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BACK ISSUE PACKAGES -- Save shipping costs by ordering multiple copies at once:
NEW! Multi-pack of first eight issues: Volume 1, issue 1 (Summer 2002) through Volume 4, Issue 2 (Winter 2005-2006)
Purchased singly this package of back issues would cost over $40. By combining shipping and handling you can have all eight issues (seven six-page issues plus one four-page issue) in one package. See below for individual issue descriptions.
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SINGLE ISSUES ONLY
Volume 5, issue 2 (Winter 2006-2007) six pages
Ice harvesting history; 19th-century life in the sod; Little House Cookbook anniversary; review of Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder; Did Laura have false teeth?
$5.50
Volume 5, issue 1 (Summer 2006) six pages
All about “those new-fangled name cards”; update on the next installment of the Little House® “soundtrack”; a new opinion column called “Wilder Possibilities”; finding Laura’s pathway to home on Rocky Ridge; a letter from the editor and publisher; what Bruce Springsteen has to do with Little House®; an Ingalls homestead you shouldn’t visit; a collection of little known facts about Laura, Rose, and the Little House® series; and complete listing of homesite events.
$5.50
Volume 4, issue 2 (Winter 2005-2006) six pages
Uncle Tom Quiner's journey into the Black Hills is revisited using non-Little House® sources, and the resulting article contains a newly discovered photo of Uncle Tom; musicologist Dale Cockrell tells how "Happy Land," essentially a soundtrack to the Little House® books, came to be; a Laura fan and essayist ponders her life in terms of what Ma Ingalls would do; "Little House"® mentions by Lemony Snicket; an interview with The Wilders, a contemporary old-time acoustic band that plays songs from Laura's time; a review of De Smet's Laura-related event from Summer 2005; and complete listings of homesite events.
$5.50
Volume 4, issue 1 (Summer 2005) six pages
A Laura fan in the medical field investigates the cause of Mary's blindness; full-color pictures of the annual June festival in Independence; a review of "Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie," ABC's 2005 miniseries; the story behind the bra named after LIW, plus a photo; information on subscribing to homesite museum newsletters, plus how to become a member; review of The Children's Blizzard, a book about 1880s blizzards in South Dakota and surrounding areas; tracking down the bell Pa helped to buy in On the Banks of Plum Creek; and complete listings of 2005's homesite events.
$5.50
Volume 3, issue 2 (Winter 2004-2005) six pages
A factual look at the "Hard Winter" of 1880-1881, as part of our continuing series on Laura's life in a historical context; photographs and description of a pre-restoration visit to the Wilder home in Malone; a feature on Laura's visit to San Francisco (told about in West from Home); a heartwarming story of organ donation at a homesite museum; Cap Garland -- did he really save DeSmet?; a look at Walnut Grove's 30th Anniversary Celebration; and complete listings of 2005's homesite events.
$5.50
Volume 3, issue 1 (Summer 2004) six pages
A historical look at the grasshopper plagues of the 1870s Midwest that Laura recounted in On the Banks of Plum Creek; an interview with renowned LIW biographer William T. Anderson; an LIW children's entertainer shares her experiences performing with a real pig's bladder; a review of Prairie Girl, Anderson's new juvenile biography on LIW; the history of an annual Gingerbread Sociable in LIW's honor at a library in California; bidding farewell to Burr Oak, Iowa's longtime director; and complete listings of 2004's homesite events.
$5.50
Volume 2, issue 2 (Winter 2003-2004) six pages
feature plus compelling photos of the Almanzo Wilder Farm; an in-depth look at the South Dakota tornadoes in the 1880s that lend credence to the storms in These Happy Golden Years; a synopsis of Ingalls Homestead's first "Teachers' Day"; review of Old Town in the Green Groves, a controversial "new" book about Laura's years in Burr Oak, IA; FAQs on Laura's manuscript "Pioneer Girl"
$5.50
Volume 2, issue 1 (Summer 2003) six pages
In-depth look at Little House® Site Tours; feature on June Silliman, "Dear Laura" on the Web site for the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum; review of the compendium of letters between Rose Wilder Lane and Dorothy Thompson, 25 Years of Friendship; update on Burr Oak, IA's fundraising
$5.50
Volume 1, issue 2 (Winter 2002-2003) six pages
an interview with the man who plays Pa's fiddle at events in Mansfield, Missouri; groundbreaking research on Mary Power; a look at the latest grant-funded changes to the Independence, Kansas homesite; how one Laura fan tracked down a log building in Colorado that was dedicated to and named after Rose Wilder Lane
$5.50
Volume 1, issue 1 (Summer 2002) four pages
advice on how to avoid eBay scams on LIW merchandise; a news story recounting a conference on current, brand-new LIW research from a conference held in DeSmet in 2001; a feature on Walnut Grove; an extensive look at Ingalls Homestead, Laura's newest "homesite" in DeSmet, and an interview with its owners, the Sullivan family
$4.50