How long does it take to read These Happy Golden Years?
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder takes about 5 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 8 of Little House on the Prairie
Previous: Little Town on the Prairie Next: The First Four Years
About 5 hours 34 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1943. 304 pages, about 83,600 words. Written for children.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 54 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Ingalls family homesteads on their claim in DeSmet, South Dakota. Fifteen-year-old Laura begins to take schoolteaching jobs to raise money for Mary's college. Laura is surprised when Almanzo Wilder begins to seek her company.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Pioneer children, Frontier and pioneer life, Autobiography, Juvenile nonfiction, Families
