Table of Contents:
  • Writing the self: approaching the biographies of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane
  • Authorship: who wrote the books?
  • The mother-daughter collaboration that produced the Little house series
  • Place: what attracted Wilder and Lane to Little houses?
  • The place of "Little houses" in the lives and imaginations of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane
  • Time: what does history teach?
  • A perspective from 1932, the year Wilder published her first Little house book
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frederick Jackson Turner, and the enduring myth of the frontier
  • Rose Wilder Lane and Thomas Hart Benton: a turn toward history during the 1930s
  • Culture: how should people live, and how should society function?
  • Wilder's apprenticeship as a farm journalist
  • "They should know when they're licked": American Indians in Wilder's fiction
  • Frontier nostalgia and conservative ideology in the writings of Wilder and Lane.