Editing Roger MacBride (section)

==Personal life and death==
MacBride married Susan Ford. They then adopted a baby whom they named Abigail MacBride.<ref name="Roger Lea MacBride">{{Cite web|title=Roger Lea MacBride|url=http://www.liwfrontiergirl.com/roger.html|access-date=October 22, 2020|website=www.liwfrontiergirl.com}}</ref>

MacBride died of heart failure at his home in [[Miami Beach, Florida]], on March 5, 1995, at the age of 65.<ref name="Saxon"/> He willed his estate, including the rights to the ''Little House'' franchise, to his daughter.<ref name = Margolis>Margolis, Rick (June 1, 2001) [http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA83667.html "Settlement on 'Little House' Books"], ''[[School Library Journal]]''. Retrieved July 26, 2012. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229033616/http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA83667.html |date=February 29, 2012}}</ref> In 1999, this was challenged by the public library system of [[Wright County, Missouri]], containing the Laura Ingalls Wilder Library in Wilder's hometown of [[Mansfield, Missouri|Mansfield]]; they contended that her will gave her daughter ownership of the literary estate for her lifetime only, and that all rights should have reverted to the library after Rose Wilder Lane's death in 1968.<ref>Langton, James (November 29, 1999)  [https://web.archive.org/web/20130516210631/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4525382.html "Library claims rights to `Little House' books"], ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''. Retrieved July 26, 2012.</ref> The estate was estimated to be worth around $100 million at the time.<ref name = Margolis/> In 2001, a settlement was reached in which the Wright County library system was paid $875,000, but control of the estate remained with the MacBride family.<ref name = Margolis/>

In an obituary for MacBride, David Boaz wrote: "In some ways he was the last living link to the best of the [[Old Right (United States)|Old Right]], the rugged-[[Individualism|individualist]], anti-[[New Deal]], anti-[[Interventionism (politics)|interventionist]] spirit of Rep. [[Howard Buffett]], [[Albert Jay Nock]], [[H. L. Mencken]], [[Isabel Paterson]], and [[Rose Wilder Lane|Lane]]."<ref name="Boaz"/>