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The Arkansas Traveler:  Music from Little House on the Prairie was released in November 2006, and is a CD of the eighteen songs woven into the classic children’s book by Laura Ingalls Wilder.  Many of these songs are among the greatest in 19th-century American music.  This recording is the focus of a one-hour Christmas special broadcast annually by National Public Radio. 

To read the book and hear the music adds fresh, emotional depth to a familiar story.  As Wilder herself wrote, "if you want the spirit of these times, you should [hear] these old songs."