Rocky Ridge Farm: arrival of Wilders, 3, 17–18, 72, 293; dairy cows, 18; financial success, 19; food produced, 59–60, 125, 131–32; house, 18, 300; name, 17, 19; orchard, 18, 19, 20–22, 59–60; story of, 17–19; water supply, 19, 66–68; woods, 18, 19, 51
Ruhl, Otto, 45–47
Ruralist Poultry Club, 107, 111
Russia: war with Poland, 248; woman suffrage, 150–51; World War I in, 146, 160. See also Soviet Union
Russian Forrest recipe, 39
Russian revolution, 119, 137, 150–51
Sabbath, 229
Salvation Army, 89–90
San Francisco: Chinatown, 55, 89–90; donations for French soldiers, 132–33; foreign residents, 55–56
San Francisco Exhibition (1915): Food Products Building, 37–39; Missouri exhibits, 41–47
San Marino, 166–67
Santa Claus, 63, 95, 132
Saturday Evening Post, 187, 197, 206
Saudi Arabia. See Arabia
Savings, Liberty Bonds, 147–48, 178–79
Schools. See Education
Schroeder, R. W., 221
Scott, Sir Walter, 238
Self-improvement, 101–3
Selfishness, 93–94, 104, 207, 208, 217, 275–76
Sells, Mrs., 144
Sewell, Mrs., 267
Sewing machines, 99
Shakespeare, William: As You Like It, 65; Hamlet, 290; home region, 237–39
Shale, 270
Shaw, George Bernard, Man and Superman, 265
Shelby, Mrs. James, 301
Shoes, 213
Show You Farm, 139–42
Sill, Edward Rowland, “The Fool’s Prayer,” 169–71
Simpich, Frederick, 227
Skelton, Mr., 110
Smith, D. S., 42
Smith, Mrs. D. S., 42
Smith, Homer, 301
Smithsonian Institution, 215
Social gatherings: clubs, 68–71, 74–75, 92–93, 191–92, 267; of farm families, 13, 26–27, 50–51, 74–75, 92; of farm women, 16; Friday night literary, 172–73
“Soldiers of the Soil” (Lane), 71, 76
South Dakota: blizzards, 311–12; droughts, 308; hard winters, 100–101, 236; prairies, 17–18
South Pole, 220
Soviet Union, national costumes, 310. See also Russia
Spanish adventurers, 73
Spanish American War, 153, 159
Springs, 46, 66–68, 293–94
Springtime, 107–8, 138, 266, 287–88
Steel, Mrs. Howe, 70
Steinman, Charles W., 43
Stratford-Upon-Avon, England, 238–39
Suffrage. See Woman suffrage
Sugar prices, 205
Suicides, child, 291
Swearing, 155–56
Switzerland: trees, 201; visitors from, 197–99, 291
Tact, 85–87, 169
Taxes, 234
Teachers, 301. See also Education
Telephones, 171, 176–77
Thankfulness, 90–91, 126, 263, 278–79, 292–93
Thanksgiving, 90–91, 126, 263, 268, 278, 292
Thayer, Eliza Jane Wilder, 6
Theater, 265
These Happy Golden Years (Wilder), 311–12
Thistledown, 112–13
Thompson, Dorothy, 306n
Thoughts, as things, 127–28
Thrift, 7, 178, 213
Time management, 106–7
“Tin Can Tourists,”286, 287
Transportation. See Airplanes; Automobiles; Roads
Travel: disappointment in, 56; journey of life, 57–58; of Rose Wilder Lane, 6, 225–26, 231–34, 239–40, 242–43, 245–46, 247; “Tin Can Tourists,”286, 287. See also San Francisco
Trees: apple, 18, 20–22; planting by roads, 80, 200–201; on Rocky Ridge Farm, 18; in Wright County, 293. See also Wood
Truck gardening, 283
Turkey (country), 227, 299
Turkeys, raising, 48, 117, 296, 302–5. See also Poultry
Unleavened Bread recipe, 41
Vacations, 197–98, 199, 230
Vaughan, Norman, 45
Vegetable gardening, 60, 134
Vestal, J. M., 301
Veterans: disabled, 297; pensions, 153–54
Vices, 52. See also Idleness
Voting rights. See Woman suffrage
War Industries Board, 193
War Savings Stamps, 147–48
Wartime. See World War I
Warwickshire, England, 237–39
Waste, eliminating, 61–62, 115, 178
Water: hydro-electric power, 197; on Rocky Ridge Farm, 19, 66–68; springs, 46, 66–68, 293–94; supplies on farms, 14–15, 23
Wealth, plans for future, 142–43
Weather: droughts, 88, 308–9; hard winters, 100–101, 236, 266
Weeks, Mr., 77
Westbrook, Joe, 296
Wheat, grinding in coffee mills, 100, 101
“Why I Should Like to Leave the Farm,” 241–42n
Wilbur, Ray Lyman, 168
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, “The World’s Need,”93
Wilder, Almanzo: columns with byline of, 17, 20; driving in South Dakota blizzard, 311–12; health, 3, 17–18; marriage, 5; move to Missouri, 3, 17–18, 72, 293; parents, 209–10
Wilder, Laura Ingalls: childhood memories, 90, 100–101, 118–19, 121–22, 187, 236, 287, 290; education, 4; management of farm, 5–6; marriage, 5; move to Missouri, 3, 17–18, 72, 293; personality, 6; relationship with Rose, 6, 7–8, 260; as teacher, 311–12. See also Rocky Ridge Farm
Wildflowers, 118–19, 253, 290
Williams, C. A., 75
Williams, Hattie, 75
Williams, J. E., 75
Wilson, Dr. and Mrs., 116–18, 296, 302–5
Wilson, Woodrow, 135, 137, 155, 164
Wilson Stock Farm, 115–18, 296, 302–5
Winters, hard, 100–101, 236, 266
Winter solstice, 94–95
Woman suffrage, 6–7, 64, 150–51, 181–82, 218–19
Women: clothing, 51, 108, 192; clubs, 16, 92–93, 191–92; factory work in wartime, 108, 115, 150, 179–80; meaning of World War I, 145–47; in military, 146, 247, 248; personal appearances, 27–29; political participation, 6–7, 181–82, 206–7, 246–48; Red Cross volunteers, 146–47, 245; social clubs, 13, 16; societal changes and, 149–51; unmarried, 149. See also City women; Farm women; Homemaking
Wood: as fuel, 51, 195–96, 266; lumber, 215, 216. See also Trees
Wood, Ray, 302
Work: attitudes toward, 25–26, 209–11, 217–18, 229–30, 256; of city women, 71, 108; going ahead in, 101–3; as labor of love, 255–56; labor-saving devices, 14, 23–24; pride in, 210, 230; value, 175–76. See also Farm work; Homemaking
World War I: allied nations, 146, 159–60, 162, 166–67, 186; beginning, 162; conditions following, 151, 202–3; as conflict of ideas, 148–49, 150, 155; deaths, 151; economic effects, 202–3, 205–6; end, 168; factory work of women, 108, 115, 150, 179–80; farm work of women, 108–9, 114–15, 132, 180–81; food production, 108–9, 114–15, 129, 148, 168, 203; French soldiers, 132–33, 160, 200; home front, 128–29, 135–36, 147–49, 168, 174, 178–79, 193, 203, 205–6; Liberty Bonds, 147–48, 178–79; meaning to women, 145–47; military volunteers, 120–21; peace terms, 186, 208; sacrifices, 135–36, 147, 148, 153–54, 168, 178; social effects, 159–60, 178, 179–80; solidarity feelings, 144–45; U.S. soldiers in Europe, 145, 147, 151, 155; U.S. war aims, 135, 148
Worry, 59
Wright, Silas, 294
Wright County, Mo.: businesses, 296; county fair, 279–80; description, 293–97; famous people from, 297; farms, 30–34, 115–18, 139–42, 249–53, 295, 296, 302–5; history, 294; mining, 296; roads, 78–80, 294; school fair, 300–302; schools, 6, 297, 300–302; towns, 294–95. See also Hartville; Mansfield; Rocky Ridge Farm
Yellowstone National Park, 188, 190
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