As an adult, writer Wendy McClure was drawn back to the Little House novels by Laura Ingalls, based on Wilder's childhood with her pioneer family, who moved across the Midwest in their covered wagon. She loved them so much that she immersed herself in what she calls "Laura World." She churned her own butter with a crock-and-dash churn she bought on eBay. She actually gnawed on salt pork. And she traveled from one Ingalls family home to another, stopping in Wisconsin, Kansas and South