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The Prairie Agenda; The Hidden History of the Tomboy; Road Trip

Mothers who read aloud from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie (1935) and its sequels may believe they are spoon-feeding their children the books' timeless frontier values — but an antigovernment agenda? It's not impossible, says Anita Clair Fellman in Little House,...

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