"Baby Grace attended a teacher's college and taught school for a few years until her marriage to a farmer but they would have no children. Remembering pretty little Grace with her round face, blonde hair and blue eyes from the LH books made seeing a photo of Grace during the Dust Bowl and Depression years as a hard-bitten farm wife in shapeless clothing was heartbreaking for me."
~ Reviewer Laurie
"Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder"
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"I had not realized what suckers all those settlers had been. Similar to the people hoodwinked by the gold rush. The railroad companies wanted settlers on the land in order to make money(isn't that always the case?). The railroads charged exorbitant fees to transport crops as well as to store the crops before they were transported. Also, the railroads made money shipping vital goods to the farmers. Settlers didn't understand that the best farmland had already been taken by large corporations that ran bonanza farms and that there was no way in hell an individual farmer could ever hope to succeed the way the large monoculture bonanza farms did. Basically, Pa and his peers were set up for failure."
~ Reviewer Julie
"Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder"
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