Murder in the Big Woods
Generations of Americans grew up with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s version of frontier life — and it’s a beautiful one. Warm, honest, and full of the kind of resilience that made the Little House series an enduring piece of American literature. But Laura was also a careful storyteller. And careful storytellers choose what to leave out.
What she left out was this: a gunshot, a dead neighbor, a criminal trial, and a family member who went to prison. It wasn’t a rumor. It wasn’t a legend. It was real — buried in court records and old newspaper columns that Laura hoped most people would never find.
Carl Reinemann found them. This episode of One Shot at History follows the paper trail behind one of America’s most beloved literary families — and the secret they carried from the frontier all the way to the printed page.
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