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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Nov 04 2007 : 6:07:17 PM
I LOVE the little house on the prairie books and I am desperate to read some other books based on this time period. If you have any suggestions of books about this time period please post them here! Thanks!
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| lmillward |
Posted - Jan 01 2008 : 11:36:32 AM
OOPS I meant Mildred Walker's Winter Wheat (After reading all the posts I had Willa Cather on the brain!)
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| lmillward |
Posted - Jan 01 2008 : 11:34:42 AM
Don't forget Willa Cather's Winter Wheat. It is often overlooked but is so evocative of an age in a place that calms the soul.
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| carpenterlady |
Posted - Dec 30 2007 : 9:41:11 PM
Nothing To Do But Stay by Carrie Young. It is about a North Dakota farm family during the first part of the twentieth century. It is non-fiction. A biography of the author's mother. It is one of my favorite books. |
| kissmekate |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 9:10:56 PM
The Sara Donati books are some of my favorite stories. Very well paced and written.
If anyone reads the Outlander series by Diana Gibaldon, a couple of her characters have cameos in one of Donati's books. (can't remember which one) She is a fan, and did it as a sort of tribute.
The Outlander books are a good series too, but the pioneer aspect don't come into play until the last few books.
I also read O Pioneers as well. Very good!!!
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| sewgirlie |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 5:19:13 PM
I would recommend My Antonia by Willa Cather too. She does such a great job writing about that time period and setting. |
| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 3:30:46 PM
dennise it was a cute book but I really wasn't overly impressed with it. I dont think the girl who wrote it would score very high on her own quiz. I bought it cause I have to have everything prairie!
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 09:52:12 AM
"Giants in the Earth" and "Peder Victorious" - written by O. E. Rolvaag, a Norwegian author in the early part of last century. Both are about Norwegian immigrants coming into the prairies. I love these books!
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| Dixie_Amazon |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 09:51:23 AM
I am thinking of getting it after Christmas. How were the instructions?
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 09:12:46 AM
Dennise I already have that book! It was cute. I scored a 38 on the quiz! Fun!
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| Dixie_Amazon |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 05:44:25 AM
I just read about The Prairie Girl's Guide to Life (http://store.taunton.com/onlinestore/item/070988.html) in BeSewStylish magazine. Take the Prairie Girl quiz, http://besewstylish.taunton.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=main&webtag=besewstylish&entry=192. I scored 34.
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Dec 17 2007 : 7:20:38 PM
I'm gonna be checking the library and bookstore on Thursday before I head north. Any other suggestions?
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| Fabulous Farm Femmes |
Posted - Nov 07 2007 : 6:42:46 PM
Try "Oh, Pioneers" by Willa Cather.It's my favorite. From a fellow pioneer/Ingalls Wilder groupie. |
| Amie C. |
Posted - Nov 07 2007 : 6:26:27 PM
This is a bit of a stretch, but Gilead (by Marylinne Robinson) is set in Iowa and runs between the civil war era and the 1950s. The main character of the story is an old man and he retells the stories of his father and his grandfather, who was an ardent abolitionist. They are three generations of preachers in the same small town. It's a great novel (i think it won the pulitzer a couple of years ago).
This is another stretch, but if you are interested in nonfiction about the prairie, there's always PrairyErth by William Least Heat Moon. It's a huge nonfiction book that explores the history, landscape, nature and people of a single county in Kansas.
More along the lines of Little House, I have a book on my shelf called Prairie School, by Lois Lenski. I think the time period is more like Great Depression, but the illustration on the cover reminds me very much of Laura Ingalls Wilder's descriptions of walking across the prairie - the wide sky, the wildflowers, birds flying up out of the tall grass as the children carry their lunch pail to the schoolhouse. According to the back cover, it's based on a true story about a group of children who got snowed in at school during a huge blizzard. I haven't actually read it, can you tell! But I've been looking for something to read on these cold November evenings, so I think this is going to be next. |
| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Nov 07 2007 : 6:12:08 PM
Thanks everyone!
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| Canadian farmgirl |
Posted - Nov 07 2007 : 2:22:27 PM
Another to try is Dawn Miller's The Journal of Callie Wade. It has sequels, too.
Jane Kirkpatrick is great. I loved All Together In One Place.
Sara Donati has a series, starting with Into The Wilderness.
Catherine Palmer's series A Town Called Hope starts with the book called Prairie Rose.
I enjoyed these.
Lori |
| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Nov 05 2007 : 6:07:53 PM
Wow Amanda! I would definetly like non-fiction! In fact I would probably love to read your thesis! If you have a list you can pass on that would be wonderful!
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Posted - Nov 05 2007 : 5:19:50 PM
I wrote my thesis on Little House- if you're looking for non-fiction, let me know-- I have HUNDREDS of books you could read. :-)
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| Lorie |
Posted - Nov 04 2007 : 10:41:23 PM
Look into Jane Kirkpatrick. She hasd 2-3 book series that I am enjoying.
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Nov 04 2007 : 9:13:26 PM
you would probably enjoy the books by Janette Oke or even books by Beverly Lewis.
your local library or book store should have them. they do have a religious focus to them, but most of them are set in pioneer times or about the Amish lifestyle.
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