In the Media
Here you will see news articles, websites, blogs, videos, and other or historical related information about Laura from all over the internet.
For media inquiries, questions about the conference, please contact us.
Do you know of a Laura related website or video? Submit it below for review to be included on this page!
*News article, blog, content, or website must NOT be behind a paywall or otherwise they will not be considered for submission.
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
An unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas of the frontier and self-reliance. A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65, Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed her frontier childhood into the best-selling “Little House” series.
~PBS American Masters~
A “Little House” adulthood: How the books changed when I grew up
I remember when I first figured out the girl in the “Little House” books was the same person who wrote the books. I was eight and was reading “On the Banks of Plum Creek.” Laura Ingalls, the girl in the book, was about my age. I looked at the cover, at Laura frolicking barefoot in the prairie grass, and then I studied the author’s name on the cover: Laura Ingalls Wilder. The same girl, I realized, but grown up.
~PBS American Masters~
LauraPalooza, Julyy 7-10, 2019
I am just back from my first-ever LauraPalooza, sponsored by the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association (LIWLRA) and held this year in Onalaska, Wisconsin, just over an hour away from Pepin, Wisconsin. The people involved in planning and implementing the conference, including but not limited to LIWLRA president Barbara Mayes Boustead, vice-president Patti Collins, and conference co-chairs Karen Pearce and Melanie Stringer, did an outstanding job.
~PBS American Masters~
How would Laura Ingalls Wilder describe this year’s winter?
How would Laura Ingalls Wilder describe the winter of 1880-81, when blizzard after blizzard pounded the settlement town of DeSmet, in what was then Dakota Territory. National Weather Service meteorologist and climatologist Barbara Mayes Boustead joins us to put that long, difficult winter into perspective.
~Michigan Public NPR~
True Stories Of The Real ‘Pioneer Girl’
A big new look at the legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the woman behind the Little House.
~WBUR Boston NPR~
Not for kids – in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s ‘Pioneer Girl’ autobiography
Laura Ingalls Wilder is known for the “Little House” series, based her family’s journey across the American plains. But until now, Wilder’s autobiography, “Pioneer Girl,” has never been published. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Pamela Smith Hill, author of “Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life,” on the details Wilder saved for her more mature account.
~PBS NEWS~
What’s it like to attend “Laurapalooza,” the conference for Laura Ingalls Wilder superfans (“bonnetheads”)?
The first time I stepped onto Ingalls Homestead in De Smet, South Dakota, the same plot of land Charles Ingalls farmed in the 1880s, a single thought overwhelmed me: Laura was here.
~PBS American Masters~
The other palooza
Like most American girls, I’d been weaned from picture books straight to the “Little House on the Prairie” TV series. Laura, Mary, baby Carrie —
~Chicago Tribune~
On the trail of Laura Ingalls Wilder
A mother and her sons take their passion for “Little House” books on the road.
~Smithsonian magazine~
The Science of ‘Little House on the Prairie’
A mutual passion for Laura Ingalls Wilder inspired scientists in unrelated disciplines to investigate events from the famous author’s world
~The Minnesota Star Tribune~
From Maryland to Missouri
An Osher Member Celebrates Laura Ingalls Wilder
~The ENGAGE TU~
Where the Wilder things are: The Laura Ingalls Wilder road trip
The Ingalls family’s adventures across the Midwest are among the best-known journeys in American history, right up there with the Oregon Trial and Lewis and Clark. Wilder made her family’s travels famous in the “Little House on the Prairie” series, which has sold more than 41 million copies since the first book was published in 1932.
~MPRNEWS~
The Real Story Of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thanks to a hugely popular series of books and a hit TV show, millions of fans around the world feel a personal connection with Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose autobiographical Little House series tells the story of a childhood spent on the American frontier. But how much of that story was fact, and how much of it was fiction? The author of a new Laura Ingalls Wilder biography digs into her life, from the plains of Kansas to her later days in the American south, where she wrote her classic series.
~Wisconsin Public Radio~
Were Laura Ingalls Wilder’s stories of extreme weather accurate?
Meteorologist Barbara Boustead has been combining her love of the weather and the ‘Little House’ series for decades, and she shares her findings in a new book.
~Wisconsin Public Radio~
‘Little House On The Prairie’s’ Wilder Women
Little House on the Prairie and the Ingalls family are seen as a common depiction of 19th century rural America. In a New Yorker article, Judith Thurman explores the little known lives and politics of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter, the women behind the series.
~WYNC NPR~
LauraPalooza 2010: Putting the “Oh!” in Mankato
We went to LauraPalooza last week. Yes, it was really called “LauraPalooza”: the first-ever combined academic conference/fan fair/geekcon devoted to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and YES, it was all that and a bag of cracklings.
~Wendy McClure~
Greeting the New Year with Laura Ingalls Wilder
Although Christmas is celebrated in each of Wilder’s Little House novels, a celebration of New Year’s Day occurs only in By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939). Wilder first recorded this 1880 occasion in her memoir Pioneer Girl, where the family ate dinner near the townsite of De Smet, Dakota Territory, with the newly arrived Robert and Ella Boast hosting.
~The Pioneer Girl Project~
LauraPalooza, Julyy 7-10, 2019
I am just back from my first-ever LauraPalooza, sponsored by the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association (LIWLRA) and held this year in Onalaska, Wisconsin, just over an hour away from Pepin, Wisconsin. The people involved in planning and implementing the conference, including but not limited to LIWLRA president Barbara Mayes Boustead, vice-president Patti Collins, and conference co-chairs Karen Pearce and Melanie Stringer, did an outstanding job.
~The Pioneer Girl Project~
Back to top