How did rose wilder lane die
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Rose Wilder Lane and Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum houses the Rose Wilder Lane Papers, which document her extraordinary life as a journalist and an author, and reveal the important role she played in her later years formulating and promoting Libertarian ideas. Lane was also an early biographer of Herbert Hoover — she published The Making of Herbert Hoover in 1920.
Lane was commissioned to write The Making of Herbert Hoover by Charles K. Field, editor of Sunset (a West Coast literary magazine) and a personal friend of Herbert Hoover. At the time, Hoover was contemplating a run for President in 1920, and Field wanted to help. Lane’s biography likely had little effect on the campaign, but Lane and Hoover continued for many years to correspond about topics of shared interest.
Lane’s papers also reveal her important role as the editor of the “Little House on the Prairie” books written by her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Wilder had only limited writing experience when she embarked
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Rose Wilder Lane, the Secret Behind the Little House Books
In 1931, 44-year-old Rose Wilder Lane saw a manuscript of a book called Pioneer Girl. It told the story of a homesteader during the great westward expansion, from Wisconsin across Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, the Dakota Territory and back again to Missouri.
Rose Wilder Lane
Rose had been flying high as one of the best paid journalists of her time and a world traveler who lived for a time in Albania. It had all come crashing down in 1929 with the stock market collapse.
Not only did the crash wipe her out financially, it wiped out her elderly parents’ savings. Worse, the market for her writing dried up in the Great Depression.
So Rose Wilder Land moved back to her parents’ farm in Mansfield, Mo., and tried to start over. Her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, gave her the chance. Pioneer Girl was the genesis of the children’s classic, Little House in the Big Woods, and the seven Little House books that followed.
The name Rose Wilder Lane did not appear as co-author on the books. She always downplayed he
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Rose Wilder Lane
American journalist, writer, and political theorist (1886–1968)
Rose Wilder Lane | |
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| Born | Rose Wilder (1886-12-05)December 5, 1886 De Smet, Dakota Territory, U.S. |
| Died | October 30, 1968(1968-10-30) (aged 81) Danbury, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, political theorist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1914–1965 |
| Notable works | The Discovery of Freedom |
| Spouse | Claire Gillette Lane (m. 1909; div. 1918) |
| Relatives | Laura Ingalls Wilder (mother) Almanzo Wilder (father) |
Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886 – October 30, 1968) was an American writer and daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Along with two other female writers, Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, Lane is one of the more influential advocates of the American libertarian movement.
Early life
Lane was the first child of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo Wilder and the only child of her parents to survive into adulthood. Her early years were a difficult time for her parents because of s
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