Wilder on the Prairie: Recent Episodes
Annie Kontor
The only podcast that talks about all things Laura Ingalls Wilder, one "Little House" book at a time.
Episode 132
By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 23, "On the Pilgrim Way"
Join us this week as we discuss "Lend a Helping Hand", Rev. Alden in the late 1870s, Rev. Stewart Sheldon, Huron South Dakota, the Home Missionary Society, the word "repined", brown sugar syrup, "receipts" vs. "recipes", Jean Pierre de Smet, and "baching".
Episode 131
ch 31 By the Shores of Silver Lake "Happy Winter Days"
Join us as we discuss 1880 history in context, Yankton South Dakota, The New York Ledger, continued stories (serials), "Gypsy's Warning", "When I Was One and Twenty, Nell", "Billy Boy", "Camptown Races", "Three Blind Mice", "Nelly Was a Lady (Last Night She Died)", "Ben Bolt", "Oft in the Stilly Night", and "Banks O'Doon".
Episode 130
Ch. 21 By the Shores of Silver Lake "Merry Christmas"
Join us as we discuss setting the Christmas table, wristlets, "gathers", cheesecloth, codfish gravy, where did the cream come from?, "plenty more down in a cellar in a teacup", onion stuffing, "Jumping Jehosephat!", and the Boasts living in the surveyor's office just for the winter.
Episode 129
ch 20 By the Shores of SIlver Lake "The Night Before Christmas"
Join us this week as we discuss Ella Peck Boast, the definitions of "parbroil" and "raw-fry", claim jumpers, the ranges of voice types, and "Merry, Merry Christmas Everywhere".
Episode 128
Ch. 19 by the Shores of Silver Lake "Christmas Eve"
Join us as we discuss the scrap bag, jackrabbits, cornmeal mush, "Down the River on the Ohio", "Why Chime the Bells So Merrily", "Jingle Bells", "Mountain of the Lord", and "Gentle Words and Loving Smiles".
Episode 127
By the Shores of Silver Lake, chapter 18 "Pa Finds the Homestead"
Join us this week as we discuss going 10 miles in the snow, buffalo wolf tracks, wolf life spans, pack sizes, and Pa's quarter section.
Episode 126
By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 17 "Wolves on Silver Lake"
Join us this week as we discuss where their shoes came from (?), whether wolves are nocturnal, and flatirons.
Episode 125
By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 16 "Winter Days"
Join us this week as we discuss muskrats in South Dakota, the history of checkers, and the word "immoderately".
Episode 124
By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 15 "The Last Man Out"
Join us this week as we discuss Horace G. Woodworth, the "prairie cure" for consumption, buffalo wolves, Pa's prediction of Dakota winters, "Hail, Columbia!", "Highland Mary", "Coming through the Rye", "I'm Mrs. Jinks of Madison Square", the polka and the waltz.
Episode 123
Ch. 14 in By the Shores of Silver Lake "The Surveyor's House"
Join us as we discuss gables, the history of canned food, the location of Brookings, "Mary of the Wild Moor", and "Paddle Your Own Canoe".
Episode 122
By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 13 "Breaking Camp"
Join us this week as we discuss "Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid (Nobody Asked You", Lena's ultimate fate, Jean's fate, Pa seeing in shades of grey, Brookings South Dakota, Robery Abey Boast, and what a sherriff did in the late 1800s.
Episode 121
Chapter 12 of By the Shores of Silver Lake "Wings Over Silver Lake"
Join us this week as we discuss brant, redheads, bluebills, canvasbacks, teals, mudhens, hell-divers, swans in South Dakota, Uncle Henry, Louisa, and Charley's fate, Pa earned $300, and the Ingalls girls becoming teachers.
Episode 120
By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 11 "Pay Day"
Join us this week as we discuss Laura helping Pa with haying?, $1,000 in cash, Pa's revolver, rifle, and shotgun.
Episode 119
By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 10 "The Wonderdul Afternoon"
Join us this week as we discuss "A Life on the Ocean Wave", "Buy a Broom", Ma's opinion of Lena, Fresno scrapers, and Mary not supporting Laura's ventures.
Episode 118
By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 9 "Horse Thieves"
Join us this week as we discuss mashed potato cakes, bushwhack, brushing your hair 100 strokes a night, Ma stroking Laura's hair, and clearing up the confusion for this chapter.
Episode 117
By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 8 "Silver Lake"
Join us this week as the discuss seagulls in South Dakota, the Big Slough, what graders do, bedlam, ticking mattresses, where did Mary's rocking chair come from?, Stebbins' camp, pelicans in South Dakota, quonking, purple buffalo bean pods/ground plums/buffalo plums, and Mary laughing.
Episode 116
By the Shores of Silver Lake chapter 7 "Where the West Begins"
Join us this week as we discuss the Big Sioux River, buffalo wallows, the 1800s buffalo population, "Uncle Sam's Farm", the James River, and where is Aunt Polly?
Episode 115
By the Shores of Silver Lake, chapter 6 "The Black Ponies"
Join us this week as we discuss the difference between ponies and horses, cooking for 46 people 3 times a day, what the washing exactly was they were hiring out?, hames and traces and whippletrees, "Beware!", "A Railroad Man for Me", and the character of Lizzie marrying at 13.
Episode 114
By the Shores of Silver Lake, ch. 5 "Railroad Camp"
Join us this week as we discuss Laura preferring old-fashioned travel, "teamsters", "shanty", "peaked", and Ma and Laura cleaned their lunch site.
Episode 113
By the Shores of Silver Lake, chapter 4 "End of the Rails"
Join us this week as we discuss the role of firemen, "There Is a Happy Land", Mary's sensitive fingers, and the cost of the meal.
Episode 112
By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 3 "Riding in the Cars"
Join us this week as we discuss starching clothes, lawn dresses, lillies of the valley, Tracy, MN, how fast trains went, and the roles of brakemen.
Episode 111
By the Shores of Silver Lake, ch. 2 "Grown Up". Join us this week as we discuss 1939, 1879, hardtack, losing Jack the bulldog, Laura crying, Laura growing up at 12? At 10?
Episode 110
By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 1 "Unexpected Visitor"
Join us this week as we discuss Burr Oak, Iowa, scarlet fever, Docia (Ingalls) Forbes, the Homestead Act of 1862, Aunt Ruby Ingalls, Uncle Peter Ingalls, Uncle Henry Quiner, and Cousin Charley.
Episode 109
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 41 "Christmas Eve"
Join us this week as we discuss rosin, "Charlie He's a Dandy", rollicking, and "Lily Dale".
Episode 108
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 40 "The Fourth Day."
Join us this week as we discuss not doing the housework, the word "shamble", the whole family crying, bean broth, the $10 buffalo coat, "freeze the nose off a brass monkey", the word "gully", and oyster crackers.
Episode 107
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 39 "The Third Day"
Join us this week as we discuss cat's cradle.
Episode 106
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 38 "The Day of Games"
Join us this week as we discuss waking up snowy, cornmeal mush, the significance of the red-checked tablecloth, and little girls crying.
Episode 105
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 37 "The Long Blizzard"
Join us this week as we discuss overcoats, the mysterious clock on the shelf, personifying the blizzard, Pa's jumper, the narrative shift to Ma, "Bean Porridge Hot", and the ball of fires coming down the chimney.
Episode 104
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 36 "Prairie Winter"
Join us this week as we discuss "scudding", Pa wanting to go West, a bear's track quilt, "Jesus Holds My Hand" and "Sweet Sabbath School."
Episode 103
Banks of Plum Creek ch. 35 "Keeping House"
Join us this week as we discuss beaver in Minnesota, Pa's "itching foot", shawl pins, Laura's use of onomatopoeia.
Episode 102
Banks of Plum Creek ch. 34 "Marks on the Slate"
Join us this week as we discuss lard and beeswax as a salve, turnips, slate pencils, and the definition of "pell mell."
Episode 101
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 33 "Wheels of Fire"
Join us this week as we discuss ragweed, eastern cottonwood, and Spot having a calf!
EPISODE 100!!!
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 32 "Grasshoppers Walking"
Join us this week as we discuss bobsleds and when the locust know it's time to go west.
Episode 99
Chapter 31 On the Banks of Plum Creek "Surprise"
Join us this week as we discuss cosy vs. cozy, muskrat, otter, and mink in Minnesota, what a muffler is, Carrie's china dog, Laura's jewel box, and what a muff is.
Episode 98
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 30 "Going to Town"
Join us this week as we discuss pioneer thrift, flannel, gilt, Nellie's manners (or lack thereof), navy beans, challis, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", "The Girl I Left behind Me", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Swanee River", and "Home Sweet Home".
Episode 97
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 29 "The Darkest Hour Is Just before Dawn"
Join us this week as we discuss Laura's foot pain, Anna misbehaving, Ma scolding Laura about Charlotte, comforters, and inheriting sibiling's clothes.
Episode 96
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 28 "The Letter"
Join us this week as we discuss hairpins and how much Pa was earning in eastern Minnesota.
Episode 95
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 27 "Rain".
Join us this week as we talk about dogs aging, dustdevils, the Nelsons' house, Exodus 10, heat rash, and what underwaists are.
Episode 94
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 26 "Grasshopper Eggs"
Join us this week as we discuss grasshopper eggs, making cottage cheese, "All the Blue Bonnets Are over the Border," "The Campbells Are Coming Hurrah!" and "Life Let Us Cherish."
Episode 93
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 25 "The Glittering Cloud"
Join us this week as we discuss lizards panting, $1,080 per acre of wheat, pullets, "no great loss without some gain", and the Grasshopper Plague of 1874.
Episode 92
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 24 "Going to Church"
Join us this week as we discuss the Congregational Church, Edward Alden, shirrings, Ma's gold pin, "Wait from the Wagon", "There Is a Happy Land", John 11:35, "Jerusalem the Golden", and "Pa's bell" is still in Walnut Grove.
Episode 91
On the Banks of Plum Creek, ch. 23 "Country Party"
Join us this week as we talk about vanity cakes, Ma's patience, the Ingalls' chickens, and the definition of "knoll."
Episode 90
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 22 "Town Party"
Join us this week as we discuss velocipedes, china dolls, talking dolls, and Mother Goose.
Episode 89
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 21 "Nellie Oleson."
Join us this week as we discuss the value of money to the Ingalls, the interactions with the Oleson family, ring-around-the-rosie, "Uncle John Is Sick Abed", and Nellie Owens.
Episode 88
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 20 "School"
Join us this week as we discuss the definition of "sprigged", which readers the girls would have used, blue herons, snipes, who Laura and Mary's friends were, and Miss Eva Beadle.
Episode 87
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 19 "The Fish Trap"
Join us this week as we discuss crape, to "cipher", buffalo fish, pickerels, and bullheads.
Episode 86
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 18 "The Old Crab and the Bloodsuckers." Join us this week as we discuss boughten brooms, minnows, crabs/crawfish, and LEECHES.
Episode 85
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 17 "Moving In"
Join us this week as we discuss Pa and Laura's secret, Pa's impulsiveness, curtains = a feeling of home, the Ingalls' library, and Ma's china shepherdess.
Episode 84
On the Banks of Plum Creek, ch. 16 "The Wonderful House." Join us this week as we discuss Sam and David's names, harrowing, sorrel, the definition of "boughten", lean-tos, tar paper, and P A T 1770.
Episode 83
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 15 "The Footbridge"
Join us this week as we compare the text to the original "Pioneer Girl" book text.
Episode 82
Chapter 14 of On the Banks of Plum Creek "Spring Freshet"
Join us this week as we discuss the definition of "freshet", the origin of "jiminey crickets", and "it's raining fishhooks and hammer handles".
Episode 81
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 13 "Merry Christmas"
Please join us this week as we discuss "Millbank", button strings, and the word "flutterbudget".
Episode 80
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 12 "The Christmas Horses"
Join us this week as we discuss three (or five) grains of parched corn at Thanksgiving, the origin of Santa coming down the chimney, and Carrie's first words in the book.
Episode 79
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 11 "Runaway"
Join us this week and we discuss chapter continuity, chapter illustrations, Ma's face turning grey, and horehound candy.
Episode 78
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 10 "Cattle in the Hay"
Join us this week as we discuss Laura and Mary's ages in the prairieverse, using paper curlers in hair, challis fabric, ox goads, corn dodgers, and Johnnie Johnson in the TV show.
Episode 77
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 9 "Grasshopper Weather"
Join us this week as we discuss wanting candy for a good wheat crop, prunes vs. plums, what a "bole" is, different types of plums, what frost plums are, and what "grasshopper weather" really is.
Episode 76
On the Banks of Plum Creek, ch. 8 - "Straw Stack"
Join us this week as we discuss scythes, threshing machines, chaff, straw vs. hay, what wheat kernels taste like, and why Pa's back quivered.
Episode 75
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 7 "Ox on the Roof"
Join us this week as we discuss what makes bulls angry.
Episode 74
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 6, "Wreath of Roses"
Join us this week as we discuss butterfly wings, Eleck Nelson, cud, milking cows, the definition of "milch", and the name "Reet".
Episode 73
"On the Banks of Plum Creek" ch 5 - "The Strange Animal"
Join us this week as we discuss black-eyed Susans, goldenrod, badgers, and muslin.
Episode 72
"On the Banks of Plums Creek" chapter 4 "Deep Water"
Join us this week as we discuss thrift with clothing, plum thickets, and Laura's love of danger.
Episode 71
Chapter 3 On the Banks of Plum Creek "Flags and Rushes"
Join us this week as we discuss rushes, blue flags (irises), bumble bees, dragonflys, and water striders.
Episode 70
On the Banks of Plum Creek, ch. 2 "The House in the Ground"
Join us this week as we discuss the Ingalls' family self-sufficiency, willows, morning glories, the dimensions of the dugout, Ma's insistence on domesticity, and sod houses.
Join us this week as we discuss the world in 1937 (the date of publication), the Ingalls' journey to Minnesota, and preemption claims.
Episode 68
Little House on the Prairie, chapter 26 "Going Out"
Join us this week as we discuss the definition of "chirrup", capital punishment for stealing horses, the definition of "tenderfeet", why Laura included the couple whose horses were stolen, "O Susanna", "Dixie", "Battle Cry of Freedom", "Gumtree Canoe", and the upcoming season hiatus.
Episode 67
Little House on the Prairie chaper 25, "Soliders"
Join us this week as we discuss curlews, kildeers, sandpipers, growing beans, Pa getting angry, the real reason the Ingalls left Kansas, how big the calf would have been, and "there is no great loss without some small gain."
Episode 66
Little House on the Prairie, chapter 24 "Indians Ride Away"
Join us this week as we discuss what frogs really say, frogs native to Kansas, Pa disciplining Jack, bay-colored horses, and Laura wanting the baby in the basket.
Episode 65
Little House on the Prairie chapter 23, "Indian War Cry"
Join us this week as we discuss the chapter's tone, trimming dogs' nails, stockades, and the identity of Soldat du Chêne.
Episode 64
Little House on the Prairie, chapter 22 "The Prairie Fire"
Join us this week as we discuss backfires, 13-lined ground squirrel/gopher holes, the definition of "devilment", Fort Gibson (OK), and buffalo movement patterns.
Episode 63
Little House on the Prairie, chapter 21 "Indian Jamboree
Join us this week as we discuss hopscotch, Mary's age in the narrative, division of chores between Laura and Mary, seed potatoes, blouses, headbands, plows, and watermelon seeds.
Episode 62
Little House on the Prairie, chapter 20 "A Scream in the Night"
Join us this week as we discuss "Patty Cake", "Hide the Thumble", "Bean Porridge Hot", strap-ears, panthers in Kansas, and bootjacks.
Episode 61
Little House on the Prairie, chapter 19 "Mr. Edwards Meets Santa Claus"
Join us this week as we discuss "to scrooge", Onion Creek, razorbacks, and cornshuck beds.
Episode 60
Little House on the Prairie, chapter 18 "The Tall Indian"
Join us this week as we discuss northers, scalplocks, the origin of "how", speaking to someone whose language you don't understand, the Osage experience with French, mink, and "The Blue Junaita".
Episode 59
Little House on the Prairie, chapter 17 "Pa Goes to Town"
Join us this week as we talk about picket-pins, the Dakota Wars, shutters, and "There Is a Happy Land".
Episode 58
Little House on the Prairie chapter 16, "Fire in the Chimney"
Join us this week as we discuss buffalo grass, curing hay, geese flying in Vs, "Bye Baby Bunting", and "Green Grow the Laurels".
Episode 57
Little House on the Prairie, chapter 15 "Fever n' Ague"
Join us this week as we learn how to pronounce "ague" and what it means, when blackberries are ripe, Laura crying, Dr. George Tann, watermelons, the phrase "since Hector was a pup", quinine, and Ma's gold pin.
Episode 56
Little House on the Prairie chapter 14, "Indian Camp"
Join us this week as we discuss buckbrush, the definition of "ox-eyed", Osage lodges, and what Osage women wore.
Episode 55
Little House on the Prairie chapter 13 "Texas Longhorns"
Join us this week as we talk about Fort Dodge, Kansas (or Iowa?), chaps, Texas longhorns, "by the Great Horned Spoon", and whippoorwills.
Episode 54
Little House on the Prairie, chapter 12 "Fresh Water to Drink"
Join us this week as we talk about straw ticks, rope beds, goose feather pillows, spades, the (un)strong language of Mr. Scott, the dichotomy of Laura and Mary, windlasses, a rare time when Ma cries, carbon monoxide, and towsacks.
Episode 53
Little House on the Prairie chapter 11, "Indians in the House"
Join us this week as we discuss dog eye colors, screaming in whispers, active Laura vs. passive Mary, skunks, cornbread, and the Osage Nation.
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Chapter 10 "A Roof and a Floor"
Join us this week as we discuss garter snakes, Laura not wearing a sunbonnet, the shepherdess as home, and what was hanging in the windows before glass windows?
Episode 51
Little House on the Prairie, chapter 9 "The Fire on the Hearth"
Join us today as we discuss larkspur, poisonous snakes in Kansas, bear grease in Pa's hair, stick-and-daub, and the little china shepherdess.
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Chapter 8, "Two Stout Doors"
Join us this week as we discuss prairie chicken hash and building the doors.
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Chapter 7 "The Wolf Pack"
Join us this week as we talk about horse gestation, mules, grey wolves, wolf pack sizes, the Scott family, pioneer cabin sizes, Great Plains (buffalo) wolves, and the word "scringe".
Episode 48
Little House on the Prairie Chapter 6 "Moving In"
Join us this week as we talk about scalawgs, a puncheon floor, dimensions of the log cabin, "Roll on Silver Moon".
Episode 47
Little House on the Prairie, chapter 5 "The House on the Prairie"
Join us this week as we discuss the Verdigris River, Cuba (New York) and the Seneca tribe, to chink cracks, Mr. Edwards, "I Am a Gypsy King", "The Devil's Hornpipe", "Old Dan Tucker", and nightingales.
Episode 46
Little House on the Prairie, Chapter 4 "Prairie Day"
Join us this week as we discuss dickcissels, how far the Ingalls lived from Independence, prairie chickens, the definition of "to kilt", striped gophers, Laura's treatment of Native Americans in this novel, sadirons, phoebe birds, and Daisy Deane.
Episode 45
Little House on the Prairie, Chapter 3 "Camp on the High Prairie"
Join us this week as we discuss the high prairie, grinding coffee, bake ovens, salt pork, wolves, lynx, nightcaps, and what kind of bulldog Jack really was.
Episode 44
Little House on the Prairie Chapter 2 "Crossing the Creek"
Join us this week as we discuss fords, when fawning season is, why Laura had to wear a blanket crossing the creek, running gear, American bulldogs swimming, and mustangs.
Episode 43
Chapter 1 "Going West"
Join us this week as we discuss the Ingalls family in both Missouri and Kansas, Pa's Wisconsin land in 2022 dollars, dimensions of a prairie schooner, Laura's grandparents and double cousins, molasses, the dimensions of Lake Pepin, when this ice cracks on Lake Pepin, the definition of Indian Territory, crossing the Missouri River, jackrabbits, and wagon wheel tracks you can still see in the American West.
Episode 42
Farmer Boy Chapter 29 "Farmer Boy"
Join us this week as we discuss wheelwrights, apprenticeship in the 1800s, truckle, and Libertarians.
Episode 41
Farmer Boy Chapter 28 "Mr. Thompson's Pocket Book"
In today's episode we discuss hay balers, capstans, money conversions, pocketbooks, shinny, hames, livery stables, and if Mr. Paddock was a real person.
Episode 40
Farmer Boy Chapter 27 "Wood Hauling"
Join us this week as we discuss yearlings, Almanzo's age, feather stitching, cant poles, balky, swearing, and corded wood.
Episode 39
Farmer Boy Chapter 26 "Christmas"
Join us as we discuss the extended Wilder Family, switches, scouring bricks, mince pies, dampers, horehound candy, garnets, paring potatoes, and the word "dast".
Episode 38
Farmer Boy Chapter 25 "Threshing"
Join us this week as we discuss flails, ironwood, fanning mills, eating wheat kernels, and how big a bushel is.
Episode 37
Farmer Boy Chapter 24 "The Little Bobsled"
Join us this week as we discuss bobsleds, a tree being 5" through, the definition of "hew", the pliability of wood, and Laurapalooza 2022.
Episode 36, Farmer Boy Chapter 23 "Cobbler"
Join us this week as we discuss the Malone Academy, basting, boughten, carpetbags, husking pegs, lasts, awls, and bespoke shoes.
Farmer Boy chapter 22 "Fall of the Year"
Join us this week as we discuss beechnuts, why snow is "poor man's fertilizer", banking walls, saltpeter, and candlemaking.
Farmer Boy Chapter 21 "The County Fair"
Join us this week as we discuss 1866 money values in 2022, thoroughbred horses, Belgian horses, mules, Chester white pigs, succotash, sulkies, and the world's record for running a mile.
Farmer Boy chapter 20, "Late Harvest" Join us this week as we discuss the harvest moon, the world's largest pumpkin, how big a hogshead is, the physics of potatoes exploding, and what a poultice is.
Farmer Boy Chapter 19 "Early Harvest"
Join us this week as we talk about timothy grass, swath(e), the difference between eastern and western meadlowlarks, egg nog, windrows, foreshadowing The Long Winter, a bucolic lifestyle and thrift, cutting oats with cradles, shocking oats, mauls, $250 in 1866 dollars, and bombazine.
Episode 31
Farmer Boy Chapter 18, "Keeping House"
Join us this week as we discuss Uncle Andrew Day, lap robes, how to pick a ripe melon, wabbling, watermlon rind preserves, what pigs should eat, hydrangeas, pound cakes, parlors, horsehair cloth, and what nots.
Farmer Boy Chapter 17 "Summer Time"
Join us this week as we discuss growing big pumpkins, pig prices, why you fish when it rains, speckled trout, Lake Chateaugay, black bears in New York State, and jelly vs. jam vs. preserves.
Episode 29
Chapter 16 "Independence Day"
Join us this week as we discuss French calico, the song "Yankee Doodle", downtown Malone, the "Star-Spangled Banner", how many stars on the Flag in 1866, pink lemonade, the word "lief", the value of a half dollar in 1866, sucking pigs, and the Great American Desert.
Episode 28
Farmer Boy Chapter 15 "Cold Snap"
This week we will dicuss carding wool, dyeing wool, planting pumpkins in May, planting corn and pumpkins together, how big an acre really is, 1866 crop yields, and saving freezing corn.
Ch. 14 "Sheep Sheering"
Join us this week as we talk about shearing sheep, sheep swimming, sheep butting, how long it takes to shear by hand, how often to shear, merino wool, and fleece weight.
Join us for a discussion of Chapter 13 of Farmer Boy, "The Strange Dog".
Topics for this episode include Morgan horses, horses' teeth, $200 in 2022 dollars, how much a Morgan horse is, setting the sponge for baking, and woodlots.
Farmer Boy Chapter 12 "The Tin Peddler"
This week we talk about rubbing down horses with clean cloths, Saranac New York, working exclusively with tin, trading rags, and a peddlars cart.
Farmer Boy Chapter 11 "Springtime"
Today we will discuss door sills, horse traces, furrows, the St. Lawrence River, pumphouses, lizards in New York (five-lined skinks), whistling girls, and Canada peas.
Chapter 10 "The Turn of the Year"
Today we discuss Scottish proverbs, winterberries, sugaring off, how big a bushel is, the railroad in Malone, how much $500 of 1866 dollars is in 2022, straw on the floors, and whitewashing.
Chapter 9 "Breaking in the Calves"
Join us as we discuss moosewood, gee and haw, oxen vs. cattle, Rocky Mountain oysters, augers, lynchpins, and sacré bleu!
Chapter 8 "Sunday"
Join us this week as we discuss currycombs, fullcloth, broadcloth, stock ties, merino wool, Uncle Wesley and Cousin Frank, how to make potato starch, the word "harrow", and apple pies with a slice of cheese.
Join us this week for chapter 7 of Farmer Boy entitled "Saturday Nights".
We discuss donuts, the Comanche, soft soap, shirts, and underwaists.
Chapter 6 "Filling the Ice House"
Join us this week as we discuss the Trout River, the French-Canadian population of Franklin County in 1860, crosscut saws, ice tongs, sawdust as insulation, apples and onions, and bird's nest pudding.
Chapter 5 "Birthday" Join us this week as we discuss Almanzo's true year of birth, yokes, barn jumpers, weaving, hanks of yarn, stanchions, and freezing your tongue to a flagpole.
Chapter 4 "Surprise" This week's episode covers primers, schoolhouse entries, and whips.
Chapter 3 "Winter Night"
In this week's episode, we discuss tallow, pannikins, hossocks, popcorn, and the Wilder "dialect".
Chapter 2 "Winter Evening" Join us this week as we talk about threshing floors, fanning mils, sheep folds, haymows, James Wilder, hoop skirts, Angelina Wilder, and air castles.
Welcome to the first chapter of "Farmer Boy", School Days!
In this chapter we will talk about the Wilder family, fullcloth, and Hardscrabble Hill.
"The Wonderful Machine"
This week's podcast discusses sumac, hubbard squash, hulled corn, threshing machines, and johnnycakes.
"Harvest"
This week we discuss Laura's cousin Charley, harvesting oats the old-fashioned way*, yellowjackets, and herbs for fevers.
Chapter 10 "Summertime"
Come with us as we discuss Laura's Uncle Henry, her neighbors the Petersons, the Huleatts, the Godey's Ladies Book, Aunt Lotty, polishing stoves, making cheese, "Old Grimes", and a grubbing hoe. Would Pa really not have been stung by bees while looking for honey?
"Going to Town"
Today our chapter covers hazel bushes, thimble flowers, grass flowers, jack knives, turkey red*, galluses, the "Roses Are Red" poem, and "Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home."
Chapter 8 "Dance at Grandpa's"
Today's topics covered include much of Pa's family (his parents and some of his siblings), hasty pudding, undergarments, darning socks, jewelry, "O You Buffalo Gals", "The Irish Washerwoman", salt-rising bread.
"The Sugar Snow"
Today's podcast episode discusses maple syrup production, milkpans, delaine fabric, basques and whalebone structuring in garments, and "I'm Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines".
"The Two Big Bears"
Today we talk bears, latched doors, shades of blue, bedtime prayers, and "My Sweet Kitty Wells".
Join us this week for Chapter 5 from "Little House in the Big Woods," "Sundays." We will explore what Laura could and couldn't do on Sundays, the story of Grandpa's Sled and the Pig, as well as several songs of the era.
Chapter 4 of Little House in the Big Woodsis "Christmas." Join us for a discussion on Christmas cooking, the Ingalls cousins, old-fashioned songs, and toys.
Chapter 3 "The Long Rifle"
Please join us this week as we discuss Pa cleaning his rifle, making bullets, and loading the rifle.
In today's podcast episode, we discuss bear meat, housekeeping in a log cabin, churning butter, patty pans, kerosene lanterns, and whether or not you can still find black panthers in Wiconsin today.
"Wilder on the Prairie" is the only podcast to cover all things Laura Ingalls Wilder, one "Little House" book at a time.
Join us this week as we discuss the animals found in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, the Ingalls' little house, and butchering time.
Introductory episode to "Wilder on the Prairie" Podcast. Contains podcast mission and brief introduction from podcast host, Annie Kontor.