L

 

lace

collar

crocheted, see blog 18 April 2005 / blog 15 June 2005 / blog 4 January 2006

cuffs

curtains

doily

frills

knitted

jabot

machine-made

mitts

ruffles

wooden

Ladies' Aid Society

ladle

Lady

Lake City, Minnesota

lake

Lake Chateaugay

Lake Henry

lake of violets

Lake Pepin

Lake Thompson

Silver Lake

Slough-lakes

Spirit Lake

Twin Lakes / twin lakes, Henry and Thompson

lamb, see sheep

"Mary's Little Lamb"

lamp

bracket-lamp

brass-bottomed

button lamp, see also blog 5 July 2005

chimney

lamp burning in the window

lamp-light / lamplight / lamplit

lamp mat

parlor

wick

land

agent

land office / Land Office

land office business

Lane, Jonas

Lane, Rose Wilder

high school graduation, see blog 10 March 2005

only known recording of her voice, see blog 5 March 2007

lanten

lantern light / lantern-light / lanternlight

lard

trying out the lard

larkspur

last, see blog 6 September 2006

latch

door-latch

latch-string / latchstring

"latchstring is always out!"

making

lath

Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society, De Smet, South Dakota

Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Walnut Grove, Minnesota

Laura Ingalls Wilder Park and Museum, Burr Oak, Iowa

Laura take them off again, see Polly Put the Kettle On

lawn

Lazy John

Lazy, lousy, Lizy Jane, see also Wilder, Eliza Jane

lead

pencil

lean-to

leap-frog

leather

"as brown as" / leather-brown

greasing

making

"riding hell bent for leather"

leech

legal cap

legging

lemon

candy

lemonade

lemonade-stand

pink lemonade

lemon verbena

Lena (Laura's cousin), see Waldvogel, Lena

Lend a Helping Hand

lesson

lettuce

level

lever

on hay press

on mowing machine

on organ

Lewis, Miles

lice

lichen

"lick and a promise"

lie

"It served the little liar right"

lie-abed

lief

Life Let Us Cherish

Life on the Ocean Wave, A

lilac

Lilly Dale / Lily Dale

lily, see tiger lily

lily-of-the-valley

lime - see also oyster

whitewash

linen

lines

lingo

Lincoln, Abraham

debate: "Resolved: That Lincoln was a greater man than Washington"

lion, see also The Polar and Tropical Worlds (Pa's big green animal book)

"better a live dog than a dead lion"

lion tamer

"when March comes in like a lamb, it goes out like a lion"

liquor, see also pot-liquor

"Listen, my children, and you shall hear..." - see "Paul Revere's Ride"

literary

Literary Society / Literaries

literature, see also specific titles from literature

Little Annie Rooney

Little Annie Rooney is my sweetheart, see Little Annie Rooney

little house

Little House in the Big Woods (book)

Little House on the Prairie (book)

Little House on the Prairie historic site, near Independence, Kansas

"Little House, Big Adventure ™" books

Little House Chapter books

"Little House"® historic homesites and museums

Ingalls Homestead, De Smet, South Dakota

Keystone Area Historical Society, Keystone, South Dakota

Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum, Mansfield, Missouri

Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society, De Smet, South Dakota

     Laura Ingalls Wilder LORE, newsletter of the LIW Memorial Society

Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Walnut Grove, Minnesota

Laura Ingalls Wilder Park and Museum, Burr Oak, Iowa

Little House on the Prairie historic site, near Independence, Kansas

Pepin, Wisconsin, Birthplace of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Wilder Homestead, Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder Association, Malone, New York

"Little House on the Prairie, the Musical," see also blog 17 March 2007

little town, see De Smet

Ingalls Homestead, De Smet, South Dakota

Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society, De Smet, South Dakota

Little Town on the Prairie (book)

livery

livery barn

liveryman

Livery, Sale and Feed Stable

Pearson's livery barn

stable

Livingston's Africa, see also Wonders of the Animal World

lizard

panted like lizards

Lizzie (Carrie's friend in De Smet)

locket

locomotive

locust

Biblical plague of locusts

loft

lofty

Loftus, Daniel

Loftus Groceries, Dry Goods, and General Merchandize / Loftus' Store / Dry Goods and Groceries

log

logging

camps

crews

hauling

"like a bump on a log"

log drives

Lone Cottonwood / Lone Tree

longhorn

long winter / hard winter

The Long Winter

looking glass / looking-glass

glass

lookout

"That's not my lookout"

loom, see also weaving

loomed up

LORE, Laura Ingalls Wilder (newsletter from LIW Memorial Society, De Smet)

"Lost, between sunrise and sunset..."

"Lotos Eaters, The"

Lotty (Laura's aunt), see Holbrook, Charlotte

Louis

Louisa, see Quiner, Louisa

Louizy (Carrie's friend in De Smet)

love

"In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love"

love songs

namecard motto

Love’s Old Sweet Song

low

lowland

lullaby

lumber

burning for fuel

camps

"fifty dollars a thousand"

lumberjack

lumber-mill

lumber-yard / lumberyard, see also Ely, Charles

lumber wagon / lumber-wagon

sawed lumber / sawed-lumber

pine lumber

lumbering

lunatic fringe

lurch

lye

lynch-pin

lynx

 

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