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Sep 21, 2026

Josh SlocumHOST
1:01
Little House on the Prairie fans, don't miss this.
Josh SlocumHOST
1:03
I toured Almanzo Wilder's boyhood home, and I'm going to take you there.
Josh SlocumHOST
1:07
And that's all tonight on the show that looks at politics, culture, and relationships through a psychological lens.
Josh SlocumHOST
1:13
I'm Josh Slocum.

58 MINS LATER

Josh SlocumHOST
59:34
They got that way because they weren't raised properly by people with decent values, American values, Christian values.
Josh SlocumHOST
59:43
They were raised by parents who had reverence for integrity and character.
Josh SlocumHOST
59:47
We're going to take a tour of Almanzo Wilder's boyhood home.
Josh SlocumHOST
59:51
You know it from the book Farmer Boy in Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic series Little House.
Shannon QuintonGUEST
9:16
Um, so yeah, it goes back.
Shannon QuintonGUEST
9:18
So my, my shirt, cause obviously the viewers can't see me, but it says team family and there's a big picture of Almanzo on my shirt.
Shannon QuintonGUEST
9:24
And my mom had one that said team, uh, team Charles.
Shannon QuintonGUEST
9:28
And when we would watch it together, um, I was more of an Almanzo fan and she resonated more with paw.
Shannon QuintonGUEST
9:35
And I think I just loved the Laura and Almanzo relationship.
Shannon QuintonGUEST
9:38
And
Steve BarnesHOST
9:38
yeah.
DirkHOST
53:11
One room schoolhouse, walking to school, strict rules, slates and lessons, and no Wi-Fi? I'm out.
DirkHOST
53:20
Like Al Manzo in Farmer Boy, I'm looking for any opportunity to not have to go to school.
JenHOST
53:26
Good stuff, Dirk.
DirkHOST
53:27
And before we get out, we have to take a quick check on did Michael Landon take off his shirt?
Disaffected

Disaffected

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Sep 17 · 2 Mentions

Josh SlocumHOST
27:24
And the children were disciplined and punished sometimes quite harshly with belts.
Josh SlocumHOST
27:29
And in Almanzo Wilder's case, a bullwhip.
Josh SlocumHOST
27:33
That goes farther than I would go in disciplining children.
Josh SlocumHOST
27:36
I think that veers into abuse.
Josh SlocumHOST
27:53
And last week, I had a chance to do something that I didn't even know I could do.
Josh SlocumHOST
27:58
I didn't even know it existed.
Josh SlocumHOST
27:59
My good friend Holly, you know her from her writing on Substack, figured out that Almanzo Wilder's boyhood home is not only still extant, but has been restored and is open to visit from the public.
Josh SlocumHOST
28:11
Yes, if you've read Farmer Boy, it's that house.
Sandra HumeHOST
0:16
Welcome to Land of Laura, the irreverent yet scholarly podcast about all things Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Sandra HumeHOST
0:27
Mansfield, Missouri, where Laura Ingalls Wilder and her husband, Almanzo, lived from 1894 through the rest of their lives, became a museum destination almost immediately after Laura's death in 1957.
Sandra HumeHOST
0:40
Today's Land of Laura brings us Michelle Underwood, author of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Rocky Ridge Farm, who spends her days as a docent at the museum.
Sandra HumeHOST
0:49
From Mansfield, Missouri, we have Michelle Underwood in the Land of Laura studio.
Michelle UnderwoodGUEST
3:54
It's very small.
Michelle UnderwoodGUEST
3:55
Basically, if you wanted to have a different life or do something more, you moved away.
Michelle UnderwoodGUEST
4:01
And so I moved away for many years, living in Texas with my husband and our three kids, raised those kids.
Michelle UnderwoodGUEST
4:09
And so my mother was aging and she's still around, thank goodness.
Danelle DadiganHOST
2:15
And joining us will be award-winning producer and director and documentarian Dean Butler.
Danelle DadiganHOST
2:20
He played Almanzo Wilder on Little House on the Prairie, and he's the author of Prairie Man: My Little House Life and Beyond.
Danelle DadiganHOST
2:29
And joining us will be Carolyn Hennesy.
Danelle DadiganHOST
2:31
She's the Emmy Award-winning actress who has created characters that fans love to hate on both the big and small screen.

39 MINS LATER

Danelle DadiganHOST
41:15
Oh my goodness.
Danelle DadiganHOST
41:16
Well, it's time to take a break, and when we return, our guest will be the award-winning author of this fabulous book that we're chatting about today, A Letter Is Better: The Art of Thank You by Erika Gerard DiBona.
Danelle DadiganHOST
41:28
And joining us will be the award-winning producer, director, and documentarian Dean Butler, who played Almanzo Wilder on Little House on the Prairie.
Danelle DadiganHOST
41:37
He's also an author, Prairie Man: My Little House, Life, and Beyond.
Danelle DadiganHOST
2:15
And joining us will be award-winning producer and director and documentarian Dean Butler.
Danelle DadiganHOST
2:20
He played Almanzo Wilder on Little House on the Prairie, and he's the author of Prairie Man: My Little House Life and Beyond.
Danelle DadiganHOST
2:29
And joining us will be Carolyn Hennesy.
Danelle DadiganHOST
2:31
She's the Emmy Award-winning actress who has created characters that fans love to hate on both the big and small screen.

40 MINS LATER

Danelle DadiganHOST
42:15
Oh my goodness.
Danelle DadiganHOST
42:16
Well, it's time to take a break, and when we return, our guest will be the award-winning author of this fabulous book that we're chatting about today, A Letter Is Better: The Art of Thank You by Erica Gerard DeBona.
Danelle DadiganHOST
42:28
And joining us will be the award-winning producer, director, and documentarian Dean Butler, who played Almanzo Wilder on Little House on the Prairie.
Danelle DadiganHOST
42:36
He's also an author, Prairie Man: My Little House, Life and Beyond.
JenHOST
33:13
It's called Little House on the Prairie 50th Anniversary Podcast.
JenHOST
33:16
And Alison Arngrim, who plays Nellie Olsen, and Dean Butler, who plays Almanzo Wilder, Almanzo, excuse me.
JenHOST
33:26
They run the podcast.
JenHOST
33:28
And Pamela Bob is just a precious lady that keeps them both in check.
Julia WashingtonGUEST
29:01
You know, Mary never gets married, but they're like, we have to give her a husband because it's TV, it's a soap opera.
Julia WashingtonGUEST
29:05
For anyone who isn't a Laura, L-I-W fan, who does Laura marry? Almanzo Wilder.
Julia WashingtonGUEST
29:11
She calls him manly, affectionately calls him manly.
Julia WashingtonGUEST
29:14
Farmer Boy is the book about him in case anybody wants to read about Almanzo's life.
Kate StapletonHOST
47:04
Anyone who's read Little House on the Prairie, those schools were terrifying.
Kate StapletonHOST
47:08
American one room school houses, like the story about Almanzo's father and the bullwhip.
Kate StapletonHOST
47:13
Like, I mean, they, they would have, they had these, at
Casey StapletonHOST
47:16
the end of the year, they beat up the teacher.

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