This is Angela Odell and you are listening to real cool history for kids.

A podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical world view perspective.

Welcome to an adventure.

Welcome to episode 103 of real cool history for kids.

This episode is for Leana Velasquez, who wanted to hear the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder

in honor of her 11th birthday on June 2nd.

Hey Leana, happy birthday.

This one's for you.

Well I'm so excited to tell you all this story today.

I haven't gotten to tell you that many stories based in this time period when Laura Ingalls

lived.

So this is going to be a lot of fun.

The time period of history that's the backdrop of our story is called the Pioneer Days

of America.

This era of America's history is mostly between the years 1800 and 1900.

I've told you several stories about the Civil War that happened pretty much in the middle

of that century.

Those stories are back in the earlier episodes of real cool history for kids.

So we have learned about the Civil War and we have learned about the Louisiana purchase

that more than doubled the size of our country back in the early 1800s.

So what's important to remember and to know is that although the United States, which

had won its independence from Great Britain just a few decades before the Civil War, almost

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