Episode 12: Old-timers remember the real Laura Ingalls Wilder Culture Wars with Jonathon Van Maren

Jonathon Van Maren speaks to several people who knew the real Laura Ingalls Wilder, Almanzo Wilder, and Rose Wilder Lane--decades ago, when the Wilders lived in Mansfield, Missouri. This podcast began as research for a review of Caroline Fraser's new book Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder: https://thebridgehead.ca/2019/09/09/what-you-didnt-know-about-the-real-laura-ingalls-wilder/