Introducing: Wilder

The Bechdel Cast

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Comedy

4.6 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Jack Kerouac but make it a girl with braids. Carrie Bradshaw, but without the sex, and also braids. An American Icon. An American Odyssey. American propaganda. Violently so, in some cases. Laura Ingalls Wilder is evergreen. For better or worse. Since the first Little House book was published in 1932, generations of readers have flocked to Laura’s cozy stories of the Ingalls family settling the Western frontier. The series inspired a TV show, pageants, and entire fashion lines. Behind this franchise is a woman who experienced almost a full century of American history. She’d made her first trips in a covered wagon, and eventually flew on a jet plane. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life and legacy remain as powerful, mesmerizing, controversial, and violent as the America she represents. In a country currently at odds with itself and its history could there be a better time for an exploration of this woman? Listen to Wilder on the iHeartRadio App or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-wilder-112847598/

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0:00.0	She's a Hollywood Western.
0:03.8	She's Jack Kerouac, but in an app dress with braids.
0:07.3	She is one of the most important American children's authors
0:13.4	of the 20th century.
0:15.3	She's the basis for a television show
0:17.5	still watched around the world.
0:19.4	I literally wake up in the middle of the night and go,
0:22.8	somebody somewhere is watching the las in the brain.
0:25.8	Women will come up to me and cry and saying
0:27.4	my childhood was miserable and little house in the prairie
0:29.9	was my escape.
0:30.8	She's been called a hero, a racist, a feminist,
0:35.0	and a propagandist.
0:36.5	Consider a native child in their classroom, reading it aloud.
0:40.6	And they come to that sentence, the only good Indian
0:43.4	is a dead Indian.
0:46.0	She is Laura Ingalls Wilder.
0:49.0	Did you know she was a real person?
0:52.5	In the 1930s, Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote
0:54.8	the nine little house on the prairie books
0:56.8	based on her childhood on the American frontier.
0:59.6	And in one way or another, she's been with us ever since.
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