Episodes

In 1937, when she was 70 years old, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled to Detroit to deliver a speech that would forever after be known as her "Detroit Book Fair Speech." What was the Detroit Book Fair? What was in her speech? Why is this speech considered so integral to her career? Eddie Higgins returns to the podcast with answers to all of this and more. Then, eavesdrop on our field trip to the Detroit Public Library, home of one of the most robust collections of Laura Ingalls Wilder artifacts. ===...

Chris Czajka's day job is with WNET in New York City, and in 2020 he developed and produced Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page as part of PBS's American Masters series. But that's only a smidge of his Little House involvement. Tune in to find out all of the ways Little House — both the book series and the TV show — has found its way into his life. ===================Theme music is "Roll the Old Chariot Along" from the album Green Willow by the Dreadnaughts. Used with permission.==============...

It's a special Thanksgiving episode with the origin story of Pamela Smith Hill, a longtime literary fixture in the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Hill's biography Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life was published in 2007 by the South Dakota Historical Society Press. She went on to act as editor and annotator of Pioneer Girl , Wilder's previously unpublished memoir that became an unexpected national bestseller in 2014, also with SDHS Press. Her latest book is Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: Red...

Cindy Wilson couldn’t get the question out of her head: Was the Long Winter really as bad as Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote in her book? Answering that question—from trains to food to fuel—resulted in a book, The Beautiful Snow . Cindy visits the podcast to tell us all about it. ===================Theme music is "Roll the Old Chariot Along" from the album Green Willow by the Dreadnaughts. Used with permission.====================

Our conversation with author and children's book editor Wendy McClure includes her book The Wilder Life , the hilarity of 1970s Weight Watchers recipes , and encounters with Melissa Gilbert. ===================Theme music is "Roll the Old Chariot Along" from the album Green Willow by the Dreadnaughts. Used with permission.====================

Historic interpreter Laura Keyes joins the podcast to talk about Little House fashion — dresses in particular — with a special emphasis on those in Little Town on the Prairie and These Happy Golden Years . Laura Keyes won the Mary Todd Lincoln Oratory Award at Kentucky's Lincoln Days in 2025. ===================Theme music is "Roll the Old Chariot Along" from the album Green Willow by the Dreadnaughts. Used with permission.====================

Though they both live in the United States now, Brits Katy Bowman and Eddie Higgins grew up reading the Little House® books in England, where the meaning of Laura Ingalls Wilder's words wasn't always straightforward. Join us as the two Brits trade stories about what might have gotten lost in translation. Voracious, indeed! ===================Theme music is "Roll the Old Chariot Along" from the album Green Willow by the Dreadnaughts. Used with permission.====================

Blizzards and tornadoes and grasshopper weather ... the Little House® books are full of weather events. They're also based on real life, so did this weather really happen? Meteorologist and climatologist Barb Boustead talks about her just-published book, Wilder Weather , which connects the weather mentioned in the Little House® series with actual, historical weather events. ===================Theme music is "Roll the Old Chariot Along" from the album Green Willow by the Dreadnaughts. Used with p...

Anyone who's done any research beyond simply reading the Little House books knows the name William Anderson. But how did the preeminent biographer of Laura Ingalls Wilder get his start? Here it is, William Anderson's Little House origin story, in his own words. ===================Theme music is "Roll the Old Chariot Along" from the album Green Willow by the Dreadnaughts. Used with permission.====================

What is Land of Laura? Why do we need another Little House podcast? In this premiere episode we'll tell you what this podcast is all about and let you know what you can expect in future episodes. ===================Theme music is "Roll the Old Chariot Along" from the album Green Willow by the Dreadnaughts. Used with permission.====================