Land of Laura: the Podcast about Laura Ingalls Wilder

Sallie Ketcham: "Whatever Happened to Baby Lane?"

The question has puzzled researchers for years: what happened with the baby Rose Wilder Lane lost early in her marriage to Gillette Lane? We first heard from Laura Inga

Who Really Was Dr. George Tann?

After attending the very first LauraPalooza conference in 2010 put on by the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association, researcher and educator Susan Thurlow p

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Land of Laura, the podcast about all things Laura Ingalls Wilder, is launching a Patreon. Joining the Land of Laura Patreon community helps support the podcast we all lov

Inside Rocky Ridge Farm: Interview with Michelle Underwood

Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in Mansfield, Missouri from 1894 until her death in 1957. Today, the farmhouse she and her husband, Almanzo, built, as well as the stone cottag

Libertarians on the Prairie — A Talk with Biographer Christine Woodside

Eddie Higgins, a researcher and friend of the Land of Laura podcast, interviews journalist and professor Christine Woodside. When Woodside set out to write a biography

Rose Wilder Lane as a Cartoon — artist and writer Peter Bagge talks about Credo, his graphic biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter

Peter Bagge has written graphic novels/biographies about three free-thinking, independent women living in the early to mid-twentieth century: birth control advocate Marga

Understanding the Assignment: Netflix's Little House on the Prairie

We've all been anticipating the launch of the first season of the 2026 version of Little House on the Prairie on Netflix. Was it going to be like the 1970s Michael Landon

We're Back! Teaser for Season 2

Sandra Hume is back to welcome you to Season 2 of Land of Laura. Find out what's on deck for the second season and what changes are in store for the only podcast around a

Trip and Rebecca Friendly: the New Little House on the Prairie on Netflix

In 1974, Ed Friendly created the Little House on the Prairie TV show with Michael Landon. Creative differences spurred Ed to leave the show early on, though he still prod

Land of Sandra: a Lifetime of Loving Laura

Author Nancy McCabe listened to several episodes of Land of Laura and heard the guests share their origin stories. She thought: what about Sandra Hume's origin story? I

Little House on the Prairie: How It All Began in Independence, Kansas

Historian Michelle Marie Martin, PhD, was with the Little House on the Prairie Museum at Independence, Kansas from2008-2015, the last four years as executive director of

Erin Blakemore, Part 2: Listening to Audiobooks of Little House on the Prairie Hits Different

Erin Blakemore is a journalist, historian, and author of the book The Heroine's Bookshelf. Here's part 2 of her interview where she details the magic of listening to the

Erin Blakemore: Listening to Audiobooks of Little House on the Prairie Hits Different

Erin Blakemore is a journalist, historian, and author of the book The Heroine's Bookshelf. Recently after brain surgery she turned to the the comfort of her beloved Littl

De Smet, South Dakota: Talking to Executive Director Mary Jo Wertz

With fully half of the books taking place there, De Smet, Dakota Territory — South Dakota today — is the pinnacle of Little House homesites. By the Shores of Silver Lake,

Eric Fairchild of De Smet B & B Prairie House Manor

What Laura Ingalls Wilder fan among us hasn't dreamed of living in De Smet, South Dakota? Eric Fairchild actually made that a reality when he and his partner took over Pr

"We'd Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover": All the Rose Wilder Lane Research You Could Want

Have you ever looked at one of Laura Ingalls Wilder's manuscripts? Or dug into Rose Wilder Lane's journal entries? Or read the letters Rose exchanged with her beloved "Ma

Laura Ingalls Gunn: Dresses, Decor, and the Spirit of the Ingalls

This week Land of Laura is thrilled to talk with ‪@LauraIngallsGunn‬. In the past few years, the interior designer has found herself increasingly seated behind her sewing

Laura Ingalls Wilder 101

Let the Hurricane Roar ... Missouri Ruralist ... the Rock House ... LauraPalooza ... Holtz ... homesite ... Burr Oak ... what is the significance of all these terms in th

Caroline Fraser: Author of Prairie Fires, Pulitzer Prize–winning Biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2018. Before writing Prairie Fires, author Caroline Fraser was selected

Solving a Rose Wilder Lane Mystery: Children of Ararat

Scholars have wondered for years about what happened to Rose Wilder Lane's "lost" Armenian book. Thanks to historian and author Ginger Pedersen, now they know. Dr. Mabel