Description
Carrie Ingalls was always depicted as the delicate little sister to Laura Ingalls Wilder in Laura’s famous “Little House” books. But as an adult, Carrie was the maverick of the four Ingalls girls. She was a career woman who was the textbook example of a frontier newspaper operator.
Newspapering was one career in the late 1800s and early 1900s that welcomed women on par with men, especially on the frontier. Frontier pressmen and presswomen, including Carrie, went from town to town starting, operating, and closing newspapers as the white population pushed west. Her boss, the colorful Edward L. Senn, put her in charge of various struggling small-town newspapers with the thought that she could pilot them through hard times.
As she captained a newspaper in Keystone, South Dakota, Carrie met David Swanzey, a widowed miner who came in often to place legal ads about his extensive holdings. Carrie married Swanzey two days before her 42nd birthday, at last concluding her lively career in the frontier press.
Paperback – 50 pages
