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Subject: Question someone had

Author:
Jill

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Date Posted: 21:53:50 02/06/06 Mon
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I posted this on the regular message board but I don't know if anyone had a chance to read it.

It's regarding the information LIW put in her books being the truth just not all of it.

In A Little House Sampler under Laura's Book Fair Speech it says:

Every story in this novel, all the circumstances, each incident are true. All I have told is true but it is not the whole truth. There were some stories I wanted to tell but would not be responsible for putting in a book for children, even though I knew them as a child.

Then it goes on to mention the Benders. She even says she saw Kate Bender standing in the doorway but they did not stop as they couldn't afford to stop there. I thought I read in Zochert's book Laura that LIW's wasn't in Kansas at the same time as the Bender's but now that I am trying to find it I can't.

There's also mention of the family of children that frozen to death in a blizzard in Plum Creek.

Also remember when Pa and Ma were traveling someone by cover wagon with Jack and they came across some individuals who I believe had their horses stolen because they didn't have a dog to protect them.
Well I was reading On the Way Home and came across the part where Laura finds a stray dog and ends up keeping it. I was wondering why they went on a wagon trip without a dog. Do you think it was because they were traveling with another family, because towns were more populated so maybe more protection, or that dogs weren't common out west to begin with?

Sorry for rambling on on various topics.

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