Episode 67 Little House on the Prairie chaper 25, "Soliders" Join us this week as we discuss curlews, kildeers, sandpipers, growing beans, Pa getting angry, the real reason the Ingalls left Kansas, how big the calf would have been, and "there is no great loss without some small gain."
Feb 20, 2023•8 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Episode 66 Little House on the Prairie, chapter 24 "Indians Ride Away" Join us this week as we discuss what frogs really say, frogs native to Kansas, Pa disciplining Jack, bay-colored horses, and Laura wanting the baby in the basket.
Feb 12, 2023•7 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Episode 65 Little House on the Prairie chapter 23, "Indian War Cry" Join us this week as we discuss the chapter's tone, trimming dogs' nails, stockades, and the identity of Soldat du Chêne.
Feb 06, 2023•10 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Episode 64 Little House on the Prairie, chapter 22 "The Prairie Fire" Join us this week as we discuss backfires, 13-lined ground squirrel/gopher holes, the definition of "devilment", Fort Gibson (OK), and buffalo movement patterns.
Jan 30, 2023•6 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Episode 63 Little House on the Prairie, chapter 21 "Indian Jamboree Join us this week as we discuss hopscotch, Mary's age in the narrative, division of chores between Laura and Mary, seed potatoes, blouses, headbands, plows, and watermelon seeds.
Jan 23, 2023•8 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Episode 62 Little House on the Prairie, chapter 20 "A Scream in the Night" Join us this week as we discuss "Patty Cake", "Hide the Thumble", "Bean Porridge Hot", strap-ears, panthers in Kansas, and bootjacks.
Jan 16, 2023•10 min•Season 3Ep. 20
Episode 61 Little House on the Prairie, chapter 19 "Mr. Edwards Meets Santa Claus" Join us this week as we discuss "to scrooge", Onion Creek, razorbacks, and cornshuck beds.
Jan 09, 2023•6 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Episode 60 Little House on the Prairie, chapter 18 "The Tall Indian" Join us this week as we discuss northers, scalplocks, the origin of "how", speaking to someone whose language you don't understand, the Osage experience with French, mink, and "The Blue Junaita".
Jan 01, 2023•11 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Episode 59 Little House on the Prairie, chapter 17 "Pa Goes to Town" Join us this week as we talk about picket-pins, the Dakota Wars, shutters, and "There Is a Happy Land".
Dec 25, 2022•7 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Episode 58 Little House on the Prairie chapter 16, "Fire in the Chimney" Join us this week as we discuss buffalo grass, curing hay, geese flying in Vs, "Bye Baby Bunting", and "Green Grow the Laurels".
Dec 18, 2022•8 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Episode 57 Little House on the Prairie, chapter 15 "Fever n' Ague" Join us this week as we learn how to pronounce "ague" and what it means, when blackberries are ripe, Laura crying, Dr. George Tann, watermelons, the phrase "since Hector was a pup", quinine, and Ma's gold pin.
Dec 12, 2022•9 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Episode 56 Little House on the Prairie chapter 14, "Indian Camp" Join us this week as we discuss buckbrush, the definition of "ox-eyed", Osage lodges, and what Osage women wore.
Dec 05, 2022•10 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Episode 55 Little House on the Prairie chapter 13 "Texas Longhorns" Join us this week as we talk about Fort Dodge, Kansas (or Iowa?), chaps, Texas longhorns, "by the Great Horned Spoon", and whippoorwills.
Nov 28, 2022•9 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Episode 54 Little House on the Prairie, chapter 12 "Fresh Water to Drink" Join us this week as we talk about straw ticks, rope beds, goose feather pillows, spades, the (un)strong language of Mr. Scott, the dichotomy of Laura and Mary, windlasses, a rare time when Ma cries, carbon monoxide, and towsacks.
Nov 21, 2022•8 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Episode 53 Little House on the Prairie chapter 11, "Indians in the House" Join us this week as we discuss dog eye colors, screaming in whispers, active Laura vs. passive Mary, skunks, cornbread, and the Osage Nation.
Nov 14, 2022•7 min•Season 3Ep. 11
"Little House on the Prairie" Chapter 10 "A Roof and a Floor" Join us this week as we discuss garter snakes, Laura not wearing a sunbonnet, the shepherdess as home, and what was hanging in the windows before glass windows?
Nov 06, 2022•7 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Episode 51 Little House on the Prairie, chapter 9 "The Fire on the Hearth" Join us today as we discuss larkspur, poisonous snakes in Kansas, bear grease in Pa's hair, stick-and-daub, and the little china shepherdess.
Oct 30, 2022•10 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Little House on the Prairie Chapter 8, "Two Stout Doors" Join us this week as we discuss prairie chicken hash and building the doors.
Oct 24, 2022•6 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Little House on the Prairie Chapter 7 "The Wolf Pack" Join us this week as we talk about horse gestation, mules, grey wolves, wolf pack sizes, the Scott family, pioneer cabin sizes, Great Plains (buffalo) wolves, and the word "scringe".
Oct 17, 2022•10 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Episode 48 Little House on the Prairie Chapter 6 "Moving In" Join us this week as we talk about scalawgs, a puncheon floor, dimensions of the log cabin, "Roll on Silver Moon".
Oct 09, 2022•6 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Episode 47 Little House on the Prairie, chapter 5 "The House on the Prairie" Join us this week as we discuss the Verdigris River, Cuba (New York) and the Seneca tribe, to chink cracks, Mr. Edwards, "I Am a Gypsy King", "The Devil's Hornpipe", "Old Dan Tucker", and nightingales.
Oct 03, 2022•10 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Episode 46 Little House on the Prairie, Chapter 4 "Prairie Day" Join us this week as we discuss dickcissels, how far the Ingalls lived from Independence, prairie chickens, the definition of "to kilt", striped gophers, Laura's treatment of Native Americans in this novel, sadirons, phoebe birds, and Daisy Deane.
Sep 26, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Episode 45 Little House on the Prairie, Chapter 3 "Camp on the High Prairie" Join us this week as we discuss the high prairie, grinding coffee, bake ovens, salt pork, wolves, lynx, nightcaps, and what kind of bulldog Jack really was.
Sep 19, 2022•11 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Episode 44 Little House on the Prairie Chapter 2 "Crossing the Creek" Join us this week as we discuss fords, when fawning season is, why Laura had to wear a blanket crossing the creek, running gear, American bulldogs swimming, and mustangs.
Sep 12, 2022•7 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Episode 43 Chapter 1 "Going West" Join us this week as we discuss the Ingalls family in both Missouri and Kansas, Pa's Wisconsin land in 2022 dollars, dimensions of a prairie schooner, Laura's grandparents and double cousins, molasses, the dimensions of Lake Pepin, when this ice cracks on Lake Pepin, the definition of Indian Territory, crossing the Missouri River, jackrabbits, and wagon wheel tracks you can still see in the American West.
Sep 05, 2022•19 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Episode 42 Farmer Boy Chapter 29 "Farmer Boy" Join us this week as we discuss wheelwrights, apprenticeship in the 1800s, truckle, and Libertarians.
Aug 01, 2022•10 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Episode 41 Farmer Boy Chapter 28 "Mr. Thompson's Pocket Book" In today's episode we discuss hay balers, capstans, money conversions, pocketbooks, shinny, hames, livery stables, and if Mr. Paddock was a real person.
Jul 25, 2022•9 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Episode 40 Farmer Boy Chapter 27 "Wood Hauling" Join us this week as we discuss yearlings, Almanzo's age, feather stitching, cant poles, balky, swearing, and corded wood.
Jul 18, 2022•7 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Episode 39 Farmer Boy Chapter 26 "Christmas" Join us as we discuss the extended Wilder Family, switches, scouring bricks, mince pies, dampers, horehound candy, garnets, paring potatoes, and the word "dast".
Jul 11, 2022•11 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Episode 38 Farmer Boy Chapter 25 "Threshing" Join us this week as we discuss flails, ironwood, fanning mills, eating wheat kernels, and how big a bushel is.
Jul 04, 2022•9 min•Season 2Ep. 25