|
C
cabbage
boiled with meat
seeds
cabin
cake
birthday
cake-pans
cornmeal / corn-cakes
fruitcake
heart-shaped
hoe-cake
Johnny / johnny-cake
journey-cake
layer
mashed potato
Patty Cake
pound-cake
sugar-white / sugar-frosted / white-frosted
two-egg
vanity
wedding
caldron
calendar
calico
French
sprigged
California
callus
cambric tea
cameo
Campbells
Are Coming, The
Camptown Races
Canada
Canada peas
candle
candle-flame
candle-light / candlelight
"from candle-light to candle-light"
"hold a candle to"
making / candle-making
mold / candle-mold
using a candle to test for good air in the well
wick / candle-wicking
candy
candy-pull
Christmas
hearts
horehound
lemon sticks
Lucy's teeth stick together with candy
maple sugar
mosquito bar bags / cheesecloth bags / striped paper bags of
molasses on snow
peppermint
peppermint balls
pulled
sticks
cannon
cant
cant-pole / cant-hook
canter
canvas
canvasback
cap, head covering
brakeman's
bougjhten
conductor's
coonskin
felt
fur
"hair stood up until it lifted my cap"
muskrat
night-cap / nightcap
peaked / pointed
plush
rabbit-skin
raised / lifted / touched cap
"setting her cap for him"
with earflaps / earmuffs
cap, for gun
cape
fur shouldercape
Cape of Good Hope
capital
building at Des Moines
building at Omaha
in Rome, mentioned in the Speech of Regulus
Capitol
Capitol in Washington, D.C.
capstan
Captain Jinks
car
carload
emigrant
freight
flat
handcar
railroad
Card family
Alma, see also Dolly Varden; see blog 26 October 2005
Joseph & Ruby
carding / carding-machine
"Caroline Years, The," see spinoffs
carpenter
carpenter's pencil
carpenter work / carpentering work
carpet
beating carpets to clean them
carpet-rags
grass made a green carpet
rag-carpet
tacks
carpet-bag
Carroll, John
carrot
boiled
candied
carrot-bins
creamed
planting
seeds
used to color butter
cartridge, gun
Case, Mr.
"I'd rather a nimble sixpence than a slow shilling"
store
cashmere
castor
cat / kitten
"as a cat torments a mouse"
barn cat
Black Susan, see Black Susan
blue cat fur, see blog 17 August 2005
C-A-T, cat
cat-and-mouse fight
cat-hole
"curiousity killed a cat"
"dark as a stack of black cats!" see blog 29 March 2007
"embarrassed by a cat's generosity"
fraidy-cat
gentle as kittens
"he moved as beautifully as a cat"
innocent as a kitten
Kitty, see Kitty
kitten crawls under Laura's hoops at church
having nine lives
"lightfooted as a cat"
panther, see panther
story of the big cat and the little cat
tabby / tabby-barn-cat
wild, see wildcat
catamount screech
cat-call
catch-stitching
catechism
catfish, see also bullhead
cat's cradle
cattle / cow / calf
"bawl like a calf"
bells
Blossom and Bossy
"brought our milk on the hoof"
calfskin
cow-bells
cowboys sing the cattle to sleep
cowhide
Devons
Durhams
drifting in the October blizzard
dry
Ellen
Ellen's calves
Fawn
Guenseys
herds
killing a calf for rennet
in the hay
Jerseys
milch / milk cow
milking
Mr. Scott given cow and calf
Rosie
Sukey
Texas Longhorns
"Wreath of Roses" / Reet / Spot
yearling
caw
cedar, tree
ceil / ceiled
cellar
cyclone cellar
"down cellar in a teacup"
certificate
second grade / second-grade
teacher's
third grade
chaff
challis
chapel
charade, see also blog 7 February 2006
Charley (Laura's cousin), see Quiner, Charles
Charley (Laura's classmate in De Smet), see Power, Charles
punished for getting up off a pin
Charlotte, doll
Anna Nelson won't give up Charlotte
received at Christmas
rescued, frozen in a puddle
"Charlotte Years, The," see spinoffs
checkers
checker board, see blog 11 April 2005
cheese
apple pie with
cheesecloth
cottage / balls
green, see also Old Grimes
head-cheese / headcheese
hoop
making / cheese-making
moon made of green cheese
press
skim-milk-cheese, see also Old Grimes
chemise
cherry, see also ground cherry, chokecherry
cherry-red
nose redder than
pie, see also Billy
Boy
tree
wool dyed red as
chestnut
horse chestnut
chewing gum
Chicago
Chicago Inter-Ocean / Inter-Ocean
chicken / hen
chicken pie / chicken-pie
coop
"counting chickens before they're hatched"
eating grasshoppers
feeding
fried
hash
henhouse
laying
nests hidden
not laying
prairie chicken, see prairie chicken
roast / roasted
"ruffled, like an angry hen"
"scarcer than hen's teeth"
setting a hen
spring chicken
"whistling girls and crowing hens, always come to some bad ends"
chilblain
"children should be seen and not heard"
chimney
chimney holder, lamp part
fire in the chimney
lamp
making a stone chimney
prairie chimney
Santa Claus coming down the chimney
stick-and-daub
China
china shepherdess / woman
chink
Chinook
chip
"chip in"
make the chips fly
chipmunk
chipper
chirk
chirrup
"Chisel in hand stood the sculptor boy," see "The Sculptor Boy"
choke-cherry
wild choke-cherry jelly
chopping block / chopping-block
chops
"licking their chops"
chord
chores
chore time / chore-time
"no chore at all"
Christmas
barrel
candy
"Christmas comes but once a year"
Christmas in May
dinner / feast
eve
horses
box
Laura and Mary make button-string for Carrie
Laura and Mary receive a cake, penny, tin cup, and candy
Laura receives Charlotte, candy, and mittens
Laura receives jewel box, mittens, candy, popcorn ball, and furs
Pa lost in a storm
Pa makes bracket for Ma
stocking / sock
star
tree
turkey
white
chum
church
church bell / churchbell
churchyard
collection-box
dinner
first service in De Smet
organizing
papers
sheds
sociables
wedding
churn
cider
cider-apples
cider-mill
half-pint of sweet cider
cindery
cipher
circus
circus horses
civilized
Civil War
claim
claim jumper
filing
holding down a claim
proving up
selling relinquishment
shanty
take a claim / take up a claim
tree claim
Clancy family, see Clayson, Chauncey
Mr.
Mrs. Clancy
Clancy's store / drygoods
"no flies on Clancy"
clapboard
Clarence (student in De Smet school)
clasp
clasp / unclasp hands
ring
steel
clay
Clayson, Chauncey
clearing
clearing up
throats
tracks
Clewett, Frank
cliff
red earth / red-earth
clinched nail, see blog 8 August 2006
cloak
clock
chime / strike
clearing throat
clock-shelf
o'clock
whirring / warning wheeze
winding
clockwork
clog-dancing
cloth
broad-cloth
cheesecloth
dish-cloth
dust-cloth
fullcloth
hair-cloth / haircloth
store-bought
table cloth
washcloth
"we must cut our coat to fit the cloth"
clothes-line / clothesline / line
clove apple / clove-apple
clover
clover-like
clover-shaped
coal
coal-black
coal heater / stove
coal hod
coals
coal smoke
hard coal
soft-coal
cobbler
cobbler's bench
cockerel
codfish
balls
salt
gravy
cold snap
collection-box
college
college for the blind
college money
Columbus, Christopher
colt
Laura rolled like a colt
mule-colt
Comanches
yell like Comanhes
comb, hair
combing hair up off the ears
fine-comb
ivory-backed
rubber
tight-combed
Come In and Shut the Door
comforter
Coming
Through the Rye
Commentators on the Ac's, see blog 7 February 2006 / blog 19 January 2007
commissioner
county
complex sentence
complex-compound sentence
compound sentence
composition
Conductor
congregation
Congregational
church
minister
Congress
Congress of Confederated Colonies
Congressman
constitution
United States Constitution
consumption
prairie cure / prairie-climate cure
continued story
contract
railroad
teaching
contractor
contralto
cookie
cooky
Cooley family, see also Cooley article from the Rocky Ridge Review
Frank
Emma
Paul
George
coonskin cap
coop, chicken / hen
copper
copper plate
copper-toed shoes
kettle
pots
coral
cord, wood
corn
animal feed
bread
burning for fuel
cob doll
corncrib
cornmeal cakes / corn-cakes
cornshuck bed
dodgers
dried
fodder
green
hasty pudding
husking
johnny-cake
journey-cake
laid by
meal
mush / fried mush, see blog 7 September 2006
"one for the blackbird, one for the crow..."
parched
planting
red-white-and-blue
roasting ears
seed corn
shocked
silks
sod corn
white
yellow
cornflower
cornice
Corse, Mr.
corset
corset-cover
strings
cottage cheese
balls
cottonwood, tree
planting on homestead
country girl
County Fair
courting
Couse, Edward
Couse's Hardware
cousin
Abner, see Day, Abner
Albert, see Quiner, Albert
Alice, see Ingalls, Alice
baby / babies
Charley, see Quiner, Charles
Dolly Varden, see Card, Alma
Ella, see Ingalls, Ella
Frank, see Day, Frank
Fred, see Day, Fred
James
Jean, see Waldvogel, Eugene
John
Lena, see Waldvogel, Lena
Lily, see Quiner, Thomas family
Louisa, see Quiner, Louisa
Mary, see Day, Carrie May
Peter, see Ingalls, Peter
coverlet
cowboy
coyote
crab, see crawfish
crab-apple
jelly
cracker
box / barrel
doll-crackers
oyster
soda
Swedish
crackling
crackling cornbread
cradle, hand
cranberry
jelly / sauce
crane
cravat
crawfish
cream
creamed vegetables
dressing for vegetables
melted like cream
pie
pitcher
cream-colored
cream of tartar
creek
bank
bluffs
bottoms
creek bed / creek-bed
French Creek
Plum Creek
road
traps set along
willow creek
cricket
"Jerusalem crickets!"
"jiminy crickets"
crinoline
crochet
lace, see also blog 18 April 2005 / blog 15 June 2005 / blog 4 January 2006
needles
nubia
rag rug
crock
crockery
crocus
cross-stitch
crow, see also blog 28 July 2005
"black as a crow"
"one for the blackbird, one for the crow"
"whistling girls and crowing hens..."
Crusades
crying shame
cucumber
pickles
salting down
cud, chewing
cupola
curd
curler
curl-papers
rag / string curlers
slate pencil
curlew
curry
currycomb
"a short horse is soon curried"
custard ( FB 18; LTP 17)
ice-cream (FB 18)
pie (FB 21)
cut
big cut / Big Tracy Cut
cut and fill
cutter
cutter-bar
cyclone
cellar
season / weather
| back to top |
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
|
