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Books About Rose

Laura's Rose by William T. Anderson
ISBN: 0961008830
Publication Date: 1984-01-01
This slim volume is the best introduction available. This series is heavily revised and updated with every edition, so try to find the newest one you can – 1976 is the original edition.
Rose Wilder Lane by Rose W. Lane; Roger Lea MacBride
ISBN: 0812860772
Publication Date: 1991-01-01
This widely owned biography is actually a novel Lane wrote loosely based on her life that MacBride changed a few details in to bring it a little closer to Rose’s actual life up to approximately 1920. Versions of the novel were also published as "Bachelor Girl" and "Diverging Roads" by Rose Wilder Lane.

These are books about Rose Wilder Lane.

The Ghost in the Little House by William Holtz
ISBN: 0826208878
Publication Date: 1993-05-01
Up to this point the only true scholarly biography of Lane, it reintroduced her to the scholarly world.
Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder by John E. Miller
ISBN: 082621648X
Publication Date: 2006-01-31
This Wilder biography also serves to balance some of the claims made in Holtz’s work. If you read one, read both.
Credo by Peter Bagge
ISBN: 1770463410
Publication Date: 2019-04-16
Black Lambs and Grey Falcons by John B. Allcock (Editor); Antonia Young (Editor); Valerie Alia
ISBN: 1571817441
Publication Date: 2000-12-01
Features a chapter on Rose and Albania.
Dorothy Thompson and Rose Wilder Lane by William Holtz (Editor)
ISBN: 0826206468
Publication Date: 1991-04-01
The Lady and the Tycoon by Roger Lea MacBride
ISBN: 0870042343
Publication Date: 1973-01-01
A Little House Sampler by Laura Ingalls Wilder; Rose W. Lane; William T. Anderson (Editor)
ISBN: 0060972408
Publication Date: 1995-04-14
A Little House Reader by Laura Ingalls Wilder; William T. Anderson; Dan Andreasen (Illustrator)
ISBN: 006026358X
Publication Date: 1998-02-28
The Rediscovered Writings of Rose Wilder Lane by Amy Mattson Lauters (Editor, Introduction by)
ISBN: 0826217214
Publication Date: 2007-03-09
Rose Wilder Lane's San Francisco by Trini Wenninger
ISBN: 1105082245
Publication Date: 2005
Travels with Zenobia by Rose W. Lane; Helen D. Boylston; William Holtz (Editor)
ISBN: 0826203906
Publication Date: 1983-04-01
Writers of Conviction by Julia Ehrhardt
ISBN: 0826215068
Publication Date: 2004-02-22
A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert
ISBN: 9781477849606
Publication Date: 2015-03-17
An authorized fictionalization of Rose Wilder Lane's diaries.
Libertarians on the Prairie by Christine Woodside
ISBN: 1628726563
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
A book that argues Rose Wilder Lane and her political beliefs were the driving force behind the "Little House" books.
Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser
ISBN: 1627792767
Publication Date: 2017-11-21
A Pulitzer Prize winning biography by the scholar behind the "Library of America" edition of Wilder's books. While nominally about Laura, it has a major focus on her daughter Rose Wilder Lane.
Freedom's Furies by Timothy Sandefur
ISBN: 1952223431
Publication Date: 2022-11-01

Books By Rose

The Discovery of Freedom by Rose W. Lane; Roger Lea MacBride (Foreword by); Hans F. Sennholz (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0930073002
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
Islam and the Discovery of Freedom by Rose W. Lane; Imadad D. Ahmad
ISBN: 0915957736
Publication Date: 1997-08-01
Faces at the Window by Rose W. Lane
Publication Date: 1972
Free Land by Rose W. Lane; Rose Lane; Rose Wilder Lane
ISBN: 0803279140
Publication Date: 1984-10-01
Home Over Saturday by Rose W. Lane
Old Home Town by Rose Wilder Lane
ISBN: 0803279175
Publication Date: 1985-11-01
Young Pioneers by Rose Wilder Lane; Dan Andreasen (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0064406989
Publication Date: 1998-09-05
Peaks of Shala by Rose Wilder Lane
Publication Date: 1923
A travel novel based on Rose Wilder Lane's trip to Albania in the early 1920s.
Woman's Day Book of American Needlework by Rose Wilder Lane

Websites About Rose

Three Women Who Launched a Movement: Rose Wilder Lane (The Cato Institute
Written with a focus on her political work, this essay offers a non-“Little House” view on her life.

Find out more about Rose Wilder Lane on these websites:

Rose Wilder Lane
The Library of Congress offers this transcript of a short handwritten autobiography of Rose. Note the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids reference near the end.
Rose Wilder Lane
This website contains information about Rose Wilder Lane.
Rose Wilder Lane Articles
Most libraries provide a password to EBSCOhost as one of their many services. This page gives you direct links to some of Rose’s articles in full text, if you have access to EBSCO.

Search Terms and Subjects

Search Terms (Use for computer searches)

“Rose Wilder Lane”
“Little House” books
“Libertarian Party”
"Roger Lea MacBride”

Subject Headings (Use in catalogs and print indexes)

Lane, Rose Wilder 1886-1968
Libertarian Party