01639cam a2200277 4500 74281255 TxAuBib 20110416120000.0 101102s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010044960 9781594487804 alk. paper $25.95 1594487804 alk. paper $25.95 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP UPZ BKL ABG B9F TxAuBib McClure, Wendy. The Wilder life : my adventures in the lost world of Little house on the prairie / Wendy McClure. New York, N.Y. : Riverhead Books, 2011. 336 p. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-336) and index. Our past life -- Whose woods these are -- Going to town -- Good girls and golden curls -- There is a happy land far, far away -- The way home -- There won't be horses -- Fragments of a dream -- Anywhere East or South -- The road back -- Be it enacted -- Unremembered. In this funny and thoughtful guide to a romanticized version of the American expansion west, children's book editor and memoirist McClure (I'm Not the New Me) attempts to recapture her childhood vision of "Laura World" (i.e., the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House books about an 1880s pioneer family). 20110425. Wilder, Laura Ingalls 1867-1957 Appreciation. McClure, Wendy. Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 Little house on the prairie. Frontier and pioneer life.