It a little strange (and skeezy?) to capitalize to such an extent on someone you knew for a few years in your childhood. again because of the 'adopted' grandchild status (and powerful lawyers).

That's OUR story' to refuse them anything, instead pass their (the Ingall's) family legacy to my (completely unrelated) family. Then, when her surviving family goes, 'no wait. If not wrong, at least a little shady and morally ambigious? To put this in perspective, if I went over to my 70-year-old neighbor, became 'friends' for a few years, grabbed the rights to her late mother's estate, then waited a few decades after her death to capitalize on her experiences as a child under the veil of being an 'adopted' grandchild (despite nothing legal ever happening).it would be wrong. He also used the estate to amass a fortune based off of Laura's series.

MacBride wrote a series from Rose's perspective often leaning on things that Rose supposedly told him during their few years as friends when she was in her 70s and he was just a boy. Laura's family survived - her aunts, uncles and cousins all survived - so while she didn't have any direct descents (other than Rose, who never had surviving children) but there are certainly Ingalls descendants who are there. Plus it always bugged me that Roger MacBride took over the series. I have not read those companion books (nor do I intend to) based on that principle. His descendants still own the rights to Laura's life and estate opposed to Laura's family. Roger Lea MacBride then inherited all of the Little House Royalties ( not Laura's extended family) and proceeded to publish many a book based on the Ingalls family. It feels shorter, rushed and repeats information from the eighth book. We do get some content about the new hardships she faced as a wife and mother but the books don't have the same feel. I don't wish it would've gone unpublished but at the same time, it's just not as good as the previous books. Roger Lea MacBride ('adopted' grandson of Rose, Laura's daughter) found this manuscript after posthumously rummaging through Rose's things and decided to publish this anyway. Laura Ingalls Wilder intended to write a full novel on her early years married to Almanzo Wilder but she passed prior to finishing the book. Bit of a lackluster end to one of my fave series

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