>> right. >> but michael landon didn't want them to have -- >> michael landon really did emphasize the success of the family. so his kids did wear shoes and they had toys that the real ingalls girls, i think, coveted and would have loved to have had but didn't have. >> right. i don't remember every detail of the tv series, but laura ingalls -- how did it show the indians and how did that compare to how the indians were portrayed in the books? there's some mixed sort of messages there, it seems. >> yeah. i mean, i'm aware of just a handful of instances, especially one episode of the tv show that showed what was meant to be an indian boy and laura's interaction with him. and i think these were, again, just ideas of michael landon, who apparently also repurposed a lot of "bonanza" episodes. >> did he? >> yes. i don't really think it had anything to do with historical reality or even with wilder's own memories, you know, that come through so strongly in "little house on the prairie" which she called her indian country novel and which does portray a number of encounters that she and her fam