Wilder on the Prairie

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Episode 122 - SSL - Breaking Camp Sep 01, 2024

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Episode 122

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 13 "Breaking Camp"

Join us this week as we discuss "Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid (Nobody Asked You", Lena's ultimate fate, Jean's fate, Pa seeing in shades of grey, Brookings South Dakota, Robery Abey Boast, and what a sherriff did in the late 1800s.

Episode 121 - SSL - Wings Over Silver Lake Aug 25, 2024

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Episode 121

Chapter 12 of By the Shores of Silver Lake "Wings Over Silver Lake"

Join us this week as we discuss brant, redheads, bluebills, canvasbacks, teals, mudhens, hell-divers, swans in South Dakota, Uncle Henry, Louisa, and Charley's fate, Pa earned $300, and the Ingalls girls becoming teachers.

Episode 120 - SSL - Pay Day Aug 18, 2024

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Episode 120

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 11 "Pay Day"

Join us this week as we discuss Laura helping Pa with haying?, $1,000 in cash, Pa's revolver, rifle, and shotgun.

Episode 119 - SSL - The Wonderful Afternoon Aug 12, 2024

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Episode 119

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 10 "The Wonderdul Afternoon"

Join us this week as we discuss "A Life on the Ocean Wave", "Buy a Broom", Ma's opinion of Lena, Fresno scrapers, and Mary not supporting Laura's ventures.

Episode 118 - SSL - Horse Thieves Aug 04, 2024

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Episode 118

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 9 "Horse Thieves"

Join us this week as we discuss mashed potato cakes, bushwhack, brushing your hair 100 strokes a night, Ma stroking Laura's hair, and clearing up the confusion for this chapter.

Episode 117 - SSL - Silver Lake Jul 28, 2024

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Episode 117

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 8 "Silver Lake"

Join us this week as the discuss seagulls in South Dakota, the Big Slough, what graders do, bedlam, ticking mattresses, where did Mary's rocking chair come from?, Stebbins' camp, pelicans in South Dakota, quonking, purple buffalo bean pods/ground plums/buffalo plums, and Mary laughing.

Episode 116 - SSL - Where the West Begins Jul 21, 2024

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Episode 116

By the Shores of Silver Lake chapter 7 "Where the West Begins"

Join us this week as we discuss the Big Sioux River, buffalo wallows, the 1800s buffalo population, "Uncle Sam's Farm", the James River, and where is Aunt Polly?

Episode 115 - SSL - The Black Ponies Jul 14, 2024

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Episode 115

By the Shores of Silver Lake, chapter 6 "The Black Ponies"

Join us this week as we discuss the difference between ponies and horses, cooking for 46 people 3 times a day, what the washing exactly was they were hiring out?, hames and traces and whippletrees, "Beware!", "A Railroad Man for Me", and the character of Lizzie marrying at 13.

Episode 114 - SSL - Railroad Camp Jul 07, 2024

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Episode 114

By the Shores of Silver Lake, ch. 5 "Railroad Camp"

Join us this week as we discuss Laura preferring old-fashioned travel, "teamsters", "shanty", "peaked", and Ma and Laura cleaned their lunch site.

Episode 113 - SSL - End of the Rails Jun 30, 2024

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Episode 113

By the Shores of Silver Lake, chapter 4 "End of the Rails"

Join us this week as we discuss the role of firemen, "There Is a Happy Land", Mary's sensitive fingers, and the cost of the meal.