but what is not as well-known about her is she was also the ghostwriter for her mother, laura ingalls wilder. the little house on the prairie series, the books, the television show many of us watched growing up were marketed as the true life stories of laura ingalls wilder as a young girl growing up on the american frontier whose families succeeded by dint of hard work, the strength of the nuclear family and, most importantly, with no help from the government . but the reality was, laura ingalls wilder did not write this books. her libertarian daughter did. and they were not true stories. laura made rough notes for the story but her daughter re-crafted them into libertarian parables. and they were misleading on many levels, but most importantly, the fact that the federal government through the homestead act and other initiatives to send the family to be there. the family was not a success. there story is one of mostly repeated disappointment and failure. but rose rewrote them a success stories to promote this individualistic libertarian he thousand. >> that is the cultural story but one of t

but what is not as well-known about her is she was also the ghostwriter for her mother, laura ingalls wilder the little house on the prairie series, the books, the television show many of us watched growing up were marketed as the true life stories of laura ingalls wilder as a young girl growing up on the american frontier whose families succeeded by dint of hard work, the strength of the nuclear family and, most importantly, with no help from the government . but the reality was, laura ingalls wilder did not write this books. her libertarian daughter did. and they were not true stories. laura made rough notes for the story but her daughter re-crafted them into libertarian parables. and they were misleading on many levels, but most importantly, the fact that the federal government through the homestead act and other initiatives to send the family to be there. the family was not a success. there story is one of mostly repeated disappointment and failure. but rose rewrote them a success stories to promote this individualistic libertarian he thousand. >> that is the cultural story but one of th