Tag: Rose Wilder Lane

Champion of Liberty: Isabel Paterson

In November of 1912, aviator Harry Bingham Brown set out to break the American record for altitude in an airplane. Hearing that Brown wanted a woman to fly with him, 26-year-old Isabel Paterson volunteered. Off the pair went, climbing higher and higher into the skies above New York’s Staten Island and then over the ocean,…


Prairie Rose: A Bold Defender of American Liberty

Today, Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) is best remembered, if she is remembered at all, as the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the beloved “Little House” books, children’s stories that Rose helped shape and edit before they appeared in public. Rose Wilder Lane, circa 1905–1910. National Archives. (Public Domain) Yet Rose was a woman…