A Wilder Rose 2 (Pages 39 - 165)

 In the book Rose tells us how her parents moved to Mansfield, Missouri when she was young. 

The farmhouse where they lived was called Rocky Ridge. The Laura Ingalls Wilder House is a historic house museum at 3060 Highway A in Mansfield, Missouri. Also known as Rocky Ridge Farm, it was the home of author Laura Ingalls Wilder from 1896 until her death in 1957. The author of the Little House on the Prairie series, Wilder began writing the series while living there. The house, together with the nearby Rock Cottage on the same property, represents one of the few surviving places where she resided. 

Rose went to live with her aunt Eliza Jane Wilder in Crowley, Louisiana, where she graduated in high school. Her mother didn't like Eliza as she had been her teacher. 

1929 was the year when economy collapsed. In the book Rose enumerates the things that happened during that year.

On Valentine's Day Al Capone's gang gunned down 7 members of Bugs Moran's gang. At 10:30 in the morning on Saint Valentine's Day, Thursday, February 14, 1929, seven men were murdered at the garage at 2122 North Clark Street, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago's North Side. They were shot by four men using weapons that included two Thompson submachine guns.

Herbert Hoover swore as president. Rose had written his biography.

The first all-colour talking picture was On With the Show premiered in 1929 too. 

The first Academy Awards were held in 1929. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Douglas Fairbanks, honored the best films from 1 August 1927 to 31 July 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.

Charles LIndbergh got married. Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator and military officer. On May 20–21, 1927, he made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris.

Wyatt Earp died in that year too. Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American lawman in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone. 

Then the recession struck. Rose mentions Black Thursday and Black Monday. 

The Wall Street crash is most associated with October 24, 1929, called "Black Thursday", when 12.9 million shares were traded on the stock exchange in a single day.

Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote Pioneer Girl, which Rose thought was unpublishable, and from this first memoir her books came afterwards. Pioneer Girl includes stories that Wilder felt were inappropriate for children: e.g., a man accidentally immolating himself while drunk, and an incident of extreme violence of a local shopkeeper against his wife, which ended with his setting their house on fire. She also describes previously unknown facets of her father's character.

Rose goes to New York to find a new agent, and she housesits for her friend Dorothy Thompson, whose husband was Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature. 

Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Dorothy Celene Thompson (July 9, 1893 – January 30, 1961) was an American journalist and radio broadcaster.

Rose wrote a book about Caroline and Charles Ingalls, Let the Hurricane Roar'. Lane's most popular short stories and her two most commercially successful novels were fueled by material which was taken directly from Wilder's recollections of Ingalls-Wilder family folklore. Let the Hurricane Roar (later titled Young Pioneers) and Free Land both addressed the difficulties of homesteading in the Dakotas in the late 19th century.

Rose ghoswrote for some writers. One was Lowell Thomas. Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveler. 

The first two books that Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote for children helped by her daughter. The first one was Little House in the Big Woods and the second one, based on Almanzo's childhood, was Farmer Boy. 

Little House in the Big Woods is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Harper in 1932 . It was Wilder's first book published and it inaugurated her Little House series. It is based on memories of her early childhood in the Big Woods near Pepin, Wisconsin, in the early 1870s.

Farmer Boy is a children's historical novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1933. It was the second-published one in the Little House series but it is not related to the first, which that of the third directly continues. Thus the later Little House on the Prairie is sometimes called the second one in the series, or the second volume of "the Laura Years".