I don't have my copy yet, but black panthers have a VERY long and quite detailed history in the USA, going back to the first settlement of the country. Lauren Coleman collected a lot of the accounts and evidence in one of his chapters of _Mysterious America_.
Perhaps if Hill had used that evidence, then, but she didn't - she used a questionable Times Picayune story. Though, I just checked Amazon, and I can see why she perhaps wouldn't have wanted to cite a 1983 book that also discusses the possible sightings of Bigfoot and the Jersey Devil
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I have a copy on hold at the library, I might be able to read it by next year. Maybe.
That said, a few things.
1) According to NPR, Lane and Wilder did, in fact, collaborate on the books, as proved by the letters they wrote back and forth.
2) Actually, I rather liked the articles and many of them were fairly poetic. (There is actually a book of the farm articles. I actually have two copies of it, by accident. I should send you one.) Heck, Wilder wrote articles about fairies for farm papers.
3) According to NPR, again, Lane was one of the founding members of Libertarian thought. As a side note, this does not endear Lane to me in the slightest. If you read any of the Roger Lea MacBride books about Rose's childhood, (and MacBride was an "adoptive grandson",) she still comes out as being basically selfish and unlikeable, but that might be me and my anti-Libertarian leanings.
That said, I want to read the footnotes for myself, among other things.
It's not just NPR: the critical consensus is that Lane and Wilder collaborated on the Little House books, and that they are basically co-written texts. The only person really trying to argue against this and put Wilder forward as the main/sole author seems to be Hill. It's particularly odd given that she's annotating a text that seems to be pretty strong evidence for the theory that Lane and Wilder didn't just collaborate; Lane rewrote all eight books.
Lane also edited most of Laura's farming articles.
The Libertarian part is also true - Lane and Ayn Rand were two of the major founding members. Based just on the text in this book, I think that the very strong Libertarian strain in the Little House books was almost entirely Lane - not to say that Wilder didn't agree with those political positions; it's just that this text is not really a Libertarian manifesto, and portions of the Little House books are
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I probably won't, there's about 360 people ahead of me and only 7 copies in the system.
I was going to respond to this comment with some form of intelligence, but it's been a lousy day and I can't really think all that well right now, sorry.
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That said, a few things.
1) According to NPR, Lane and Wilder did, in fact, collaborate on the books, as proved by the letters they wrote back and forth.
2) Actually, I rather liked the articles and many of them were fairly poetic. (There is actually a book of the farm articles. I actually have two copies of it, by accident. I should send you one.) Heck, Wilder wrote articles about fairies for farm papers.
3) According to NPR, again, Lane was one of the founding members of Libertarian thought. As a side note, this does not endear Lane to me in the slightest. If you read any of the Roger Lea MacBride books about Rose's childhood, (and MacBride was an "adoptive grandson",) she still comes out as being basically selfish and unlikeable, but that might be me and my anti-Libertarian leanings.
That said, I want to read the footnotes for myself, among other things.
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Lane also edited most of Laura's farming articles.
The Libertarian part is also true - Lane and Ayn Rand were two of the major founding members. Based just on the text in this book, I think that the very strong Libertarian strain in the Little House books was almost entirely Lane - not to say that Wilder didn't agree with those political positions; it's just that this text is not really a Libertarian manifesto, and portions of the Little House books are ( ... )
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I was going to respond to this comment with some form of intelligence, but it's been a lousy day and I can't really think all that well right now, sorry.
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