Wilder on the Prairie

Episode 43

Chapter 1 "Going West"

Join us this week as we discuss the Ingalls family in both Missouri and Kansas, Pa's Wisconsin land in 2022 dollars, dimensions of a prairie schooner, Laura's grandparents and double cousins, molasses, the dimensions of Lake Pepin, when this ice cracks on Lake Pepin, the definition of Indian Territory, crossing the Missouri River, jackrabbits, and wagon wheel tracks you can still see in the American West.

Episode 42

Farmer Boy Chapter 29 "Farmer Boy"

Join us this week as we discuss wheelwrights, apprenticeship in the 1800s, truckle, and Libertarians.

Episode 41

Farmer Boy Chapter 28 "Mr. Thompson's Pocket Book"

In today's episode we discuss hay balers, capstans, money conversions, pocketbooks, shinny, hames, livery stables, and if Mr. Paddock was a real person.

Episode 40

Farmer Boy Chapter 27 "Wood Hauling"

Join us this week as we discuss yearlings, Almanzo's age, feather stitching, cant poles, balky, swearing, and corded wood.

Episode 39

Farmer Boy Chapter 26 "Christmas"

Join us as we discuss the extended Wilder Family, switches, scouring bricks, mince pies, dampers, horehound candy, garnets, paring potatoes, and the word "dast".

Episode 38

Farmer Boy Chapter 25 "Threshing"

Join us this week as we discuss flails, ironwood, fanning mills, eating wheat kernels, and how big a bushel is.

Episode 37

Farmer Boy Chapter 24 "The Little Bobsled"

Join us this week as we discuss bobsleds, a tree being 5" through, the definition of "hew", the pliability of wood, and Laurapalooza 2022.

Episode 36, Farmer Boy Chapter 23 "Cobbler"

Join us this week as we discuss the Malone Academy, basting, boughten, carpetbags, husking pegs, lasts, awls, and bespoke shoes.

Farmer Boy chapter 22 "Fall of the Year"

Join us this week as we discuss beechnuts, why snow is "poor man's fertilizer", banking walls, saltpeter, and candlemaking.

Farmer Boy Chapter 21 "The County Fair"

Join us this week as we discuss 1866 money values in 2022, thoroughbred horses, Belgian horses, mules, Chester white pigs, succotash, sulkies, and the world's record for running a mile.