She purchased a 60-year-old home on three acres outside of Danbury, Connecticut, where she returned to her faming roots and lived a modern-day version of pioneer life just two hours from Manhattan, NY. It will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.”. In 1922 Rose spent much of the year travelling across Eastern Europe through the Balkans and into the Soviet Union, just four years after the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seized power. She published one of the first biographies of Herbert Hoover, whom she greatly admired. google_ad_width = 120; There was a downturn in the real estate market due to the threat of America's entry into World War I, so in early 1915 Rose accepted a job as an editorial assistant on the staff of the San Francisco Bulletin. He also approved the miniseries The Young Pioneers (starring Linda Purl, Roger Kern, and Robert Hays), which was based on a compilation of Rose Wilder Lane's two best-selling novels. // Courtesy of SimplytheBest.net (http://simplythebest.net/info/dhtml_scripts.html) Rose Wilder Lane The greater the individual freedom, the faster is human progress, for free minds think of even more new things to be done than men can do in the limits of space and time. The papers of Rose Wilder Lane were donated to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library by Roger Lea MacBride in 1980. The Rediscovered Writings of Rose Wilder Lane: Literary Journalist. cache 4h 2m Now that she was an accomplished writer herself, Rose encouraged Laura to write down all of her childhood memories on paper. The eight novels written by Roger Lea MacBride are: Little House on Rocky Ridge (1993), Little Farm in the Ozarks (1994), Little Farm in the Ozarks (1995), On the Other Side of the Hill (1995), Little Town in the Ozarks (1996), New Dawn on Rocky Ridge (1997), On the Banks of the Bayou (1998), and Bachelor Girl (1999). She and her husband sold farm land in what is now the San Jose/Silicon Valley area of northern California. google_ad_channel =""; University of Missouri Press. ">Tell a Friend!

On March 24, 1909, Rose married a reporter and salesman named Gillette Lane; both of them were 22 years of age and they lived in the same San Francisco apartment building. Rose Wilder Lane, with her richness of description, was one of the most interesting writers of the early 20th century. http://www.liwfrontiergirl.com/rose.html - Rose Wilder Lane page at the "Laura Ingalls Wilder: Frontier Girl" site. In 1943 she published a book titled The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority, which traces the history of freedom and its impact on society, and points to America as a leader in the revolution of freedom. http://www.danburymuseum.org/danburymuseum/Lane.html - Rose Wilder Lane page from the Danbury Museum & Historical Society. She also edited and published On the Way Home, which was intended to serve as the capstone to the Little House series for those many fans who kept asking “what happened next?”. http://www.legacy.com/ns/FullStory.aspx?StoryType=1&StoryID=17 - “Rose Wilder Lane: Pioneer of Liberty,” by Amy Lauters at Legacy.com. This was followed by three more Little House books: Little House in the Big Woods (1932), Farmer Boy (1933), Little House on the Prairie (1935), and On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937). In 1938, halfway through their collaboration on the book series, Rose moved to the east coast to be closer to her publisher. In The Discovery of Freedom she wrote: “In 1933 a group of sincere and ardent collectivists seized control of the Democratic Party, used it as a means of grasping Federal power, and enthusiastically, from motives which many of them regard as the highest idealism, began to make America over. In 1973 MacBride published The First Four Years, the story of Almanzo and Laura's attempt to homestead, and Rose's birth and early childhood. Rose lived in the white farmhouse that Laura and Almanzo had originally built, which she remodeled and modernized. google_ad_type = "text_image"; She loved the mountains, the sea, the architecture, the culture, and the way of life. Of all the countries she visited, Albania became her favorite place in the world. Laura Ingalls Wilder once wrote that home is “the best place for teaching many things, first and most important of which is how to think for one's self” (February 5, 1920). The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane. by Teri Ann Berg Olsen Recreations of rooms from Rose’s homes, her desks, her manuscripts, and souvenirs from world travels are displayed to reflect the creative and exciting life of the Wilders’ only daughter. He was the very first person ever to run for public office as a Libertarian when he ran for Governor of Vermont in 1966.