If you belong to any online groups having to do with the real or TV Ingalls families , you might have noticed questions arising after Netflix dropped the Little House on the Prairie reboot. So let's get a few details straight. The Little House series of books was different from the true-life Ingalls family, a nd the original TV series was nothing like the true-life Ingalls family. The reboot is also not faithful to the book or real-life Ingalls family, but it was a little more faithful to both than the Michael Landon silliness. Here are some facts about the real Little House on the Prairie; let's get a few truth bombs out of the way. 1. Laura and Mary were toddlers, not spunky schoolkids In 1868–1869, when the family left the Big Woods of Wisconsin for the Kansas prairie, Laura was just two years old, and Mary was four. Because Laura was so young, she wasn't relying on her own vivid childhood memories when writing about their time in Kansas. Instead, she was reconstruct...
In which we discuss the life and times of Laura Ingalls Wilder, her family, and her friends.