Little Libertarians on the Prairie

Little Libertarians on the Prairie

Illustration by Boris Kulikov for the Boston Globe The Boston Globe, August 11, 2013 A few months after the stock market crash, in the winter of 1930, Laura Ingalls Wilder sat at a small desk in Mansfield, Mo., and began writing down her life story in pencil. She had...
Getting ready to find new ideas

Getting ready to find new ideas

Rock wall, Black Trail, Canfield Woods, Deep River, CT My best ideas for writing come when I carry no pen, pad, or recorder. I trudge up a muddy hill. I pick up a branch that fell in the path and fling it off into the leaves. The mud smells like minerals. I’m...
Laura Ingalls Wilder died on this day in 1957

Laura Ingalls Wilder died on this day in 1957

Laura signs copies of her books at Brown’s Bookstore in Springfield, Missouri, October 1952. As far as I know, this photo is not copyrighted but was a publicity shot for a newspaper. A few days ago, on February 7, the world—that is, Google, and Laura Ingalls...

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s birthday

Today’s Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 148th birthday, and Google’s Doodle took note. Americans are thinking about the pioneer author, and I know the time is ripening for my next book, Libertarians on the Prairie: The Creation of a Pioneer Myth, which I hope...