Laura Ingalls Wilder (of Little House on the Prairie fame) moved SEVEN times when she was a little girl in the 1870s (from Wisconsin to Missouri to Kansas to Wisconsin to Minnesota to South Dakota). She failed to mention three of the moves in her famous books because they didn't always work out well, and life was pretty tough (extreme poverty, death of her little brother, “Pa” worked as a hotel clerk, etc.) I learned about this in a book about Laura called “Prairie Fires.” It told the real story of the Ingalls family – and it also mentioned that Michael Landon (who played “Pa” in the TV series) got shitfaced drunk every day during filming (which was obviously the best part of the book). TV Pa also had the peculiar habit of taking his shirt off and wrapping bandages tightly around his love handles every time he got injured – which always made me question the authenticity of the TV show.Read More