Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder? by Patricia Brennan Demuth

Author:Patricia Brennan Demuth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-12-26T05:00:00+00:00

FALSE FRONTS

MOST STORES IN FRONTIER TOWNS HAD FALSE FRONTS TO ATTRACT CUSTOMERS. THEY WERE “TRYING TO MAKE BELIEVE THAT THE BUILDINGS WERE TWO STORIES HIGH,” LAURA WROTE IN LITTLE TOWN ON THE PRAIRIE. THE BUILDING BEHIND A FALSE FRONT WAS JUST ONE STORY. USUALLY IT WAS PLAIN, MADE OF SOD OR LOGS. BUT THE FALSE FRONTS WERE MADE OF LUMBER WITH PHONY WINDOWS. THEY GAVE BOOMTOWNS A LOOK OF BEING MORE SETTLED AND PROSPEROUS.

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Yet Laura was still a country girl at heart. She was glad when the family moved to the homestead. Pa first put up a shanty there, which he would add to later. It would be the fourth house he had made with his own hands.

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