I've never read any other Wilder bios; I'm not a big bio reader, which is weird now that I think about it, hm. I am fascinated by how much this fascinated me, and how much it keeps poking me in the back of my head. therienne and mollyamory are both thoroughly sick of me listening to something about the current state of the world and saying "y'know, in that Wilder bio I just read..."
It existed for a long time just as her archival manuscript, but finally a few years ago the South Dakota Historical Society actually had it published as "Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography",
oooooh. I have not read it! Just seen the references to it in Prairie Fires. I bet that's the book I originally came across on Metafilter a few years back, which is what got me thinking "I should read that Wilder book", but then Prairie Fires was the one that came up when I eventually went looking.
Amazon has it at the same price for hardcover and kindle and your reasoning has swayed me toward the actual physical object. That is going on my Amazon wish list for later this year. \o/
And hey, thank you so much for the reminder of that blog! I remember the link on Metafilter, and was like 'oh nice I will read this later, and then Events happened and I forgot all about it.
Heh, that was me exactly. When I realized the Sparta guy was the same guy I facepalmed all over. I really dig his writing style, and his balance between historical accuracy vs. good film/cinematography/whatnot.
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It existed for a long time just as her archival manuscript, but finally a few years ago the South Dakota Historical Society actually had it published as "Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography",
oooooh. I have not read it! Just seen the references to it in Prairie Fires. I bet that's the book I originally came across on Metafilter a few years back, which is what got me thinking "I should read that Wilder book", but then Prairie Fires was the one that came up when I eventually went looking.
Amazon has it at the same price for hardcover and kindle and your reasoning has swayed me toward the actual physical object. That is going on my Amazon wish list for later this year. \o/
And hey, thank you so much for the reminder of that blog! I remember the link on Metafilter, and was like 'oh nice I will read this later, and then Events happened and I forgot all about it.
Heh, that was me exactly. When I realized the Sparta guy was the same guy I facepalmed all over. I really dig his writing style, and his balance between historical accuracy vs. good film/cinematography/whatnot.