Editing Roger MacBride (section)

==Writing and television producing career==
MacBride was designated by [[Rose Wilder Lane]] as her heir. He gained control of her literary estate on her death in 1968. In 1971 he published ''[[The First Four Years (novel)|The First Four Years]]''. In 1974 he edited and published Laura Ingalls Wilder's letters to her husband Almanzo as ''West From Home''. He approved the creation of the [[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|television series]] in the 1970s.<ref name = Saxon/> He was the credited author of a fictionalized series on the life of Rose Wilder Lane.<ref name="Roger Lea MacBride"/> He was author of record for three additional ''Little House'' books and launched the ''Rocky Ridge Years'' series of [[Children's literature|children's novels]], describing Lane's [[The Ozarks|Ozark]] childhood.<ref name="Saxon"/><ref name="freeman"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Archive Today |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/08/obituaries/roger-macbride-65-libertarian-and-little-house-heir-is-dead.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190913225829/http://web.archive.org/web/20121105025030/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/08/obituaries/roger-macbride-65-libertarian-and-little-house-heir-is-dead.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2019-09-13 }}</ref> He published two books on [[constitutional law]], ''The American Electoral College'' and ''Treaties versus the Constitution'',<ref name="Hamowy">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Boaz |first= David |author-link= David Boaz|editor-first=Ronald |editor-last=Hamowy |editor-link=Ronald Hamowy |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism |title=MacBride, Roger Lea (1929–1995) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC  |year=2008 |publisher= [[SAGE Publishing|Sage]]; [[Cato Institute]] |location= Thousand Oaks, CA |doi= 10.4135/9781412965811.n186 |isbn= 978-1412965804 |oclc=750831024| lccn = 2008009151 |pages=310–11 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> and authored a Libertarian Party [[manifesto]]: ''A New Dawn for America: The Libertarian Challenge''.<ref name="Saxon"/>

In the 1970s, MacBride co-created the television series ''Little House on the Prairie'' and served as a co-producer for the show.<ref name="Merced"/><ref name="freeman"/>