# How was the Ingalls family affected by the US Civil War?

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**Created:** [June 4, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-the-ingalls-family-affected-by-the-us-civil-war/623998 "2012-06-04T03:29:01Z")\
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> [@skdo23](#):
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> As [another thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=333571&highlight=ingalls) points out, among other things, one episode implied that Colonel Sanders (who wasn’t even born until 1890) traveled to Walnut Grove to buy Nellie’s Restaurant and turn it into a franchise.

That’s a great thread! I cracked up on seeing this post:

> [@Little Irritating Things About Little House on the Prairie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-irritating-things-about-little-house-on-the-prairie/320289/48):
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> Always wondered if Charles had some type of bellows set up to get that blow-dried hair.
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> And if anyone has seen a photo of the real Charles Ingalls, he didn’t just have a run of the mill beard. The man had basically a goatee which he let fall to near his chest, and spread out sorta like a trangle.
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> Sir Rhosis

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> [@Hello\_Again](#):
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> Lots of people move their families around a lot. But I think in the cold light of adulthood you’ll find that Pa moved the family for idiotic, selfish reasons every time. We had a thread called something like “Wasn’t Pa Kind of a Fuck-up?” a few years ago but I haven’t been able to locate it.

There’s something about the series that prevents me from reading it in the cold light of adulthood, though–maybe having had a wonderful devoted dad who in some ways reminded me of Pa but who didn’t mess up.  
OTOH my cousin loved the show, I think because Pa/Michael Landon was so different from her cold, absent dad.

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