Meyer Library Special Collections & Archives is now home to a first edition copy of Cindy: A Romance of the Ozarks, by Rose Wilder Lane. Lane is the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo Wilder.

Published in 1928, this work precedes Lane’s successful novels Let the Hurricane Roar and Free Land as well as her mother’s celebrated Little House series. Prior to writing Cindy, Rose had written biographies of Art Smith, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Ford, and Herbert Hoover, a couple of non-fiction travel books, and several other works of fiction.