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Title: West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915 by Laura Ingalls Wilder ISBN: 0-06-440081-6 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 20 October, 1976 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting
Comment: This is a very sweet and interesting book. Laura is visiting Rose in San Francisco for a few months and writes letters to Manly to fill him in on all she is doing and seeing.
The letters are detailed and filled with much information about San Francisco at the time. This is very interesting since it was 1915 and the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition was in progress.
I was thrilled to read it as I can't seem to read enough about Laura and her entire family! This is another wonderful and interesting book with the spirited Laura Ingalls Wilder as the star!
Rating: 5
Summary: Sparkling recollection of San Francisco in 1915
Comment: Thank God this is still in print. Sure, lots of fans of the "Little House"
series will find this a charming alternative. But Laura Ingalls Wilder was
already an accomplished writer by this time, and her recorded impressions
during a family visit to her daughter and son-in-law during the 1915 Pan
Pacific International Exposition was a godsend for anyone who wants to know
of San Francisco history.
The city was devastated by the 1906 earthquake and fire; the PPIE
was a chance for the city's residents to show how quickly they could
recover and rebuild, and they put their souls into it. The city fairly
sparkled for the Exposition's visitors that summer. Wilder's letters home
to her husband were an accurate and very personable observance of the city
as it was. She described the big events as well as the telling little
details that made San Francisco unique among American cities. The photos
accompanying her letters add to the authenticity.
This is book not just a "niche gem" for Wilder fans, but also for
those who love San Francisco, and those who live history. Her record of a
vacation to the coast may've seemed to her like trivial family
correspondence, but for this native son of Baghdad by the Bay, her letters
were a vivid portrait of a time that will not be seen again. This is one of
the top ten historical recollections of a major, turn of the century
American city.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lively and colourful letters
Comment: This book compiles a group of wonderful letters written from Laura to Almanzo in 1915 while she was staying with her daughter Rose (now married) in Los Angeles. The letters are long and detailed, since she rather missed him and was also trying to give him the full experience as much as possible. As a result, this book is a feast for both fans of LIW's work and people with an interest in the culture of the period.
At this time, Laura is in her forties and has begun writing freelance for at least one magazine, but has not started on her famous Little House books yet. Her daughter is working entirely as a writer, particularly of serialised stories/biographies.
Warning: Anyone reading the Rose series by Roger Lea MacBride should leave this book until after they finish, as there are spoilers.
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Title: Laura Ingalls Wilder : A Biography by William Anderson ISBN: 0064461033 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: 30 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Laura's Album : A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson ISBN: 0060278420 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 30 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Little House (9 Books, Boxed Set) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams ISBN: 0064400409 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $62.91 |
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Title: The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams ISBN: 006440031X Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 14 October, 1953 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Laura : The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Donald Zochert ISBN: 0380016362 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1977 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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