Missouri Ruralist
The Missouri Ruralist. A twice-monthly Missouri farm periodical published at St. Louis, edited by John Francis Case. Laura Ingalls Wilder was one of its regular contributors from 1911 to 1925.
In 1911, Laura Ingalls Wilder began an association with the Missouri Ruralist that lasted for over a dozen years. After hearing read a paper written by Mrs. Wilder, the Ruralist’s editor, John Francis Case, invited her to submit articles to be considered for publication. Mrs. Wilder wrote about what she knew best – farm issues, items in the news, and her own family. After visiting daughter Rose Wilder Lane in San Francisco in 1915, Mrs. Wilder became a more regular contributor to the Ruralist, and in 1917, she was made editor of the Farm Home section.
The following list was compiled from print and microfilmed copies at The University of Missouri at Columbia, and microfilm copies at the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Click on linked dates below to read original articles, transcribed exactly as published in the Missouri Ruralist, preserving Wilder’s title, unedited text, spelling, and with original editor’s notes included. Scans of the copies made by me are also included. A key to titles containing reprinted or edited Ruralist articles can be found at the end of this listing.
All of Wilder’s Missouri Ruralist articles are in the public domain. The collection below links to image copies of all articles attributed to Laura Ingalls Wilder to date. Transcriptions of all articles in the bibliography below have been compiled and can be read in a single document if you CLICK HERE.
1911
February 18, 1911 – [PAGE 1] “Favors the Small Farm Home.” – LHS: 99. LIW:AFC, 59. Reprinted as “The March of Progress” – LHitO, 30; WYW:II, 43. Reprinted as “Village Life the Solution” – LIW:AFC, 63; LIW:FJ, 13-16.
April 15, 1911 – [PAGE 12] From Mrs. Wilder’s Nature Songs: “The People in God’s Out-of-Doors.” – LIW: AFC, 3; LHR: 93;LIW:FJ, 16-17.
July 22, 1911 – [PAGE 1] Wilder, A.J. (byline) “The Story of Rocky Ridge Farm: How Mother Nature in the Ozarks Rewarded Well Directed Efforts after a Fruitless Struggle on the Plains of the Dakotas. The Blessings of Living Water and a Gentle Climate.” – LIW:FJ, 17-19. – Printed as “The Story of Rocky Ridge Farm” – LHS: 104; LIW:AFC, 8; IRL: 81. Reprinted as “Rocky Ridge Farm” – LHitO, 38; WYW:II, 21.
1912
June 1, 1912 – [PAGE 1] [PAGE 5] “My Apple Orchard: How a ‘Tenderfoot’ Knowing Nothing about Orcharding Learned the Business in Missouri—Quail as Insect Destroyers,” by A.J. Wilder (byline). – LHitO, 44; LIW:AFC, 4; IRL, 86; WYW:II, 11; LIW:FJ, 20-22.
1913
June 28, 1913 – [PAGE 3] [PAGE 10] “Shorter Hours for Farm Women: The Woman Who Manages the Farm Home Should Have Every Means of Saving Labor Placed at Her Disposal. Simple Conveniences within Reach of All.” – Reprinted as “Shorter Hours for the Farm Home Manager,” LHitO, 193; WYW:II, 50; LIW:FJ, 22-26.
1914
February 5, 1914 – [PAGE 9] “Good Times on the Farm: It’s Easy To Have Fun If You Plan For It.” Volume XI, page 9. – LIW:AFC, 163. Reprinted as “A Day Off Now and Then,” LHitO, 135; WYW:II, 103; LIW:FJ, 26-27.
April 20, 1914 – [PAGE 9] “A Plain Beauty Talk: Women Can Afford to Spend Time On Their Looks,” page 9. – Reprinted as “The Home Beauty Parlor,” LHitO, 211; WYW:II, 65; LIW:FJ, 27-29. Similar articles by Rose Wilder Lane – sometimes with the same title as Laura’s – had been published in newspapers across the country the previous year.
June 20, 1914 – [PAGE 4] [PAGE 8] “A Homemaker of the Ozarks: Mrs. Durnell Reclaimed a Farm, Built a House in the Wilderness and Learned the Secret of Contentment,” pages 4, 8. – LIW:AFC, 167; LHR: 71 (Photograph of original article appears on page 73); LIW:FJ, 30-34.
1915
April 5, 1915 – [PAGE 21] “Economy in Egg Production.” – LIW:AFC, 11; LIW:FJ, 34-35.
June 20, 1915 – [PAGE 9] “Making the Best of Things.” – LIW:AFC, 64; LIW:FJ, 35-36. Reprinted as “Outdoor Life the Solution” – LIW:AFC, 64.
November 20, 1915 – [PAGE 12] [PAGE 13]”Magic in Plain Foods: All the World Serves a Woman when She Telephones.” – LIW:AFC, 66; WFH:119; LIW:FJ, 37-41.
December 5, 1915 – [PAGE 3] [PAGE 7] “And Missouri ‘Showed’ Them: From A to Z—Alfalfa to Zinc—the ‘Show Me State’ Won Honors at ‘Frisco’s Exposition.” – LIW:AFC, 13; LIW:FJ, 41-47.
1916
February 5, 1916 – [PAGE 20] [PAGE 21] “All in the Day’s Work: Just a Neighborly Visit With Folks at Rocky Ridge Farm.” – LIW:AFC, 20-21. Reprinted as “This and That- A Neighborly Visit With Laura” – LHitO, 215; WYW:II, 69; LIW:FJ, 48-51.
February 20, 1916 – [PAGE 11] “Does It Pay to be Idle? Sometimes Misdirected Energy May Cease to Be a Virtue.” – LHitO, 128; LIW:AFC, 71. Reprinted as “Sometimes Misdirected Energy May Cease to Be a Virtue.” – LIW:FJ, 51-54.
March 5, 1916 – [PAGE 14] [PAGE 15] “Life is an Adventure.” – LHitO, 140; LIW:AFC, 99; LIW:FJ, 55-58.
March 20, 1916 – [PAGE 10] [PAGE 11] “Join ‘Don’t Worry’ Club: Conservation of a Woman’s Strength Is True Preparedness.” – LHitO, 131. Reprinted as “Join the ‘Don’t Worry’ Club” – LIW:AFC, 75; LIW:FJ, 58-62.
April 5, 1916 – [PAGE 11] “Look for Fairies Now.” – LIW:AFC, 103; LIW:FJ, 62-65. Reprinted in part as “Fairies Still Appear to Those with Seeing Eyes,” – LHitO, 109. Reprinted in part as “A Woman’s Power and the Vote,” – LHitO, 197.
April 20, 1916 – [PAGE 19] “So We Moved the Spring: How Running Water Was Provided in the Rocky Ridge Farm Home.” – LIW: FJ, 66-68. – Printed as “So We Moved the Spring” – LHS; 108; LIW:AFC, 24. Reprinted as “We Revel in Water!” LHitO, 41; WYW:II, 57.
May 5, 1916 – [PAGE 12] [PAGE 13] “Folk are ‘Just Folks’.” – LIW:AFC, 175; IRL: 179; LHR: 124; LIW:FJ, 66-71. Reprinted as “Thoughts on the Role of Women and Divorce” – LHitO, 208.
June 5, 1916 – [PAGE 15] “When is a Settler an Old Settler?” – LHitO, 28; LIW:AFC, 107; LIW:FJ, 72-73.
June 20, 1916 – [PAGE 9] “Facts versus Theories.” – LIW:FJ, 73-75.
July 20, 1916 – [PAGE 9] “Haying While the Sun Shines.” – LIW:AFC, 27; LIW:FJ, 75-76. Reprinted as “Farmers– Need More Wives?” – LHitO, 126; WYW:II, 89.
August 5, 1916 – [PAGE 9] “Kin-folks or Relations?” – LIW:AFC, 114; LIW:FJ, 77-78. Reprinted as “Kinfolks or Mere Relations?” – LHitO, 91.
August 5, 1916 – [PAGE 12] [PAGE 13] “Showing Dad the Way: Mansfield Has a Boys’ Good Road Club That Works and Plays.” – LIW:AFC, 111; LIW:FJ, 78-80.
August 20, 1916 – [PAGE 5] “A Dog’s a Dog for A’ That.” – LHitO, 295; LIW:AFC, 29; WYW:I, 13; LIW:FJ, 81-82.
September 5, 1916 – [PAGE 11] “Do Not Waste Your Strength.” – LIW:AFC, 79; LIW:FJ, 83-84. Reprinted as “Let’s Not Depend on Experts” – LHitO, 122.
September 20, 1916 – [PAGE 9] “All the World is Queer.” – LIW:AFC, 80; LIW:FJ, 84-85. Reprinted as “The Old Dash Churn” – LHitO, 167; WYW:II, 8.
October 5, 1916 – [PAGE 11] “Just a Question of Tact.” – LHitO, 165; LIW:AFC, 116; WYW:I, 33; LIW:FJ, 85-87. Reprinted as “Nice Discernment” – SG, 133.
October 20, 1916 – [PAGE 9] “An Autumn Day.” – LHitO, 240; LIW:AFC, 31; WYW:I, 71; LIW:FJ, 87-88. Reprinted as “Why Is the World So Beautiful If Not for Us?” – SG, 17.
November 5, 1916 – [PAGE 12] “Our Fair and Other Things.” – LIW:AFC, 118; LIW:FJ, 88-90. Reprinted as “Our Fair and Our Fancy” – LHitO, 159.
November 20, 1916 – [PAGE 13] “Thanksgiving Time.” – LHS: 29; LIW:AFC, 82; LIW:FJ, 90-91. Reprinted as “Laura and Mary Quarrel at Thanksgiving” – LHitO, 302; WYW:I, 54.
December 5, 1916 – [PAGE 11] “Learning to Work Together.” – LIW:AFC, 120; LIW:FJ, 92-94. – Reprinted in part as “The Helping Hand of Helpfulness” – LHitO, 103; WYW:I, 3.
December 20, 1916 – [PAGE 3] “Before Santa Claus Came.” – LIW:FJ, 94-95. – Reprinted as “Before Santa Came” – LIW:AFC, 85.
1917
January 5, 1917 – [PAGE 9] “What’s In a Word?” – LIW:FJ, 96-98. Reprinted as “A Constant Friend,” – LHitO, 231. Reprinted as “What’s in a Word?” in LIW:AFC, 122.
January 20, 1917 – [PAGE 9] “Giving and Taking Advice,” – LIW:AFC, 124; LIW:FJ, 98-99. Reprinted as “Administer Advice in Small Doses” – LHitO, 269.
February 5, 1917 – [PAGE 9] “According to Experts” – LHS: 33; LIW:AFC, 33; LIW:FJ, 100-101. Reprinted as “The Hard Winter” LHitO, 147; WYW:II, 30.
February 20, 1917 – [PAGE 13] “Are You Going Ahead?” – LIW:AFC, 126; LIW:FJ, 101-103. Reprinted as “The Source of Improvement” LHitO, 100; WYW:I, 105.
March 5, 1917 – [PAGE 8] “Getting the Worst of It.” – LHitO, 98; LIW:FJ, 103-105.
April 5, 1917 – [PAGE 17] “Buy Goods Worth the Price.” – LIW:AFC, 128; LIW:FJ, 105-106. – Reprinted as “The Hidden Cost of Getting What We Want” LHitO, 276; WYW:I, 86.
April 20, 1917. [PAGE 11] “Henry Ford’s Own Story.” (Not an article by Laura Ingalls Wilder.) Review of Rose Wilder Lane’s book, Henry Ford’s Own Story.
April 20, 1917 – [PAGE 16] “Does ‘Haste Make Waste’?” – LIW:FJ, 106-108. Reprinted as “What Became of the Time We Saved?” – LHitO, 163; WYW:II, 106.
May 5, 1917 – [PAGE 9] “Each in His Place.” – LHitO, 245; LIW:FJ, 108-109. Reprinted as “Each in His Own Place” LIW:AFC, 179.
May 20, 1917 – [PAGE 9] “Just Neighbors.” – LIW:AFC, 130; LIW:FJ, 109-110. Reprinted as “Good Neighbors” LHitO, 229. Reprinted as “Thoughts on Being a Neighbor” – SG, 159.
June 5, 1917 – [PAGE 13] “Doing Our Best.” – LIW:AFC, 53; LIW:FJ, 111-112. A portion of the original article reprinted as “On Chickens and Hawks” – LHitO, 151; WYW:II, 17.
June 20, 1917 – [PAGE 12] “Chasing Thistledown.” – LHitO, 161; LIW:AFC, 132; LIW:FJ, 112-114. Reprinted as “Gossiping” – SG, 125.
July 5, 1917 – [PAGE 8] “Without Representation.” – LIW:AFC, 181; LIW:FJ, 114-115. Article reprinted as “Left Out and Pushed About” – LHitO, 247.
July 20, 1917 – [PAGE 10] [PAGE 11] “And a Woman Did It.” – LIW:AFC, 183; LIW:FJ, 115-118.
July 20, 1917 – [PAGE 13] “A Bouquet of Wildflowers.” – LHS, 15; LIW:AFC, 37; LIW:FJ, 118-119. Reprinted as “Sweet Williams” LHitO, 51.
August 5, 1917 – [PAGE 12] “Put Yourself in His Place.” – LIW:FJ, 120-121. Reprinted as “Put Yourself in his Place” – LIW: AFC, 134.
August 20, 1917 – “The War, the Terrible…” – LHitO, 245. [Note: No similar article was found in any August 1917 Ruralist on microfilm or in hard copy.]
September 5, 1917 – [PAGE 16] “Let Us Be Just.” – LHitO, 297; LIW:AFC, 136; SG, 18; WYW:I, 6; LIW:FJ, 121-123.
September 20, 1917 – [PAGE 18] “To Buy or Not to Buy.” – LIW: AFC, 88; LIW:FJ, 123-124. Reprinted as We Always Pay for That ‘Need’,” page 18. – LHitO, 273.
October 5, 1917 – [PAGE 12] “Are We Too Busy?” – LHitO, 253; LIW:AFC, 39; LIW:FJ, 124-126.
October 20, 1917 – [PAGE 13] “Get the Habit of Being Ready.” – LIW:FJ, 126-127. Reprinted as “The First Frost” – LHitO, 157, LIW:AFC, 41.
November 5, 1917 – [PAGE 23] “Thoughts are Things.” – LIW: AFC, 89; LIW:FJ, 127-128. – Reprinted as “How to Furnish a Home” – LHitO, 36; SG, 59; WYW:II, 108.
November 20, 1917 – [PAGE 16] “Everyone Can Do Something.” – LIW:FJ, 128-129.
December 5, 1917 – [PAGE 14] “If We Only Understood.” – LHitO, 309; LIW:AFC, 138; WYW:I, 11; LIW:FJ, 129-130.
1918
January 5, 1918 – [PAGE 2] “Make a New Beginning.” – LHitO, 155; LIW:AFC, 43; WYW:I, 104; LIW:FJ, 131-132. Reprinted as “Doing a Proper Accounting” – SG, 121.
January 20, 1918 – [PAGE 16] “Santa Claus at the Front” – LIW:FJ, 132-133.
February 5, 1918 – [PAGE 12] [PAGE 13] “Make Your Dreams Come True.” – LIW:AFC, 44; LIW:FJ, 133-135. – Reprinted with editing as “Make Your Garden!” – LHitO, 85; WYW:I, 93.
February 20, 1918 – [PAGE 15] “Let’s Visit Mrs. Wilder” by John F. Case. – IRL: 7; LHitO, 21; LIW:AFC, 92; WYW:II, 3; WYW:III, 21.
February 20, 1918 – [PAGE 13] “Victory May Depend on You.” – IRL, 151; LIW:FJ, 135-136.
March 5, 1918 – [PAGE 10] [PAGE 11] “Keep Journeying On.” – LHitO, 96; LIW:AFC, 140; LIW:FJ, 136-137.
March 20, 1918 – [PAGE 13] “Make Every Minute Count.” – LHitO, 255; LIW:AFC, 50; WYW:I, 99; LIW:FJ, 138-139.
March 20, 1918 – [PAGE 20] [PAGE 21] “Visit ‘Show You’ Farm.” – LIW:AFC, 46; LIW:FJ, 139-142. – Reprinted as “The Preaching Farmer” – SG, 145.
April 5, 1918 – [PAGE 12] “What Would You Do?” – LHitO, 233; LIW:AFC, 142; LIW:FJ, 142-143.
April 20, 1918 – [PAGE 11] “We Must Not be Small Now.: – LIW:FJ, 144-145. – Reprinted as “A Wish for the Present” – LHitO, 257.
May 5, 1918 – [PAGE 10] [PAGE 11] “What the War Means to Women.” – LIW:AFC, 187; IRL, 153; LIW:FJ, 145-147.
May 20, 1918 – [PAGE 10] “How About the Home Front?” – IRL, 158; LIW:FJ, 147-149.
June 5, 1918 – [PAGE 12] [PAGE 13] “New Day for Women.” – LHitO, 218; LIW:AFC, 190; WYW:II, 74; LIW:FJ, 149-151.
June 20, 1918 – [PAGE 11] “Do the Right Thing Always.” – LHitO, 299; LIW:AFC, 144; WYW:I, 21; LIW:FJ, 152-153.
July 5, 1918 – [PAGE 21] “Are You Helping or Hindering?” – IRL, 161; LIW:FJ, 153-155.
August 5, 1918 – [PAGE 10] “Swearing is a Foolish Habit.” – LIW:AFC, 146; LIW:FJ, 155-156. Reprinted as “Swearing” – LHitO, 305; WYW:I, 36. Reprinted as “Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of the Lord Thy God in Vain,” SG, 123.
August 20, 1918 – [PAGE 11] “Overcoming Our Difficulties.” – LIW:AFC, 145; LIW:FJ, 156-157. Reprinted as “Challenges” LHitO, 239; WYW:I, 102.
September 5, 1918 – [PAGE 11] “When Proverbs Get Together.” – LIW:AFC, 148; LIW:FJ, 157-158. Reprinted as “When Proverbs Quarrel” LHitO, 124.
September 20, 1918 – [PAGE 13] “What Days in Which to Live!” – LIW:FJ, 159-160. – Reprinted as “Glory! What Days in Which to Live!” – LHitO, 259.
October 5, 1918 – [PAGE 26] “Your Code of Honor.” – LIW:AFC, 150; LIW:FJ, 160-162. Reprinted as “Our Code of Honor” LHitO, 261.
October 20, 1918 – [PAGE 13] “Early Training Counts Most.” – LIW:AFC, 152; LIW:FJ, 162-164. Reprinted as “Early Training Counts” – LHitO, 278. Reprinted as “Early Training” – SG, 129.
November 5, 1918 – [PAGE 27] “Opportunity.” – LHitO, 235; LIW:AFC, 154; WYW:I, 96; LIW:FJ, 164-165.
December 5, 1918 – [PAGE 22] “San Marino is Small but Mighty.” – IRL: 184; LIW:FJ, 166-167.
December 20, 1918 – [PAGE 11] “The American Spirit.” – LIW:AFC, 156; LIW:FJ, 168. Reprinted in part as “When the War Ended” – LHitO, 263.
1919
January 5, 1919 – [PAGE 19] “A Few Minutes With a Poet.” – LHitO, 226; WYW:I, 17; LIW:FJ, 169-171. Reprinted as “A Fool’s Prayer” – SG, 29.
January 20, 1919 – [PAGE 24] “Let’s Revive the Old Amusements.” – LIW:FJ, 171-173. Reprinted as “The Friday Night Literary” – LHitO, 149.
February 5, 1919 – [PAGE 34] “Mrs. Jones Takes the Rest Cure.” – LHitO, 120; LIW:FJ, 173-175.
February 20, 1919 – [PAGE 42] “Work Makes Life Interesting.” – LIW:FJ, 175-176. – Reprinted as “About Work” in LHitO, 137; WYW:II, 92. Reprinted as “The Necessity of Work” – SG, 115.
March 5, 1919 – [PAGE 44] “Friendship Must be Wooed.” – LIW:FJ, 176-178. – Reprinted as “Keeping Friends” in LHitO, 271; SG, 117; WYW:I, 44.
March 20, 1919 – [PAGE 11] “Here’s the Farm Loan Plan.”
March 20, 1919 – [PAGE 25] “Keep the Saving Habit.” – IRL, 165; LIW:FJ, 178-179.
April 5, 1919 – [PAGE 36] “Who’ll Do the Women’s Work?” – IRL, 168; LIW:FJ, 179-181. Reprinted as “Women’s Work?” in LHitO, 202; WYW:II, 80.
April 20, 1919 – [PAGE 36] “Women’s Duty at the Polls.” – LHitO, 204; WYW:I, 80; LIW:FJ, 181-182.
April 20, 1919 – [PAGE 21] “They Wrote to Mrs. Wilder.” About LIW’s reported “Here’s the Farm Loan Plan” article.
May 5, 1919 – [PAGE 26] [PAGE 35] With this issue, many of Wilder’s two articles per month began to be published under the column heading, “The Farm Home,” by Mrs. A.J. Wilder, Rocky Ridge Farm, with no other title. “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 183-184. – Wilder’s May 5, 1919, article about compulsory school law was reprinted in part as “Classed as Illiterates” – LHitO, 58.
May 20, 1919 – [PAGE 21] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 184-186. About the American Federation of Labor.
June 5, 1919 – [PAGE 23] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 186-188. Article about war debts. A portion was reprinted as “Getting Down to First Causes” – LHitO, 251. Reprinted as “Personal and National Responsibility: Doing What is Right” – SG. 99.
June 20, 1919 – [PAGE 19] [PAGE 23] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 188-190. About the Valley of Ten Thousand in Alaska.
July 5, 1919 – [PAGE 19] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 190-192. Article about memory.
July 20, 1919 – [PAGE 29] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 192-194. Musings about fashions pictured in a 1908 magazine Laura found while cleaning the attic. Reprinted as “Simplify, Simplify” – LHitO, 283; WYW:I, 73.
August 5, 1919 – [PAGE 20] “The Farm Home. – LIW:FJ, 194-195. Article about Laura helping with the haying. – Reprinted as “Two Heads Are Better Than One” – LHitO, 200; WYW:II, 94.
September 5, 1919 – [PAGE 32] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 195-197. Article about fuel availability. – Reprinted as “The Great Woods Have Been Destroyed” – LHitO, 76.
September 20, 1919 – [PAGE 30] “Missouri Women Who Write.” – Not an article by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Rose Wilder Lane and Mrs. A.J. Wilder mentioned.
September 20, 1919 – [PAGE 44] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 197-199. Article about Robert Burns and being nice. Reprinted as “A Spirit of Sadness Over it All” – LHitO, 56.
October 5, 1919 – [PAGE 23] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 199-200. Article about dependability. Reprinted as “Honor and Duty” – LHitO, 307; SG, 33; WYW:I, 38.
October 20, 1919 – [PAGE 22] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 200-202. Article about the American Forestry association and the Lincoln Highway – Reprinted in part as “The Wanton Destruction of Trees” – LHitO, 69.
November 5, 1919 – [PAGE 17] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 202-203. Article about prices one pays for goods these days. Reprinted in part as “Don’t Call the Government All of the Time” – LHitO, 280.
November 20, 1919 – [PAGE 34] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 204-205. Article about happiness and contentment and people in the country (mentions Rose Wilder Lane). Reprinted as “Compensations” in LHitO, 79; WYW:I, 77. Reprinted as “To Appreciate Heaven” – SG, 39.
December 5, 1919 – [PAGE 33] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 205-207. Article about high prices after the war. A portion of the article reprinted as “What Women Can Add to Politics” – LHitO, 214. Reprinted as “A Few Words to Voters” – LHR, 118.
December 20, 1919 – [PAGE 27] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 207-208. Laura’s Christmas message for peace on earth. Reprinted as “Peace on Earth” – LHitO, 264. Reprinted as “Good Will unto Men” – SG, 111.
1920
January 5, 1920 – [PAGE 41] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 209-211. Reprinted as “The Man of the Place” – LHitO, 56. Reprinted as “It Depends on How You Look at It” in LHS, 111-114.
January 20, 1920 – [PAGE 45] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 211-212. Reprinted as “Troubles Grow as we Talk About Them” – LHitO, 93; WYW:I, 41. Reprinted as “The value of Good Works” – SG, 75
February 5, 1920 – [PAGE 35] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 213. Reprinted as “Think for Yourself” – LHitO, 285.
February 20, 1920 – [PAGE 40] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 214.-215 Article about benzol as a substitute for gasoline.
March 5, 1920 – [PAGE 36] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 215-216. Reprinted as “My Dream House” – LHitO, 34.
March 20, 1920 – [PAGE 39] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 217-218. Reprinted as “Tired to Death With Work” – LHitO, 117; WYW:II, 96.
April 5, 1920 – [PAGE 34] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 218-219. Reprinted as “Our Next President” – LHitO, 60.
April 20, 1920 – [PAGE 27] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 219-220. Reprinted as “To Stand by Ourselves” – LHitO, 237.
May 5, 1920 – [PAGE 39] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 220-222. Article about Commodore Perry and air travel.
June 5, 1920 – [PAGE 27] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 222-223. Story about Quakers and infidels.
July 5, 1920 – [PAGE 27] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 223-225. Reprinted as “Parable of Wild Fruit” – LHitO, 87.
July 20, 1920 – [PAGE 29] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 225-226. Article about women working in the fields.
August 5, 1920 – [PAGE 23] [PAGE 24] “We Visit Arabia.” – LIW:FJ, 226-229.
August 20, 1920 – [PAGE 31] “The Farm Home” – LIW:FJ, 229-230. Reprinted as “When the Blues Descend” – LHitO, 138; WYW:I, 58. Reprinted as “Remember the Sabbath” – SG, 79.
September 5, 1920 – [PAGE 32] “Now We Visit Bohemia.” – LIW:FJ, 230-232.
September 20, 1920 – [PAGE 30] “Now We Visit Bohemia.” – LIW:FJ, 232-234.
October 5, 1920 – [PAGE 31] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 234-235. Reprinted in part as “Income and Expenses” – LHitO, 78.
October 20, 1920 – [PAGE 34] “Five Dollar Prize for Women,” by John F. Case.
October 20, 1920 – [PAGE 34] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 235-237. Reprinted as “Harvest of the Soul” – LHitO, 293.
November 5, 1920 – [PAGE 27] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 237-239. Article about a housewife’s duties.
December 5, 1920 – [PAGE 25] “The Farm Home.” – LIW:FJ, 239-240. Article about Rose Wilder Lane in Europe.
1921
January 5, 1921 – [PAGE 7] “Dear Farm Women.” – LIW:FJ, 241-242.
January 5, 1921 – [PAGE 23] “We Visit Paris Now.” – LIW:FJ, 242-243.
February 1, 1921 – [PAGE 17] “The Roads Women Travel.” – LIW:FJ, 244-245.
February 15, 1921 – [PAGE 29] “We Visit Poland.” – LIW:FJ, 245-246.
April 15, 1921 – [PAGE 19] “Women and Real Politics.” – LIW:FJ, 246-248.
June 1, 1921 – [PAGE 3] “Pioneering on an Ozark Farm: A Story of Folks Who Searched—and Found Health, Prosperity and a Wild Frontier in the Mountains of Our Own State.” – LHitO, 178; LHR: 80; WYW:II, 33; LIW:FJ, 249-253.
June 15, 1921 – [PAGE 17] “As a Farm Woman Thinks.” – LIW:FJ, 253-255. Article reprinted as “I Don’t Know What the World is Coming To” – LHitO, 83. Reprinted as “Forgetting Those Things Which Are Behind” – SG, 25.
July 1, 1921 – [PAGE 12] “From a Farm Woman to You.” – LIW:FJ, 255-256. Article about Rose Wilder Lane writing her mother about Prague.
August 1, 1921 – [PAGE 20] “When Grandma Pioneered.” – LHitO, 153; LHR, 89; WYW:II, 26; LIW:FJ, 257-259.
September 1, 1921 – [PAGE 20] “Mother, a Magic Word.” – LIW:FJ, 259-260. Reprinted as “Mother” in LHitO, 313.
September 15, 1921 – [PAGE 14] “A Homey Chat for Mothers: Are You Your Children’s Confidant?” – LIW:FJ, 260-261. Reprinted in part as “Are You Your Children’s Confidant?” – LHitO, 89. – Reprinted as “A Longing Unutterable Fills My Heart” – SG, 155.
November 1, 1921 – [PAGE 24] “As a Farm Woman Thinks.” – LIW:FJ, 261-262. Reprinted as “The Armor of a Smile” – LHitO, 301; SG, 73; WYW:I, 52.
November 15, 1921 – [PAGE 24] “As a Farm Woman Thinks.” – LIW:FJ, 262-263. Reprinted as “Thanks for the Harvest” – LHitO, 292; SG, 87.
1922
January 1, 1922 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 20. – LIW:FJ, 264-365. Reprinted as “We Keep Right on Eating” in LHitO, 95; WYW:I, 84.
February 1, 1922 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,”page 265. – LIW:FJ, 26. Reprinted as “The Light We Throw” in LHitO, 225; WYW:I, 64.
March 1, 1922 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 28. – LIW:FJ, 266. Reprinted as “Kind Hearts” in LHitO, 68; WYW:I, 23.
March 15, 1922 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 26. – LIW:FJ, 267. Reprinted as “The Woman’s Place” in LHitO, 199; WYW:II, 84.
April 15, 1922 – [IMAGE] “As in Days of Old,” page 36. – LIW:FJ, 267-268.
May 1, 1922 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 14. – LIW:FJ, 269. Reprinted as “Everyday Implications of the Golden Rule” – LHitO, 289; WYW:I, 25. Reprinted as “Putting First Things First” – SG, 9.
June 15, 1922 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 22. – LIW:FJ, 270. Article about rock crushing machine – Reprinted as “Far in the Future” – LHitO, 75.
July 1, 1922 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 29. – LIW:FJ, 271. Reprinted as “Times and Things” in LHitO, 152.
August 1, 1922 – [IMAGE] “How the Findleys Invest Their Money: These Missouri Parents Figure That Education of Their Boys and Girls Pay Bigger Dividends Than Pretty Clothes and Frivolous Pastimes,” page 1. – LIW:FJ, 271-275. Reprinted as “The Findleys Strive for an Education” – LHitO, 53.
August 15, 1922 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 27. – LIW:FJ, 275-276. Reprinted as “Having a Family Motto” – LHitO, 156.
September 1, 1922 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 20. – LIW:FJ, 276-277. Reprinted as “A Man’s Word is All He Has” – LHitO, 102; WYW:I, 31.
October 15, 1922 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks, ” page 27. – LIW:FJ, 277. Reprinted as “Success” in LHitO, 228.
November 1, 1922 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 20. – LIW:FJ, 278. Article reprinted as “Lesson from an Irish Fable” – LHitO, 114; WYW:I, 51
November 15, 1922 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 26. – LIW:FJ, 278-279. Article reprinted as “The Blessings of the Year” – LHitO, 286; SG, 63; WYW:I, 65.
December 1, 1922 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 22. – LIW:FJ, 279-280. Reprinted as “Not So Bad Off” – LHitO, 304. [Note: This article has no byline attributing it to Mrs. Wilder.]
1923
January 1, 1923 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 20. – LIW:FJ, 281-282. Article reprinted as “Growing Older” – LHitO, 105. [Note: This article has no byline attributing it to Mrs. Wilder.]
January 15, 1923 – [IMAGE] “Hitching Up for Family Team Work: The Oettings of Wright County, Building on the Sure Foundation of Faith and Industry, Have Made Ozark Farming Pay,” page 3. – LIW:FJ, 282-285. Article about the Oetting family of Wright County. Reprinted in part as “A Fool and His Son are Soon Parted” – LHitO, 134.
April 1, 1923 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 30. – LIW:FJ, 285-287. Reprinted as “Love of Home” – LHitO, 73.
April 15, 1923 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 32. – LIW:FJ, 287-288. Article reprinted as “Going After the Cows” – LHitO, 119; WYW:II, 112.
May 15, 1923 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 22. – LIW:FJ, 288-289. Reprinted as “Daily Tasks are Not Small Things” – LHitO, 206.
July 1, 1923 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 16. – LIW:FJ, 289-290. Reprinted as “Be True to Yourself” – LHitO, 71.
July 1, 1923 – [IMAGE] “About Folks You Know and Ruralist Family News,” page 10. Notes regarding Laura Wilder’s work on the Ruralist and on the Star Farmer.
August 1, 1923 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 18. – LIW:FJ, 290-291. Reprinted as “The Sunflower” – LHS, 172. Reprinted as “Home” – LHitO, 64. Reprinted as “Compass Needle to the Star” in SG, 5.
November 1, 1923 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 22. – LIW:FJ, 291-292. Reprinted as “Heirs of the Ages” – LHitO, 47. Reprinted as “Our Stewardship of the Earth” – SG, 103.
November 15, 1923 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 16. – LIW:FJ, 292-293. Article reprinted as “Thanks for Benefits Bestowed” – LHitO, 291.
December 1, 1923 – IMAGE 1] [IMAGE 2] “What Makes My County Great, And why I’m proud to be a citizen,” pages 1, 12. – LIW:FJ, 293-297. A portion of the article reprinted as “Our Little Place in the Ozarks” – LHitO, 24.
1924
January 1, 1924 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 34. – LIW:FJ, 298-299. Article reprinted as “The Things That Matter” in LHitO, 311; WYW:I, 82.
January 15, 1924 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 20. – Review of Mabel Elliot book.
January 15, 1924 – [IMAGE] “The Fairs That Build Men: Where Citizens of Tomorrow Are Trained,” page 23. – LIW:FJ, 300-302. Reprinted in LHR as “The Fairs That Build Men,” 111-114.
February 1, 1924 – [IMAGE 1] [IMAGE 2] “Turkeys Bring $1,000 a Year: Where Secret of Success Is ‘Love Them,'” pages 26-27. – LIW:FJ, 302-305.
February 1, 1924 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks” – LIW:FJ, 306.
March 1, 1924 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 31. – LIW:FJ, 306-307. Article reprinted as “Pies and Poetry” – LHitO, 282.
April 1, 1924 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks. Volume 65, Number 19, page 31. – LIW:FJ, 307-308. Article about music as discussion topic at club meeting. Reprinted as “Learning Something New” – WYW:I, 110.
May 15, 1924 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks.” Volume 65, Number 22, page 16. – LIW:FJ, 308-309. Article reprinted as “Our Brains – and Providence” – LHitO, 62.
June 1, 1924 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 16. – LIW:FJ, 309-310. Reprinted as “Mother Passed Away” – LHitO, 315. Reprinted as “Mother” – SG, 163.
June 15, 1924 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 16. – LIW:FJ, 310. Article about national costumes.
September 1, 1924 – [IMAGE] “About Folks You Know,” page 11. (Not an article by Laura Ingalls Wilder.) Rose Wilder Lane And Mrs. A.J. Wilder mentioned in segment titled “An Ozark Writer,” about another area author.
December 15, 1924 – [IMAGE] “As a Farm Woman Thinks,” page 16 – LIW:FJ, 311-312. Reprinted as “Christmas when I was Sixteen” – LHitO, 69. Reprinted as “Home for Christmas” – LHS, 37.
1925
April 15, 1925 – [IMAGE] “About Folks You Know” (Rose Wilder Lane mentioned)
1931
April 1, 1931 – [IMAGE] “Spic, Span—and Beauty: How a Home Responds to Springtime Touches,” pages 5, 12. – LIW:FJ, 313-315.
BOOK TITLE ABBREVIATIONS.
WFH refers to West From Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder to Almanzo Wilder, edited by Roger Lea MacBride (New York: Harper & Row), 1974.
LHS refers to A Little House Sampler, edited by William T. Anderson, originally published in 1988 by the University of Nebraska Press. Reprinted in 1989 and later years by Harper&Row, then HarperCollins.
LHitO refers to articles reprinted in Little House in the Ozarks, edited by Stephen W. Hines, published in 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
LIW:AFC refers to articles reprinted in Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Family Collection, edited by Richard Marshall, published in 1993 by Barnes & Noble. This book contained non-edited Ruralist articles, including many not included in the earlier Hines publication.
IRL refers to I Remember Laura, edited by Stephen W. Hines, published in 1994 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
SG refers to Saving Graces: The Inspirational Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder, edited by Stephen Hines, published in 1997 by Broadman & Holman Publishers.
LHR refers to A Little House Reader: A Collection of Writings by Laura Ingalls Wilder, edited by William Anderson, published in 1998 by HarperCollins.
WYW:I refers to articles reprinted in Volume I: Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder on Wisdom & Virtues, edited by Stephen W. Hines, published in 2006 by Tommy Nelson.
WYW:II refers to articles reprinted in Volume II: Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder on Life as a Pioneer Woman, edited by Stephen W. Hines, published in 2006 by Tommy Nelson.
WYW:III refers to an article reprinted in Volume III: Writings to Young Women on Laura Ingalls Wilder as Told by Her Family, Friends, & Neighbors, edited by Stephen W. Hines, published in 2006 by Tommy Nelson.
LIW:FJ refers to articles reprinted in Laura Ingalls Wilder: Farm Journalist, edited by Stephen W. Hines, published in 2007 by University of Missouri Press.
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