Laura hadn’t either, right? Neither of them had ever had one.
She had seen an adaptation of one of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books that had been made into a film. The things she observed in “The Long Winter” left her with a negative impression in several respects. To paraphrase what she said to a friend, she told her friend, “The children will read my novels and watch this movie, and they won’t know which is correct. ” I write my books as if I were there.
Even if they were not “exactly” the same as she had experienced them, the events might have been more true to life than how they were portrayed in the movies. It’s possible that Laura never watched the Little House on the Prairie movie adaptation directed by Michael Landon. She did not have any means of watching television at all.