These sparkling works of Laura Ingalls Wilder came before she wrote her famous book Little House on the Prairie, from which the television show came. The eight other books she wrote tell of her life as a girl on the American frontier between about 1870 and 1889. But years before writing these books, she wrote articles about small farms, country living and just living life for the Missouri Ruralist magazine. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Most Inspiring Writings is a collection of forty-eight of the most interesting and uplifting of these writings.Within Laura's words are gems of down to earth wisdom. Amazingly, most of her comments mean just as much today as when she wrote them. These writings give us her philosophy of life and are the seed stock of Laura's prairie books.