Pa Ingalls Moved Them Ten Times and Never Kept a Farm. Little House Never Told You Why | 1863–1902

Описание: Little House on the Prairie never told you that Charles Ingalls moved his family ten times and never kept a single farm. Tonight, the whole record.

Pa Ingalls is the most beloved father in American children's literature. He also filed on six pieces of federal land and walked away from three, squatted illegally on the Osage Diminished Reserve, signed a sworn statement that he was "wholy without means" to receive two half barrels of flour, and drove his four daughters out of a rented house in Iowa at night because he could not pay the rent.

His daughter wrote that night down in her own hand. Then she left it out of the books.

A calm, slow, deeply researched bedtime history for sleep. No music stings, no jump scares. One gentle voice and ninety seven minutes of the working life of Laura Ingalls Wilder's father, from the farm he bought from his own father in 1857 to the obituary that quietly removed three states from his life.

Dim the lights. If you drift off before the end, that is exactly the point. Good night.

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WHAT THE RECORDS ACTUALLY SHOW
Ten household moves across five states and Dakota Territory in twenty four years
Six federal land filings, three relinquished, every completed one sold
$900 of Missouri farmland handed back in a Kansas justice office, 1870
A cabin and hand dug well appraised at $44 after a survey line landed 198 feet the wrong way
$430.18 paid to the United States for the Plum Creek quarter section, sold three days later for $400
A destitution oath sworn on 30 November 1875, worth $5.25 in flour
Homestead entry 2708, final proof 7 May 1886, two thousand fruit trees sworn to
Mortgaged for $760 in 1891, sold for $1,200 in 1892, under $440 clear
Less than $400 to show for more than thirty years of owning property

CHAPTERS
00:00:00 The Wagon in the Dark, Burr Oak 1877
00:02:19 Ten Moves in Twenty Four Years
00:06:13 Charles Ingalls Buys His Father's Land, 1857
00:10:51 Nine Hundred Dollars in Missouri, 1868
00:15:57 The Osage Diminished Reserve
00:17:51 How a Poor Man Got Land: Preemption, Homestead, Tree Claim
00:27:53 Doctor George Tann, the Neighbor a Mile North
00:33:56 One Hundred and Ninety Eight Feet
00:41:55 Plum Creek and Forty Acres of Wheat
00:50:48 Wholy Without Means, November 1875
00:56:34 Burr Oak, and the Wagon Again
01:03:40 Dakota Territory and a Letter in His Own Hand
01:16:29 Two Thousand Fruit Trees
01:19:05 The One He Kept
01:27:54 A Pioneer Gone, June 1902
01:31:22 What the Obituary Could Not Hold

SOURCES
Cleaveland and Linsenmayer, "Charles Ingalls and the U.S. Public Land Laws"
http://pioneergirl.com/cpi_land_laws.pdf

Constance Potter, "Little Town in the National Archives," Prologue 35:4
https://www.archives.gov/publications...

Pamela Smith Hill, editor of Pioneer Girl, on the night departure from Burr Oak
https://www.pamelasmithhill.com/blog/...

The Charles Ingalls letter of 2 February 1880, Brookings County Press
https://pioneergirlproject.org/2014/0...

Doctor George A. Tann
https://pioneergirlproject.org/2019/0...

Linsenmayer, "Kansas Settlers on the Osage Diminished Reserve," 2001
https://www.kansashistory.gov/publica...

The De Smet News obituary of Charles P. Ingalls, 12 June 1902
https://laurasprairiehouse.com/resear...

Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires, on the locust years and the destitution oath
https://lithub.com/laura-ingalls-wild...

Also: Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, ed. Pamela Smith Hill, and Frances W. Kaye in Great Plains Quarterly on the Osage.

WHERE THE RECORD IS THIN
Better you hear it from me than find it in the comments. The date the family left Burr Oak is contested, summer 1877 in one source and early 1878 in another. Laura's reported journey to her father's deathbed in 1902 is widely repeated and I could not find a primary document under it, so the video says so rather than staging the scene. If you have a source I have missed, put it below.

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