Wilder on the Prairie

Episode 133

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 24 "The Spring Rush"

Join us this week as we discuss "greenhorns", how much 25 cents was, Fort Pierre South Dakota, "March comes in like a lamb, it goes out like a lion", what it means "to board" someone, Sioux Falls South Dakota and "to be hung for a sheep as a lamb".

Episode 132

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 23, "On the Pilgrim Way"

Join us this week as we discuss "Lend a Helping Hand", Rev. Alden in the late 1870s, Rev. Stewart Sheldon, Huron South Dakota, the Home Missionary Society, the word "repined", brown sugar syrup, "receipts" vs. "recipes", Jean Pierre de Smet, and "baching".

Episode 131

ch 31 By the Shores of Silver Lake "Happy Winter Days"

Join us as we discuss 1880 history in context, Yankton South Dakota, The New York Ledger, continued stories (serials), "Gypsy's Warning", "When I Was One and Twenty, Nell", "Billy Boy", "Camptown Races", "Three Blind Mice", "Nelly Was a Lady (Last Night She Died)", "Ben Bolt", "Oft in the Stilly Night", and "Banks O'Doon".

Episode 130

Ch. 21 By the Shores of Silver Lake "Merry Christmas"

Join us as we discuss setting the Christmas table, wristlets, "gathers", cheesecloth, codfish gravy, where did the cream come from?, "plenty more down in a cellar in a teacup", onion stuffing, "Jumping Jehosephat!", and the Boasts living in the surveyor's office just for the winter.

Episode 129

ch 20 By the Shores of SIlver Lake "The Night Before Christmas"

Join us this week as we discuss Ella Peck Boast, the definitions of "parbroil" and "raw-fry", claim jumpers, the ranges of voice types, and "Merry, Merry Christmas Everywhere".

Episode 128

Ch. 19 by the Shores of Silver Lake "Christmas Eve"

Join us as we discuss the scrap bag, jackrabbits, cornmeal mush, "Down the River on the Ohio", "Why Chime the Bells So Merrily", "Jingle Bells", "Mountain of the Lord", and "Gentle Words and Loving Smiles".

Episode 127

By the Shores of Silver Lake, chapter 18 "Pa Finds the Homestead"

Join us this week as we discuss going 10 miles in the snow, buffalo wolf tracks, wolf life spans, pack sizes, and Pa's quarter section.

Episode 126

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 17 "Wolves on Silver Lake"

Join us this week as we discuss where their shoes came from (?), whether wolves are nocturnal, and flatirons.

Episode 125

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 16 "Winter Days"

Join us this week as we discuss muskrats in South Dakota, the history of checkers, and the word "immoderately".

Episode 124

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 15 "The Last Man Out"

Join us this week as we discuss Horace G. Woodworth, the "prairie cure" for consumption, buffalo wolves, Pa's prediction of Dakota winters, "Hail, Columbia!", "Highland Mary", "Coming through the Rye", "I'm Mrs. Jinks of Madison Square", the polka and the waltz.