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neilrcoulter 's review for:
The First Four Years
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Can something good please happen to these people? It almost becomes absurd, the number of terrible things that happen in the first four years. Any time there's a comment about "This year, we'll make so much money from the harvest!" the whole family groans: What is it this time--hailstorm? fire? blizzard? plague of locusts? I'm sure this is an accurate portrayal of the incredible hardships the pioneers faced, but at a certain point you just wonder if maybe South Dakota wasn't meant to be farmed. I also assume that if Laura had finished this book during her lifetime, she would have added in the little details that make the other books in the series such fun: social events in town, family news, national events, and so forth.