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The final chapter includes a full-length essay that investigates the puzzle of Wilder’s posthumously published Little House novel, The First Four Years. In this volume of the Pioneer Girl Project, Nancy Tystad Koupal compiles more than a decade’s worth of blog posts, covering a vast range of topics related to Laura Ingalls Wilder: LauraPalooza conferences, behind-the-scenes accounts of publishing the Pioneer Girl Project and Little House books, fascinating vignettes about Wilder’s life and their influence on her writing, and more. Koupal muses on her own life’s work as an editor, which has given her extraordinary perspective into the working relationship between Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter and editor, Rose Wilder Lane. Koupal argues that Lane’s editing, often brilliant, allowed Wilder’s deep understanding of her stories and characters to sing.