing program of the South Dakota State Historical Society. 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.
Pick up your copy today!
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Wilder (1867 1957) finished her autobiography, Pioneer Girl, in 1930 when she was sixty-three years old. Throughout the 1930s and into the early 1940s, she drew upon her original manuscript to write a successful series of books for young readers.
Wilder s vision of life on the American frontier in the last half of the nineteenth century continues to draw new generations of readers to her Little House books. Editor Nancy Tystad Koupal has collected essays from noted scholars of
Wilder s life and work that explore the themes and genesis of
Wilder s writings. Pioneer Girl Perspectives sheds new light on the story behind
Wilder s original manuscript and examines the ways in which the author and her daughter and editor, Rose
Wilder Lane, worked to develop a marketable narrative. The essay contributors delve into the myths and realities of
Wilder s work to discover the real lives of frontier children, the influence of time and place on both
Wilder and Lane, and the role of folklore in the Little House novels. Together, the essays give readers a deeper understanding of how
Wilder built and managed her story. 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.'