A

 

A beautiful castle I’ve built for thee (see In Dreamland Far Away)

aboveboard

accordion

acorn

used as toy cups

acre

Adam

"didn't know me from Adam"

naming the animals

Adam's apple

Adams, John

Adams, John Quincy

admonish

Advance, The

adverb

air-castle

Albert (Laura's cousin), see Quiner, Albert

album

autograph , see also copper plate / see blog 27 March 2007

photograph, see also plush, velvet

Alden, Edwin Hyde, see also blog 6 August 2006

Alfarata, see The Blue Juniata

Wild roved an Indian maid

Alfred (Laura's classmate in De Smet), see Ely, Alfred

Alice (Laura's cousin), see Ingalls, Alice

Alice (Almanzo's sister), see Wilder, Alice

A life on the ocean wave, see A Life on the Ocean Wave

alley

All around the cobbler’s bench, see Pop! Goes the Weasel

All around the open door, smiling on the rich and poor, see Song of the Grass

"All's well that ends well"

Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder Association, Malone, New York

Wilder Homestead, Burke Township, New York

All the Blue Bonnets are Over the Border

Almanzo Wilder, see Wilder, Almanzo

Almanzo 100 bike race, see also blog 21 April 2007

alto

ambition, see blog 9 May 2006 / blog 2 August 2006

amen

amen corner

America

America

United States of America

American

flag

Great American Desert

history

Am I a Soldier of the Cross

ammunition

Anderson, Mr. (homesteader from The Long Winter)

Anderson, William T. (noted Laura Ingalls Wilder authority)

M is for Mt. Rushmore, see blog 21 April 2005

Andrew (Almanzo's uncle), see Day, Andrew

And I’ll sing Yankee Doodle-de-do, see Yankee Doodle

And there he saw some great big guns, see Yankee Doodle

And we’ll rally ‘round the flag boys, see The Battle Cry of Freedom

angel

angel-birds

Angel Band

Angel band, come and around me stand, see Angel Band

angleworm

Annie (Carrie's friend in De Smet)

antelope

herd

hide and bones

ante-over

anthem

anvil

A penny for a spool of thread, see Pop! Goes the Weasel,

A pocket full of rye, see Sing a Song of Sixpence

apple

Adam's, see adam's apple

apples'n'onions, see blog 2 April 2005

baked

Ben Davis, see blog 13 April 2005

bins

birds'-nest pudding

cheeks red as

cider

cider-apples

clove

cores

crab-apple jelly, see crab-apple

dried

dried-apple box

dried-apple pie

dried-apple sauce / applesauce

drying

fruit

harvest

in a pig's mouth

mentioned in "Uncle John" game

mincemeat

Missouri Pippin, see blog 13 April 2005

"one rotton apple will spoil a whole bin"

picking

pie

pumpkin as substitute for

red

sauce

trees

turnovers

vinegar

apprentice

apron

leather

storm

Arab

Arbor Day, see blog 27 April 2007

Arkansas Traveler

army

bugle

captain, see also Captain Jinks

coat

drummer boy

United States

ash, fire

ashpan

Indian campfires

used in making lye

potato cooked in

prairie fire

sweet potato cooked in

ash, tree

squirrels' ears the size of ash leaves

ash withes / ash-withes

askew

atheist

Athenians, see blog 6 May 2005

attic

ladder

auger

auk, great

little auk, see dovkie

Auld Lang Syne

aunt

Delia, see Day, Delia

Docia, see Forbes, Docia

Eliza, see Ingalls, Eliza

Libby, see Ingalls, Elizabeth

Lily, see Quiner, Lily

Lindy, see Day, Lindy

Lotty, see Holbrook, Charlotte

Polly, see Quiner, Polly

Ruby, see Card, Ruby

Away down the river on the O-hi-o, see De Boatmen Dance

awe

awesome

awl

"that was his awl," describing the last of the butter

ax

axes and plows made the country

ax-handle

ax head

"Common taters on the ax"

 

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