The first season of Netflix‘s new Little House on the Prairie show is a modern adaptation of the Laura Ingalls Wilder book of the same name, following young Laura (Alice Halsey) as she travels with her family far away from the little house in the big woods to start life over in the frontier town of Independence, Kansas. We watch as the Ingalls ford a dangerous river, build a log cabin, and encounter all sorts of trials as they attempt to live their version of the American dream. **Spoilers for Little House on the Prairie Season 1, now streaming on Netflix** Almost as soon as the Ingalls family arrives in Independence, Charles (Luke Bracey) discovers to his horror that the “free land” that was advertised isn’t free at all. The settlers are all squatting illegally on Osage land. The hope is