Parts of this book originally appeared in Little House in the Ozarks, published in 1991. I want to acknowledge once again the enormous help I received from the staff at Ellis Library at the University of Missouri--Columbia, where I did my first research, and I also want to thank the staff of the Kansas State Historical Society Archives for their help as I rounded out my work.
The completion of this volume has been greatly facilitated by my wife, Gwen, and daughter, Megan, whose contributions were significant in ways too numerous to mention.
My sister-in-law Kaye Hines from Topeka, Kansas, helped out at the last moment when a few column copies and page numbers were needed which had been misplaced over the years.
Finally, I thank the University of Missouri Press, acquisitions editor Clair Willcox, and copyeditor Jane Lago--for their encouragement and guidance in completing this work. It has been the labor of many hands.
If it should happen that an alert reader knows of a work by Mrs. Wilder published in the Ruralist that I missed, please excuse the omission. It was not intentional. Perhaps the problem can be addressed if there are future editions.
All of us are hopeful that readers of this "new" Laura will love these writings as much as they have loved her original books about her pioneer experience as viewed by her from long ago and far away.
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