«The True Story of Little House on the Prairie». www.bondandgrace.com (på engelsk). Besøkt 13. november 2024. «This editorial instinct largely came from Rose, who researched and edited her mother’s manuscripts as well as encouraging her to switch from first person narration to third, and perhaps most importantly, urged her to write for children rather than adults. This shift in audience is a critical one because it demanded the removal of large parts of Laura’s life that had been documented in her original memoir Pioneer Girl, which was never published during her lifetime but released posthumously as an annotated version in 2014. | Indeed, this biography tells a different, and in many ways, darker story than the idyllic rural childhood documented in Little House in the Big Woods (1932) and subsequent books. While the locations in which the family lived, and their frequent moves across the midwest are all true (the Ingalls are believed to have racked up 2,000 miles of travel over 20 years, mostly one by horse-drawn carriage and even by foot) the reason for these moves often had to do with the extreme poverty they faced and debts they accumulated.»
