Are You Going Bald? Try This!

Years ago when I was searching for material on Laura Ingalls Wilder, I found a reference in a very old copy of the De Smet, South Dakota, newspaper about a local resident who had a surefire remedy for baldness. I am going bald. I admit I was curious. There it was: the cure; but no other information was forthcoming.

Undoubtedly this woman, for the alchemist was a woman, had missed her opportunity for a fortune. While I would in no way encourage useless speculation, yet I do encourage useful speculation: and speculating on the market for a volume of natural home remedies for baldness seems like worthwhile speculation to me.

Let me go further. I boldly assert that no matter how many good and bad books there are on curing male pattern baldness, there is always room for twenty or thirty more, particularly if they take a natural or holistic approach to the problem. I certainly know there is medicine on the market that helps to grow a little hair, but what is a little hair when a lot is what we want: we want a return to the luxurious growth of our youth! Do we not?

But where to find this valuable material? Well, it seems obvious to me that if one did a search of books and magazines from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century one would find heaps of interesting and worthwhile information–and more important–testimonials to the marvelous success these concoctions produced.

Now that would be a fun project to get involved in.

Happy prospecting!