Publisher's Note Laura Ingalls Wilder has long been admired for being a strong, yet sensitive, woman ahead of her time. She felt that in order to appreciate how far you have come, as a nation and as a people, you must first know where you began. Wilder believed that Americans needed only to be reminded of the things that made them great: not automobiles and airplanes, but self-reliance and character. And so it is to her rediscovered journalistic writings that Words from a Fearless Heart turns - to inform you of Laura's point of view about the things that really matter.