A Wilder in the West
Subtitle: The Story of Eliza Jane Wilder
Publisher: Anderson Publications; Brand: Anderson Pubns; Anderson Pubns
Published: June 1985
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780961008840
Subjects: General; Biography / Autobiography
Description: Eliza Jane lived a life which became a topic of public interest years after her death. Were it not for her brother Almanzo's writer-wife Laura Ingalls Wilder, Eliza Jane's name would have joined the ranks of "hidden women"--Who capably made homes, reared children adn contributed to their localities in the latter part of the last century. Since her status as a supporting character in the "Little House" classics came long after she was gone, the records of her life had simply become family keepsakes -- not historical documents -- and memories garnered by her family from Eliza Jane herself were sketchy and hardly anticipated as future facts surrounding a literary character.