A FAMILY COLLECTION Author:LAURA INGALLS WILDER Collected here for the first time are articles originally written by Laura Ingalls Wilder for the Missouri Ruralist, a widely-read farm paper, between 1911- 1918. They tell us how she lived, what she thought about, and where her affections lay. They are her prelude to the characters and events in the Little House books, and they allow us to glim... more »pse the stages by which one of America's favorite writers mastered her craft.« less