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...FIRST FOUR YEARS by Laura Ingalls Wilder. 134 pages. Harper...
...Missouri Ozarks and wrote a book about her frontier childhood in the 1870s. Warm and straightforward, full of detail, Little House in the Big Woods was followed by seven more volumes-only slightly disguised as fiction -that carried the heroine. Laura Ingalls, to the point of marriage with Almanzo Wilder. Collectively and individually, all the books have become classics of children's literature. It is safe to say that they have given a notion of what pioneer life was like to far more Americans than ever heard of Frederick Jackson Turner...
Laura Ingalls Wilder died in 1957 at age 90. But she left behind the manuscript of yet another Little House book, or at least the extended draft for one. Written out like the others in longhand in orange-covered school notebooks, it was found among her papers. It tells what happened to Laura and Almanzo during their first four years of married life. To Wilder fans, its publication can be considered as an unexpected gift from the past...
...Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. A film from Billy Wilder that is less severe than one might expect and less funny than one might hope. But there are many fine moments, a nice performance by Genevieve Page, and a kind of bad-boy-goes-straight kindness in Wilder's surprisingly gentle denouement...
...Name two bodies of water on which Laura Ingalls Wilder lived as a child...