Written by the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder. A touching novel about a young pioneer couple and their struggles. It was originally titled "Let the Hurricane Roar". Just 100 pages long, but enjoyed every minute of the experience.

3.5 STARS

I've always been a big fan of the "Little House on the Prairie" series, so I was familiar with Rose Wilder Lane, but I had never read any of her books. I was pleased as punch when I came across not one, but two of her books at a Friends of the Library book sale. One was "Let the Hurricane Roar" and the other was "Young Pioneers." You can imagine my surprise when I figured out these were the same book. The only change was that the publishers had decided to change the characters names from Charles and Caroline to Molly and David.

As I was reading this tale of hardship and perseverance, I kept thinking how familiar it seemed to me. It took me a little while to figure out, but my husband had bought a DVD of eight adventure movies that contained the movie adaptation of this book called "Young Pioneers." We watched it a couple years ago before I knew anything about "Let the Hurricane Roar," which is why I couldn't shake the feeling of deja vu regarding this book.

"Caroline's parents gave her two blankets, two wild-goose-feather pillows, and cooking pot and pan and skillet. They gave her a ham, a cheese, two molds of maple sugar, and Tennyson's Poems beautifully bound in green and gilt, with steel engravings. She had the patchwork quilts she had pieced. Charles had his fiddle and his gun. Their families together sent East for their Bible, and the circuit rider wrote their marriage certificate on the page provided for it. The pages for Births and Deaths were still blank, waiting to be written upon. So, well provided for, they set out to the West."

It's hard to believe most pioneer families began new lives out West with such few possessions!

We are having hard times now, but we should not dwell upon them but think of the future. It has never been easy to build up a country, but how much easier it is for us, with such great comforts and conveniences, kerosene, cookstoves, and even railroads and fast posts, than it was for our forefathers. I trust that, like our own parents, we may live to see times more prosperous than they have ever been in the past, and we will then reflect with satisfaction that these hard times were not in vain."

Overall, an enjoyable read about life on the prairie and the grit needed to survive during times of adversity.

Read this book years ago and fell in love with it. It’s a beautiful story and is completely underrated in my opinion. Perfect for when you are in the mood for a story to read in a day or less. Definitely 5 out of 5 stars and absolutely recommend!

Rose Wilder Lane is Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter and this novel was written in 1933.

A quick read, only 152 pages, this is impossible to put down. It details what was involved in traveling west, living in a dugout, attempting to communicate with neighbors who spoke only Swedish, giving birth with only the help of a neighbor, and the heartbreak of losing crops to devastating swarms of grasshoppers. The novel was based on the history of Rose W. Lane's grandparents' homesteading adventures.

Having read her mother's "Little House" books and visited the various Laura Ingalls Wilder historic sites (most recently in Mansfield, Missouri), I wanted to read something by her famous-in-her-own-right daughter. I felt this novel could have been written by Rose Wilder Lane's mother as a number of the incidents in the story are much like events which happened in Laura's life. Rose Wilder Lane's characters did more overtly express frustration and other strong emotions when the pioneers were confronted with challenges than Laura did in her works. It is a short novel, more of a long short story in reality, and a quick read.

Challenges: Little House on the Prairie Readathon Feb 2021 - Group read. The story kept me captivated with the harshness of pioneer life, and at the same time struck me with the lessons that had to be learned when hubris met the reality of natural disasters. Told in the vernacular of the day and in the context of the western expansion of manifest destiny, attitudes of open spaces and rich soil for the taking remind us of both the joy and the prices paid for progress and settlement in the 1800s. I wish the story was a little longer revealing what happens in the spring. Maybe reading more in the 'Little House' series will fill the gaps.

Rose Wilder Lane was a dreadful human being, but damned if she didn’t write a compelling story. It was almost like playing LIW bingo, but I enjoyed the characters and rooted for them. Caroline’s experience living alone in the dugout has helped me deal with a similar but much less extreme experience of my own; alone in a very cold house with only fear and uncertainty as my companions.

Again, Ms. Lane was a crappy person who hung out with Ayn Rand, but I’m glad she wrote this book. What can I say.

As a fan of the Little House on the Prairie series, I have always been curious about Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter Rose Wilder Lane who was an accomplished author before her mother found fame. I am aware that Rose was the driving force behind Laura's work and helped shape and edit her writing, and unfortunately ended up taking a backseat once Laura's writing became a beloved classic.

This story showcases Rose's writings and has familiar story elements, as they were stories the Ingalls family had passed down about some of their experiences in the Dakota's in the 1870's. Newly married teens Molly and David strike out on their own and homestead in a sod shanty despite Molly's advanced pregnancy. Their happiness with a newborn son and a promising wheat crop is tempered by a grasshopper plague and David is forced to look for work elsewhere. Molly and the baby survive the winter by themselves, and are later reunited with David.

This was an enjoyable and fast read, and as a mother of teens, it is hard for me to believe that in previous generations teens were capable adults that knew skills and lived on their own at such a young age. But I also recognized their naivete (such as what Molly expected in regards to the birth when she was counseled by older women not to move yet) that many young adults have when they don't have experience yet but believe they know everything. That is universal indeed ;)

طوفان می غرد... داستان تلاش برای زندگی و زنده ماندن. داستان دوست داشتن، نا امیدی، غرور، ترس و انتظار...ه

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Recommended, but not required, for an online Laura Ingalls Wilder class I am currently taking.
Interesting contrast with Wilder's writing, as Rose took a lot of her mom's memories and put it together into a fiction before hers were published. It was interesting to run across familiar episodes, but it was also instructive at how much better Laura's voice and characterizations were.

Lovely story, kind of remembers of the time near Plum Creek when Pa Ingalls had to go east for work because of the grashoppers...
I'm glad I got to read it.

Loved revisiting Little House, especially from a woman’s point of view versus (Laura) a child in most of the series. I liked how Wilder wove in little details from the her mother’s books and real life