Wilder on the Prairie

The only podcast that talks about all things Laura Ingalls Wilder, one "Little House" book at a time.

Episode 150 - LW - Cap Garland 06/02/2025

Episode 150 - LW - Cap Garland Episode 150 The Long Winter, chapter 9, "Cap Garland" Join us this week as we discuss shoes of the 1880s, George Bradley, Mary Power, Minnie Johnson, Cap Garland, "patent" desks, Florence Garland, Ben Woodworth, Arthur Johnson, the date of the blizzard, Mr. Foster/Silas Holmes, the Beardsley girls, the Wilmarth boys, Mead's Hotel, and Couse's Hardware. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/36807270

Episode 149 - LW - Settled in Town 05/26/2025

Episode 149 - LW - Settled in Town Episode 149 Chapter 8 of the Long Winter, "Settled in Town". Join us this week as we discuss the Long Winter being translated for the Japanese market after World War II, how long it takes for wood to weather grey, who was Ellen's calf's father?, John Carroll, roll-top desks, Thomas Power, Daniel Loftus, the difference of straw vs. hay, the definition of "all hollow", the Sherwood family, the Garland family, the Owens family, "to bach", and Mr. Foster. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/36705290

Episode 148 - LW - Indian Warning 05/19/2025

Episode 148 - LW - Indian Warning Episode 148 The Long Winter ch. 7, "Indian Warning" Join us this week as we discuss the third person omniscient narrator, where Royal and Almanzo homesteaded, which tribe the Native American may have been from, outdated depictions of Native Americans vis a vis language used, origin of the word "geezer", Ellie vs. Nell Boast, "to ceil", Laura not being allowed to stack hay in town, and Psalm 55:6. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/36616620

Episode 147 - LW - Indian Summer 05/12/2025

Episode 147 - LW - Indian Summer Episode 147 Ch. 6 of the Long Winter, "Indian Summer". Join us this week as we discuss the origins of the phrase "Indian summer" and dovkies. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/36526175

Episode 146 - LW - After the Storm 05/05/2025

Episode 146 - LW - After the Storm Episode 146 Ch. 4 of The Long Winter, "After the Storm". Join us this week as we discuss tar paper nailed to the roof, what an "Indian summer" is, why Laura wore a shawl instead of a coat, "to scud", Mary not believing Laura's "queer notions", great auks, and why snow melts in the south. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/36378690

Episode 145 - LW - October Blizzard 04/28/2025

Episode 145 - LW - October Blizzard Episode 145 Ch. 6 of The Long Winter, "October Blizzard". Join us this week as we discuss Pa's sunflower song, baking soda in the bean broth, changing the bean water, cambric tea, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny", "All the Bluebonnets Are Over the Border"/"The Blue Bonnets". /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/36330900

Episode 144 - LW - Fall of the Year 04/21/2025

Episode 144 - LW - Fall of the Year Episode 144 The Long Winter ch. 3 "Fall of the Year" Join us this week as we discuss equinoctial storms, battens, how big is a bushel?, sweet preserves, winnowing beans, shocking sod corn, pinning muslin to your knee while sewing a sheet, and Ma's green pumpkin pie. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/36237395

Episode 143 - LW - An Errand to Town 04/13/2025

Episode 143 - LW - An Errand to Town Episode 143 Ch. 2 of The Long Winter "An Errand to Town". Join us this week as we discuss when the first frost is in DeSmet, cutter bar teeth, 5 cents for the cutter bar tooth, Charleton and Gerald Fuller, what a "pocketbook" is, the definition of "primly" and "rivet". /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/36119505

Episodes 142 - LW - Make Hay While the Sun Shines 04/06/2025

Episodes 142 - LW - Make Hay While the Sun Shines Episode 142 Long Winter ch. 1 "Make Hay While the Sun Shines" Join us this week as we discuss 1941 Newbery winners, celebrities born in 1940, what happened between "Silver Lake" and "Long Winter", when you make hay, big bluestem grass, the definition of "to grub", garter snakes, definition of "haycock" and "whiffletree", a recipe for ginger water, and muskrat lodges. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/36029645

Bonus Episode 3 03/03/2025

Bonus Episode 3 Thank you for 100,000 downloads! :) To celebrate, here are my 10 favorite chapters (so far) of the Little House books. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/35504870

Episode 141 - SSL - Evening Shadows Fall 01/13/2025

Episode 141 - SSL - Evening Shadows Fall Episode 141 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 32 "Evening Shadows Fall". Join us this week as we discuss "Barbara Allen". /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/34828545

Episode 140 - SSL - Mosquitoes 01/06/2025

Episode 140 - SSL - Mosquitoes Episode 140 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 31, "Mosquitoes". Join us as we discuss when mosquitoes come out and what temperature, mosquito bar netting, pink mosquito bar, and what a smudge is. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/34730815

Episode 139 - SSL - Where Violets Grow 12/30/2024

Episode 139 - SSL - Where Violets Grow By the Shores of Silver Lake Ch. 30 "Where Violets Grow". Join us this week as we discuss violets, the weight of three-year-old todds, "draggled", the meaning of hanging a horseshoe like a "U", and "Keep the Horseshoe over the Door". /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/34650530

Episode 138 - SSL - The Shanty on the Claim 12/23/2024

Episode 138 - SSL - The Shanty on the Claim Episode 138 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 29 "The Shanty on the Claim". Join us this week as we discuss a spade vs. a shovel, laths, the Timber Culture Act of 1873, wild onions, crocus, sheep sorrel, where did the glass boxes come from?, and where was the Lone Tree from? /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/34574315

Episode 137 - SSL - Moving Day 12/16/2024

Episode 137 - SSL - Moving Day Episode 137 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 28 "Moving Day" Join us as we discuss skids, "joggling", $250 or $300 in 2024 money, "A Motto for Every Man", and "Beacon - Light of Home". /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/34461555

Episode 136 - SSL - Living in Town 12/09/2024

Episode 136 - SSL - Living in Town Episode 136 ch 27 By the Shores of Silver Lake "Living in Town". Join us this week as we discuss the one-mile walk into town, "ceil", "cornice", "Oh I'm As Happy As a Big Sunflower", the Jerome Beardsley family, who Louizy and Annie were, who killed Hunter, and Mitchell, SD. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/34339905

Episode 135 - SSL - The Building Boom 12/02/2024

Episode 135 - SSL - The Building Boom Episode 135 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 26 "The Buiding Boom". Join us this week as we discuss $15.25, $1.75, Western false front architure, $42.50, and why Laura and Mary were arguing? /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/34222430

Episode 134 - SSL - Pa's Bet 11/25/2024

Episode 134 - SSL - Pa's Bet Episode 134 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 25 "Pa's Bet" Join us this week as we discuss Mr. Hinz and the 2 Mr. Hawthorns, "the fat was in the fire", "anywheres", what $14 is in 2024, and how big 160 acres really is. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/34130306

Episode 133 - SSL - The Spring Rush 11/18/2024

Episode 133 - SSL - The Spring Rush Episode 133 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 24 "The Spring Rush" Join us this week as we discuss "greenhorns", how much 25 cents was, Fort Pierre South Dakota, "March comes in like a lamb, it goes out like a lion", what it means "to board" someone, Sioux Falls South Dakota and "to be hung for a sheep as a lamb". /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/33965142

Episode 132 - SSL - On the Pilgrim Way 11/10/2024

Episode 132 - SSL - On the Pilgrim Way Episode 132 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 23, "On the Pilgrim Way" Join us this week as we discuss "Lend a Helping Hand", Rev. Alden in the late 1870s, Rev. Stewart Sheldon, Huron South Dakota, the Home Missionary Society, the word "repined", brown sugar syrup, "receipts" vs. "recipes", Jean Pierre de Smet, and "baching". /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/33872087

Episode 131 - SSL - Happy Winter Days 11/04/2024

Episode 131 - SSL - Happy Winter Days Episode 131 ch 31 By the Shores of Silver Lake "Happy Winter Days" Join us as we discuss 1880 history in context, Yankton South Dakota, The New York Ledger, continued stories (serials), "Gypsy's Warning", "When I Was One and Twenty, Nell", "Billy Boy", "Camptown Races", "Three Blind Mice", "Nelly Was a Lady (Last Night She Died)", "Ben Bolt", "Oft in the Stilly Night", and "Banks O'Doon". /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/33767857

Episode 130 - SSL - Merry Christmas 10/27/2024

Episode 130 - SSL - Merry Christmas Episode 130 Ch. 21 By the Shores of Silver Lake "Merry Christmas" Join us as we discuss setting the Christmas table, wristlets, "gathers", cheesecloth, codfish gravy, where did the cream come from?, "plenty more down in a cellar in a teacup", onion stuffing, "Jumping Jehosephat!", and the Boasts living in the surveyor's office just for the winter. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/33634447

Episode 129 - SSL - The Night Before Christmas 10/20/2024

Episode 129 - SSL - The Night Before Christmas Episode 129 ch 20 By the Shores of SIlver Lake "The Night Before Christmas" Join us this week as we discuss Ella Peck Boast, the definitions of "parbroil" and "raw-fry", claim jumpers, the ranges of voice types, and "Merry, Merry Christmas Everywhere". /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/33539652

Episode 128 - SSL - Christmas Eve 10/13/2024

Episode 128 - SSL - Christmas Eve Episode 128 Ch. 19 by the Shores of Silver Lake "Christmas Eve" Join us as we discuss the scrap bag, jackrabbits, cornmeal mush, "Down the River on the Ohio", "Why Chime the Bells So Merrily", "Jingle Bells", "Mountain of the Lord", and "Gentle Words and Loving Smiles". /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/33441347

Episode 127 - SSL - Pa Finds the Homestead 10/06/2024

Episode 127 - SSL - Pa Finds the Homestead Episode 127 By the Shores of Silver Lake, chapter 18 "Pa Finds the Homestead" Join us this week as we discuss going 10 miles in the snow, buffalo wolf tracks, wolf life spans, pack sizes, and Pa's quarter section. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/33351472

Episode 126 - SSL - Wolves on Silver Lake 09/29/2024

Episode 126 - SSL - Wolves on Silver Lake Episode 126 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 17 "Wolves on Silver Lake" Join us this week as we discuss where their shoes came from (?), whether wolves are nocturnal, and flatirons. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/33254637

Episode 125 - SSL - Winter Days 09/22/2024

Episode 125 - SSL - Winter Days Episode 125 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 16 "Winter Days" Join us this week as we discuss muskrats in South Dakota, the history of checkers, and the word "immoderately". /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/33162007

Episode 124 - SSL - The Last Man Out 09/15/2024

Episode 124 - SSL - The Last Man Out Episode 124 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 15 "The Last Man Out" Join us this week as we discuss Horace G. Woodworth, the "prairie cure" for consumption, buffalo wolves, Pa's prediction of Dakota winters, "Hail, Columbia!", "Highland Mary", "Coming through the Rye", "I'm Mrs. Jinks of Madison Square", the polka and the waltz. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/33064627

Episode 123 - SSL - The Surveyor's House 09/09/2024

Episode 123 - SSL - The Surveyor's House Episode 123 Ch. 14 in By the Shores of Silver Lake "The Surveyor's House" Join us as we discuss gables, the history of canned food, the location of Brookings, "Mary of the Wild Moor", and "Paddle Your Own Canoe". /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/32964987

Episode 122 - SSL - Breaking Camp 09/01/2024

Episode 122 - SSL - Breaking Camp Episode 122 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 13 "Breaking Camp" Join us this week as we discuss "Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid (Nobody Asked You", Lena's ultimate fate, Jean's fate, Pa seeing in shades of grey, Brookings South Dakota, Robery Abey Boast, and what a sherriff did in the late 1800s. /episode/index/show/wilderontheprairie/id/32857292

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