mr edwards or mr garvey?
who did you prefer?
shareWell if I was getting in a tussle with some rowdies, I'd prefer that Mr. Garvey had my back. If I was shopping for Lemon Verbena perfume, then I'd have to go with Edwards.
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Edwards, hands down. Garvey is an uptight. I can imagine drinking 'shine around a camp fire with Edwards. Garvey would frown on it and claim he ain't judging anyone but that we were scums.
Plus, Edwards had his own theme music. It's always a riot in one of the downer episodes when they play Old Man Tucker real somber-like. It just plainly rocks.
Both were made out to be all around nice guys, diamonds in the rough as they say.
FYI:
Neither actually existed in real life. Both were fictional characters specifically created for the TV series. Edwards was actually modelled after the real Charles Ingalls, who did not resemble or act like Michael Landon's character at all.
I heard a different version once before. Edwards did appear in the second book in the series, little house on the prairie. He also appeared briefly in one of the later books, once they were living in Dakota territory. But census records for Independence Kansas at the time, didn’t show anyone by the name of Edwards living in that place at that time. Not that this necessarily means anything. They might have just overlooked him.
One possibility that I heard was that the real Laura simply made him up. Another was that he was a conglomeration of different men (Similar to “the 3 Nellie’s”) that were kind towards the Ingalls along their various travels . It’s kind of surprising that the real Laura was alive up until 1957, and no one thought to ask her to sort this out 😄
But Garvey, yeah, he was totally made up.
Well since the people she'd known or their kids were probably still alive...
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