They're musical, too!

"I reread all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books..."

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/s/U7RHCi4QgW

I don't know. Was Pa a self-absorbed jerk who made his family live in poverty when he dragged them from pillar to post so that in the end, he left the family of women almost nothing to live on? Was he a good provider and an adventurous dad with musical talent who showered his family with love?

In the comments, they mention Wallace Stegner's "Big Rock Candy Mountain" which I have never read. I have never read anything by him except for this one: 

VQR » "Chip Off the Old Block" by Wallace Stegner

https://web.archive.org/web/20131022151131/http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1942/autumn/stegner-chip/

Now I got this song in my head!

Harry McClintock - "The Big Rock Candy Mountains" 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NMAPOQedRxA&si=kUHiV-9rk5Wq22C5

Anyways, the vast majority of today's homeschooling conservatives didn't live the way  Wallace Stegner's family or Laura Ingalls Wilder's family lived. But perhaps some of their ancestors did...