Pamela Smith Hill Origin Story (Laura Ingalls Wilder Biographer)

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 She went on to act as editor and annotator of Pioneer Girl, Wilder's previously unpublished memoir that became an unexpected national bestseller in 2014, also with SDHS Press.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: Rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Books, published in July 2025 by University of Nebraska Press.

===================Theme music is "Roll the Old Chariot Along" from the album Green Willow by the Dreadnaughts. Used with permission.====================