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A whole lot of printer ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most important characters, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to accelerate on the lives of America's most significant women and men in enough time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long neglected or never known. "In the past, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little children and girls or very small babies, or simply not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie still left their little house in the best Woods of Wisconsin." So starts the to begin some primarily autobiographical books for children that could give 20th century America a look at what it was like when the country was still young and the Western was a generally empty, untamed wilderness. These were written by a woman who had experienced a hardscrabble frontier life, Laura Ingalls Wilder, plus they were first released in the 1930s, when the United States desperately needed a reminder that "a down economy don't previous but difficult people do." Furthermore to giving People in america a nostalgic glimpse of days gone by, the books were a reminder of the country's unique spirit and idea that effort can defeat any obstacle.