Readers around the world know and love Laura, the little girl born in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and raised in covered wagons and on wide open prairies. Now Little House fans can learn more about "Half-pint" in this, the first picture book biography book of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
With a simple, glowing text by noted historian and Little House scholar William Anderson, and glorious paintings by Dan Andreasen, Pioneer Girl is a very special portrait of a writer whose classic books and poineer adventures have made her one of the most popular...
The pioneer spirit lives on...
Readers around the world know and love Laura, the little girl born in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and raised in...
South Dakota is home to an endless supply of American history and Americana. Did you know the world's largest drug store calls Wall, SD home? Or how about the triceratops was one of the state's earliest settlers? What about the prairie the Ingalls family called home? De Smet. Also in South Dakota! The answers to all of these and many more are is the latest Sleeping Bear Press A to Z state exploration - "M is for Mount Rushmore: A South Dakota Alphabet." The state's charm and significance in American folklore goes beyond those four presidents' wonderful mugs and...
Illustrated by Cheryl Harness
South Dakota is home to an endless supply of American history and Americana. Did you know the world's largest drug sto...
The author had already spent ten years compiling the information that went into this history when the first volume was published. Upon its completion he declared the work to be, and his contemporaries agreed, the most complete of its kind ever assembled. The rich Scottish heritage can be successfully traced thanks to the practice of bestowing hereditary surnames, many of which found a permanent record in the many charters and other public deeds which still exist today. One of the objects of this series is to not only explain the origin of these surnames but to deliver an account of the...
The author had already spent ten years compiling the information that went into this history when the first volume was published. Upon its completion ...