Today it is almost impossible to imagine what it would be like to live before the advent of the modern economy. The discovery of oil some 150 years ago largely made possible the many conveniences and wide array of manufactured products that are now taken for granted. Cheap fossil fuel also revolutionized food and farming.
The amount of people farming in the 2000s is dramatically smaller than it was around the time Laura Ingalls Wilder was growing up in 1870s America. The surplus of cereal crops that could be stored was an early form of money. Pa Ingalls in Little Town on the Prairie grows corn as a ‘cash crop,’ in which to pay his taxes and other expenses. Life lived on the land could be a fearful lottery, and the loss of whole crops by natural disaster, or simply nature itself, often plunged families into destitution.
Laura Ingalls Wilder on the Tragedies and Beauties of Frontier Life
Laura Ingalls Wilder published eight novels during her lifetime, as part of her Little House series. A last novel, seemingly abandoned, was published posthumously under the title of The First Four Years. Wilder wrote them with the express purpose of retelling for future generations what it was like to live on the frontier in 19th century America. The novels are written in an autobiographical style, with all the characters named after Wilder’s siblings and parents.
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