Let the Hurricane Roar
by Rose Wilder Laneliterary work· published 1933
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Let the Hurricane Roar, reissued as Young Pioneers starting from 1976, is a short novel by Rose Wilder Lane that incorporates elements of the childhood of her mother Laura Ingalls Wilder. It was published in The Saturday Evening Post as a serial in 1932 and by Longmans as a book early in 1933, not long after Little House in the Big Woods (1932), the first volume of her mother's Little House series. During the 1970s the novel was adapted as a TV series, The Young Pioneers, and as two TV movies, Young Pioneers and Young Pioneers' Christmas.
Adaptations (2)
Let the Hurricane Roar has been adapted 2 times, across television film and miniseries, from 1976 to 1978. The most recent is The Young Pioneers (1978).
Young Pioneers' Christmas1976 · television film · 100 min · dir. Michael O'Herlihy · IMDb ↗IMDb6.8A young couple and their neighbors celebrate Christmas in 1874 on the Dakota prairie. Despite tragedy and an ongoing battle with the railway company, Christmas is a homespun and overly sentimental affair.
The Young Pioneers1978 · miniseries · 60 min · IMDb ↗IMDb7.7The Young Pioneers is a three-episode ABC western television series starring Linda Purl and Roger Kern in the role of young newlyweds Molly and David Beaton, who settle in the Dakota Territory during the 1870s. The program was based on novels of Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose work inspired NBC's Little House on the Prairie starring Michael Landon. The Young Pioneers aired at 7 p.m. Eastern on Sundays on April 2, 9, and 16, 1978. The recurring cast included Robert Hays as Dan Gray, Robert Donner as Mr. Peters, Mare Winningham as Nettie Peters, Michelle Stacy as Flora Peters, and Jeff Cotler as Charlie Peters. A Martinez portrayed the Indian Circling Hawk. Geno Silva played another Indian, Fool's Crow. The episodes are entitled "Sky in the Window", "A Kite for Charlie", and "The Promise of Spring".
