As a teen living in an Oakland ghetto in the mid 1970s, buying and reading the book series was an excellent healthy and wholesome fantasy escape. It helped me make my real escape, soon as I turned 18.

I’m 70 years of age, and when my children would come home from school and watch Little House. I read all of Laura’s books and would let my mind wander back in time and dream of living in that way and that time period. I was fascinated by her stories. The kid across the street would come over and refer to me as ma Ingalls. I still think that would be a wonderful time to live, but lots of hardwork and hardships. Thanks for posting. Shame kids now aren’t interested in what it took to get them where they are nowadays. 🦋🦋🦋🌸🌸🌸

I grew up in the South Bronx in the 80s and 90s. Watching Little House on the Prairie, helped take me away from all of the fighting, crime, and other stuff growing up poor in NYC. I always wanted to live out in a farm. Great show.

I worked at her Homestead in De Smet, SD all through college. Best job ever. Laura and her family were all amazing people with great values and accomplishments. It is the best story of the hardship and happiness involved with pioneer living.

I used to read her books then I was younger,you can totally get lost in them.

Buying a house with cash from your side-hustle... ahh, yes... those were the days...

Her maiden name was Ingalls. Not Wilder. Come on man.

I remember when I was a kid my mom bought me one of those book subscriptions from a school book fair and it not only sent you all of the Little House Books, but also sent extra activities like how to make your own doll out of a corn husk or something like that. I thought it was the best thing ever.

My mother’s family used to live in a shack in a field behind the Wilder home; they had to cross the Wilder property to get to the road that went into town. Sometimes Laura would give them money and ask them to bring things back. Among those things were Big Chief tablets, which she wrote the Little House books on.

Favorite book series author of my childhood ❤ I'm not American, thus I learned a lot about USA's history from the books.

My mom was a huge fan of the Books and the show... and that’s why my name is Laura..

Little house in the big woods was one of my favorites as a kid, wonderfully descriptive and engaging.

I STILL watch the reruns of this show to this day! I loved how every episode had a loving and learning feel to it and that times were simplistic even though they were hard. It’s just a good clean show and I have been watching it for 39 years 😂. Thanks for this video!

OMG! my dad love "little house on the prairie" he kept telling to watch the show and I only watch them when I go back to my hometown; to my parents house... my dad being not american, muslim and coming from poor family hearing my dad being excited to share one of his favorite show is so cute. he kept telling me that he and his friend had to watch the show while watching it from the outside of a rich kids house... this show also seems to give me good memories of my dad.

I remember this well. I had the blessing of having my great-grandmother alive and in my life well into adulthood. She’d watch Little House on TV and I’d watch it with her. She told me all kinds of stories and pointed out things that were similar in her own life to the show. The clothing, riding in wagons, etc. I remember my great-great-grandma too though she died when I was little. She lived in a log cabin and still wore her bonnets every day sitting by the magnolias reading her bible. I played “Prairie” and dressed up in her bonnets and aprons after she passed. Which is funny now cause we never lived on the prairie. We lived in the south in an old mill hill neighborhood.

Her brother's last name would have been Ingalls, not Wilder unless Weird History knows something the rest of us don't.

I went on a full tour of every single homestead (not in order) my family and I first went to Rocky Ridge, then to Kansas, the place they lived in Iowa that Laura never wrote about, then to Walnut Grove, then Desmet (Little Town on the Prarie, Silver Lakes) and ended with Pepin.

You know you're obsessed with LIW when none of the facts in the story are new to you....... Pointing that out for a friend.

Nellie wasn't real but based on three particularly nasty girls Laura knew.

Being a child of the '70s and watched "Little House on the Prairie" religiously, I found this very interesting. Thank you.

I live right by Laura Ingalls old homestead

Wilder was Laura's married name. This presentation keeps incorrectly referring to her family name as Wilder but it was Ingalls.

Small fact was wrong: Wilder was her married name; her brother's last name would have been Ingalls. (Also, the Wilders are distant relatives of mine 😋)

I'm actually related to her. My grandpa has a diary of hers from when she was a teen just chilling in his attic.

Hi, I love Weird History. Quick fact check: Laura's brother, Charles, wouldn't have been named Charles Wilder, but Charles Ingalls. "Wilder" is Almanzo's last name. Thanks!

Years ago, I went home to Montana/ My folks told me to meet Mr. Ingalls next door a cousin to Laura. I was teaching and Mr. Englls, who was 83 at the time, had taught in Wisconsin somewhere in the 30's. He said one time he had a student that showed up very late. When asked what the problem was he said there'd been a skunk getting it to there their chickens. During the night they heard a ruckus in the coup so his dad got up and took the shotgun out there accompanied by the dog. He was wearing a night shirt slit up the side. When he opened the door of the coop the dog put his cold wet nose on his leg. His dad mowed down a whole row of chickens. He'd been home all morning canning chickens.

Literally just wanna see the weird ball they made out of the pigs bladder. That really stuck with me when I was like 12

You're making Rose out to be the perfect daughter, but their relationship was often fraught and Rose suffered a lot of mental health issues and had a lot of money problems from some impulsive spending and went home regularly for support from her parents, even as an adult. You also missed that they lived in Florida for awhile. Her family's life was super interesting and a lot sadder than it's made out to be in the Little House books.

How about remaking the video with the necessary corrections. This is a fun way to learn history but it needs to get the facts right.

I know this video was based just on Laura but even tho she was home schooled, her mother went to school and even attended finishing school in Milwaukee. There’s a whole other book series on her life around the time of the Bleeding Kansas. It wasn’t surprising that Laura ended up being well educated.

I've been to Laura's house in Mansfield Missouri. I wanted to go back this year, but the covid had other plans.

I grew up with the show. It taught how to empathize , be considerate, and do my best to live with integrity. It also taught me how to cry as a man accordingly and with a level of correctness. I found the series to be a huge part of developing insight into life's enriching and most endearing moments shared. Thank you for this doc...

I would be interested to learn of Agatha Christie and Helen Keller .

The first book series I read. My parents bought me a deluxe set of the entire book series for Christmas when I was 9. I couldn't put them down. These books paved the way for my lifelong love of books, especially book series. Loved the show too! I'm 19 days younger than Melissa Gilbert, so I feel a special draw to the show.

These were the first chapter books I ever read. I love them to this day. The history and detail behind them is so interesting. The very first one gives general information about how butchering a pig worked, cheese making, and so many things modern people wouldn’t necessarily know first hand.

I must say something about homeschooling. It's great! Ask my brother in law. His brother has his master's, 2 sisters both have graduated college and he is almost done with his 1st doctorate.

Her books and amazing descriptive details have gotten me through more awful times and sadness that you will ever know. I have found such courage and strength in her stories and her hard life and even if parts of it were omitted puffed up or tweaked a bit the point is she made an impact and I’ll be ever grateful. What’s cool is even though I knew quite a bit of this information you guys taught me some facts I hadn’t known. Thank you!!!

I was the same age as Laura during the television series. It was my favorite show. At some point I went from seeing “Pa” as the amazing father you dreamed of having to.....more. 😂 I have visited the house in Missouri. I also visited Almonzo’s childhood home. I lived in (way) upstate NY for a year and only a few miles from his home.

"There was no official cause of death listed for Charles Wilder." Well of course not, Charles Wilder didn't exist. Charles was her brother not her son, his name would've been Charles Ingalls. Almanzo didn't have a brother Charles, only Royal. Edit: My point was he keeps calling them the Wilders when they are CLEARLY not the Wilders because they're talking about Laura's family NOT Almanzo's.

I'm so early, Nellie Oleson hasn't had time to dislike this video yet.

At the Minnesota Historical Society, there is a letter in their archives to the governor from a farmer begging for help with the crop loss. The farmer included a dead locust and letter still has the dead locust in it. I got to see it while taking a history workshop for educators.

That little poke at homeschooled children was a bit harsh. Most homeschooled kids are VERY well educated.

I only started watching the television show within the last two years. I then downloaded all the books. I have fallen in love with Little House an Laura Ingalls Wilder! Little House will make you cry ! ! !

Laura is my great, great aunt....my mother is an Ingalls woman, by birth, and she's still a homesteader.

Awesome job! I loved her books, the show, and mostly hearing about the real Laura Wilder! She lived through ALOT of our history! She was an amazing woman.

I'm 25 but I watched Little House on the Prairie everyyyyy night when I was a kid & I had a MAJORRRR crush on Pa aka Michael Landon 😍 It still feels nostalgic to me when I watch it , like asmr or something. 😅🥰

This is the first book series I read as a kid, good times 🤧

I loved the show, and I read all the books. One of favorites! 🌹

I love tht show , you can learn alot from watching Little house. Respect, family values, hard work , love of God and country.

I’m named after Laura Ingalls’ mother, and I do everything I can to research and find out everything I can about the all of the Ingalls’ and their lives. Thanks so much for this video!

My 3rd grade 4th grade teacher and librarian (all the same person) was absolutely obsessed with these books throughout the years we read most if not all of them and watch the movie several times. Will never forget that

"I bet you can still close your eyes and hear that theme song..." Nope. All my brain comes up with is Bonanza. But I'm fine with that.

Lucy Maud Montgomery with Anne of Green Gables.

Laura Ingalls Wilder is a national treasure! I love this woman! and I love Michael Landon for commemorating her as well! ♡♡♡ American History is so fascinating... History is just fascinating period! ⚘

This is really Cool. My Family and I watched Little House on the Prairie for many years on TV while i was growing up. Now after losing the last of my elders and having grown up with my parents and grandparents in a 2 family house since I was 3 years old....I can certainly understand writing a book or two or three of our 3 generations growing up in that house on Long island since 1968. It's not any frontier travelling out to the West Family, but I know alot of my grandparents stories of moving to America in the 1920s and 1930s and what life was like at that time in the old country which was Germany...,and their new country in America...including the long 16 day trip here in 1921 for my opa and 1936 for my grandmother. I also have stories from when my mom and dad grew up in Ridgewood and Howard Beach Queens during the greaser days of the 50's, and my dad enlisted in the army and spent a year in Cambodia from which I have 300 letters written back and forth between them while he was abroad until they got married when he returned....then raising a family In Queens and then our 2 family house eventually during the 60s, 70s and 80s and then after when my brother and i left the nest and my mom, dad and grandparents continued to live there throughout the rest of their lives through the 90s when my opa passed in 1997 and 2000s when my mom passed in 2001...... and then my oma lived 15 more years till 2016 to see her great grandchildren grow up and graduate high school and my dad lived another 4 years growing closer to his grandchildren and us until he was tragically TAKEN by the virus in 2020 as the last of our elders. Now that is the short story...but could easily be 3 books of 3 generations. I believe everyone has a story to tell that future generations will be interested in knowing about!

I’d love to see a video on The Waltons (Earl Hamner Jr.)! Huge fan of the show, plus I live in Schyuler, Va - home of the real Walton farmhouse.

Love watching anything about Half Pint and her beloved family! Thanks for sharing! ❤️

I'll tell one fact: ALBERT WASN'T REAL

Every time the show came on my Pops would hand me a box of tissue! I enjoyed this show and still do today! 🇺🇸🌻🌷❤️⛰

As I grew up near Walnut Grove Minnesota where on the banks of Plum Creek, the locust issue, and the long winter Took place, Laura and her family were an Intercal part of my grade school and junior high education. There’s also a museum in Walnut Grove and in the Cottonwood County historical society Museum in Windham Minnesota are many of the original photographs of her family as well as a history of what happened with them. I was surprised not to hear Walnut Grove mentioned, as as the TV show took place almost exclusively there in Walnut Grove. They have a pageant there every year on the banks of Plum Creek the first three weekends in July is very historical and informative as well as being a good production. It attracts people from all over the world! I think it’s great that Laura wrote about her family and about the travels and experiences she had growing up, as otherwise we probably wouldn’t know anything about homesteading families etc. I do know that many homesteading families moved several times before settling down in one spot including some of my own family members who homesteaded in North Dakota Minnesota and Wisconsin

0:17 "To becoming a retired school teacher at the age of 18" Imagine retiring at 18 years old, those were the good old days.

I wish someone would come up with another series on historical era family life. So so interesting, and entertaining

Her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, was the founder of Libertarianism.

Homeschooling is a fantastic way to educate your children. The stigmas, stereotypes, and general negativity surrounding it really need to go away.

Would LOVE to see y'all do a video on Loretta Lynn!!! She is the Queen of country music.

I'd totally love to see a Weird History episode about Rose!

I feel like I'm the only person on the planet that has popped a "little house" DVD in my playstation 4. It's just a good show to watch when you're down or sick. Makes you feel humble and warm.

Thank you. Laura Ingalls Wilder was by far my favorite author when I was a girl. I read all of her books. And I didn't know most of this about her until now.

You should look into Dorothy Molter. She lived for 50 years alone in the bwca. And eventually became the only person allowed to live there. She is also known for selling root beer.

Toured their old homestead & the museum this past fall. I loved it

I loved reading Laura ingalls Wilder's books! I regret I sold them in one of my yard sales and wished I'd kept them. Little House on the Prairie was my favorite tv show. This video was really very interesting

Omg one of my favorite book authors ❤ Never thought you'd do a video about her, I love this channel even more now!

I've read all of her books and have been to the Laura Ingles Wilder museum! I'm so glad you made this video about her!

I live a short drive from the Wilder house in Mansfield, and have toured it and the house Rose had built for them, many times. That house is a beautiful, little Tudor-style, but Laura never cared for it, and moved back to the farmhouse. And there are some dark tales - 'The Ghost in the Little House' is a great resource for these.

Ive watched "Little House on the Prairie" with my family. She was one amazing woman. Cool story!

I love this classic series. I’m used to hearing the struggles of the civil war during this time. But it’s great to hear about life in America during this time.

I grew up watching this, Laura was only a couple of years older than me at the time and my Dad and I had the same kind of close relationship. I lived vicariously through her lol. Thank you for this video and giving a sort of tribute to the legacy of the Ingalls and Wilders

I heard that the maternal side of Laura Ingalls had some sort of genetic thing that caused baby boys to die early in life which is why both Laura and Caroline could never birth a healthy boy.

WOW LOVED ALL THIS HISTORY OF LAURA . I'VE BEEN WATCHING LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE LIKE IN THE 70S AND I AND I STILL WATCH IT .AND IM 57 YRS OLD.🤗🤷‍♀️

When I was younger I watched Little House on the Prairie. I did not know I lived eight miles away from an actual town she grew up in, when I was 8 or 9 years old I told myself I want to live in this town that we came to visit for dentist appointments, when I got older I moved here and found out Laura Ingalls Wilder lived here. I raised two children and have grown to respect the town for what it is and the past it had. It is still a growing and thriving little town on the prairie. My daughter makes rosaries and sells them in a little store.

Went on Wikipedia binge one night starting with Laura Ingalls Wilder and found the stories of Michael Landon and Rose Wilder to be the most fascinating and unexpected.

He seemed completely surprised that someone educated at home could manage to pass a test. Lol

My mom & I would watch this show every week and cry. My dad used to say "why do you watch this if all it does is make you cry"? We just replied that it was so good, we had to watch. I miss those times with my mom.

I was twelve years old and watching every single one of these tv shows in the 70’s and beyond. We even bought the dvd set for our own children. Funnily enough, we also are home schoolers... about to start the senior year of the youngest of 5 children who all grew up reading and watching Little House on the Prairie!

The only time I heard my grandma cuss as a child was when she told me a story of riding in a taxi with Laura in mansfield mo and said she seemed kind of bitchy lol love you grandma

There used to be a award for books named after her, but it was stripped because of her portrayal of Native Americans is considered racist. I’m all for respect, but people never pause to think about When these books were written and how views back them were different. If we try to be politically correct and Disneyfy everything especially books, then we are not allowing kids to read and think about how far we’ve come today. Today when you see the Little House on the Prairie books in school it’s not the whole book anymore. They only offer segments of the more wholesome parts of the book and omitting their experience with Native Americans all together. A neutered version of what I feel is a great series that should be read in its original form.

Our principal in high school told us about the series of little housebon the prier and I'm grateful cuz he exposed me to this amazing story

We bought the entire DVD set of these shows so that our 5 homeschooled children could enjoy them. Some of the scenes were a bit more upsetting than I had remembered when watching them the first time as a child. (Maybe because I was able to imagine the hardships as a mother and empathize better as an adult.) What good parents they were to have had such a driven and bright daughter! (A chip off the mom’s block, for sure!) What a wholesome book series and show they were!

I grew up reading the Little House on the Prairie books and this was an interesting insight into the life of the writer. L.M. Montgomery who wrote the Anne of Green Gable books would be a good author to profile as well as writer Thorne Smith whose 1941 book The Passionate Witch finished by Norman Matson was one of the pieces that provided the inspiration for the American TV show Bewitched. Ernest Hemmingway would also be an interesting character to profile.

Wish they had included the fact that the real Jack was a "brindle bulldog," i.e., a pitbull.

My life has seemed a tribute to Laura & her temple's struggles to make good their chosen life together as farmers, teachers & storytellers. My students ( homeschooled, deeply involved with all things Laura ) were learning to drive horses at my farm driven n their fascination with her text. They remarked on some things I hardly noticed myself, details that drive my own fascination to this day.

Always loved this story! I grew up on watching it. We need to bring it back into the homes today with society the way it is today. ❤

This is awesome cowboy now saddle up and do Lucy Maud Montgomery next

LMAO, there is no such thing as a "local pandemic" by definition.

I use to watch the Little House on the Prairie when I was a kid so many years ago & I really enjoyed it .. & once got the cassette tapes from the library to listen to Laura Ingalls Wilder telling the stories as she wanted them to be told in her own way of how it was spoken back then of the way they talked & I really enjoyed listening to them & it was done really well ... I also like to write poems ... & have been writing my poems since I was in the 7th grade .. some times the words just come to me to write them down on paper & others take longer you might say .... you just have to find the wright words to put down that will go with what you are say & trying to put the picture with & some times its just not there & you get a writer's block from time to time ... I know that is life & you just have to wait till it comes to ya for that right moment to come you way of a brain storm of writing what your feeling & how to put the meaning into words everyone will under stand & want to be reading more ... & that is what I have done in my poems over the years have put down into words of how I was feeling at the time in my life of what I was going through kinda like Laura Ingalls Wilder of put what she went into a book & me into poems .... { I'd like to be a writer some day that is my dream to have all my poems out there for everyone to read some day & I also have all these stories in my head that I want to write some day & have them printed out there for everyone to read my books of stories I write ... Ya, I know its only a dream of mine .. But, it don't hurt to dream of becoming a writer one of these days for everyone to enjoy reading my poems & stories I so long to write ....you have to get their attention & get them to keep reading .. & wanting more .... & if you don' t get past the first few pages & want to pick something else to read then it wasn't a good store or a good poem after all ... & all my poems are different & mean something to also from a different part of my life of what I was going through at the time . } I'm not giving up on my dream of becoming a writer .....

I have fond third grade memories of Little House on the Prairie (book and movie) and learning about pioneer life in general

Little House was/is the best show ever on television.

I read Laura Ingalls Wilder books when I was a kid.

I'm from Missouri and my great-grandmother used to visit Laura and have tea according to my mother. My grandfather grew up in Mansfield, Mo. My great-grandfather's brother worked on a car owned by Almanzo Wilder.

I’m still watching during this pandemic.