Rose Wilder Lane Her Story Author:Rose Wilder Lane, Roger Lea MacBride Rose Wilder Lane had the great good fortune to be the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder whose books have been champion bestsellers for years, and whose greatest bestseller, THE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, is the basis of the perennially popular prime-time television series. — This is Rose's story, sure to please all who love Laura Ingalls Wilder,... more » as well as the many thousands who know and love Rose's own bestselling books.
With a mother like Laura Ingalls Wilder, it was natural for Rose to grow up with wider horizons than most children in the last decade of the nineteenth century -- and natural for her to become a prioneer in building a singularly independent and full life for a woman of her time.
She was woman's editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, foreign correspondent, a constant and popular contributor to every leading magazine in the country, including Sunset, Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, Cosmospolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, and Redbook. Her most famous bestseller, Let the Hurricane Roar, was continuously in print for forty years, and is now back in print as Young Pioneers.
Roger Lea MacBride has fashioned the story of Rose Wilder Lane from her letters and diaries. "True," writes MacBride, "not all of the places or the chronology of events are precisely as history would record them. They nonetheless reflect the incredible life Rose Wilder Lane lived... Rose knew that in telling a true story, precision of detail matters not. Truth, when the word is applied to a Rose, far transcends ordinary ties to reality. It is with that sure knowledge that a grandson offers to you her perfectly genuine fictional autobiography."
And so here is ROSE WILDER LANE: HER STORY--by Rose Wilder Lane and Roger Lea MacBride.
Roger Lea MacBride is Rose Wilder Lane's grandson; and, of course, Laura Ingalls Wilder's great-grandson.« less