[pnut22]

My favorite book of The Little House series. Wilder describes weather unlike I have ever seen in my 67 years on earth.

[SunkenCiv]

In my hometown, some of the older houses used to have doors on the second storeys, from the days before snowplows, and in remembrance of the 19th c winters.

[SunkenCiv]

I was trying to find one quote of LIW in particular, an exchange with a neighbor girl about how cold it had been the previous night. Couldn’t come up with it, or I should say, Google couldn’t. LIW was targeted by the Cancel Culture, so...

[hanamizu]

My favorite book of The Little House series. Wilder describes weather unlike I have ever seen in my 67 years on earth.

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I’ve read this to my students on several occasions and recommended it often. How tough and self-reliant people had to be back then is nothing short of amazing. My grandmother was alive (but only 1) during that winter. She was in Iowa.

[meowmeow]

I loved that Little House book, too! Liked the part where the Indian shows up at the general store and tells the town’s men that every 7 years is a bad winter and 7 times the 7th year is the worst...so all the Indians are headed out! Of course the settlers stay and nearly starve to death.

[PA Presbyterian]

It’s my favorite Wilder book, too. The family facing starvation, almost freezing to death in their house as they sat before a fire hour after hour twisting grass into stubs that could be used for fuel; storms coming one after another, darkening the interior of the house as they shut out the light. One historian has said that that book was the most accurate portrayal of the conditions that winter that you can find. Not the least bit sentimental—just a harrowing story of hardship and survival. I’d recommend it to anyone. The syrupy Michael Landon thing on television was a joke.