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I found an excerpt from an article explaining one reason Little House is really rather loosely based on Laura's books:
"Wilder completed her first autobiographical work in the late 1920s. Entitled Pioneer Girl, it was a first-person account of her childhood on the frontier from the time she was three until she reached the age of eighteen. After Rose edited the book, Wilder submitted it to various publishers under the name Laura Ingalls Wilder. But no one was interested in her chronicle, which contained plenty of historical facts about her childhood but little in the way of character development".
So to make a show the producers developed characters and events that never existed or happened, but others did. I like the show, it's family-oriented dealing with at least some real-life matters. People should know though that the show is mainly for entertainment, as most shows are.
Well gee, I wonder if that's why you could call Hollywood a lot of unrealistic garbage? Not all of it, but a lot.
So many posts spoofing the show because of all the deviation from the real facts. Like for example the show portrayed Charles as a carpenter. The real Charles was not, he was the town butcher, as well as Justice of the Peace and worked for the railroad. Too many twists and turns from the truth.
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