In this episode, we cover Laura’s life outside her Little House series, from her early and traumatic years of marriage, to her, Almanzo, and daughter Rose’s life in Mansfield, Missouri. After the family’s tough years of settling in the Ozarks and establishing their farm, Rocky Ridge, Laura began a work as both a newspaper columnist, a Farm Loan officer, and manager of their family farm. While Almanzo worked farming and building a cozy house for the family, Laura worked her tushie off taking in boarders, cooking for railroad travelers, selling eggs and butter…anything that would create an income.
In Part One we talked about her childhood. In this, Part Two, we cover the years as she established herself as a writer and developed a writing partnership with her world traveling, freelance writer daughter, Rose. In Part Three, we will get to the writing of the books that would engrave Laura’s name in history, and their own story that lived long after Laura’s ended.
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