Exclusive | Behind-the-scenes secrets of Little House on the Prairie reboot

They showed their true pioneer spirit.The crew behind the Netflix reboot of “Little House on the Prairie” recreated every aspect of that 19th-century world from scratch — including a pair of 96,000-pound log cabins.It took over 200 members in the art department to painstakingly create the props, and 32 in the costume department to make the clothing.

“They’re hand-sewing every buttonhole.They’re hand-nailing in the nails on the bottom of every shoe,” said production designer Jonah Markowitz.“Caroline rips a dress in the first episode in the wagon crossing, that might become an outfit that she makes on a doll later that Laura’s holding, by the end of the season that might be patched together as a dish towel.”  Markowitz, who spoke to The Post from the show’s set in Winnipeg while filming Season 2, said this production was unlike most period pieces set in the 1800s, because they filmed on a high-grassed prairie instead of a backlot.“Usually when you do a Western or something of this genre at this scale, you go to a backlot and you sort of change some things or add some buildings … there is no backlot here,” he said.For the reimagined “Little House” — which premiered on Netflix on July 9 — the most challenging part was designing the town of Independence, Kan., and building it “from the ground up,” Markowitz recalled.“We started with a field full of snow that I came to on my first scout here .

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They said, ‘What do you think about putting the town here? And I was like, ‘I don’t know what’s under this snow.'”The original TV series and the reboot are based on the beloved books Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about her childhood in the 1800s, so when they built the two log cabins, one in a field and one on their soundstage, they followed the steps she described in her novels.“She writes about how her father made the cabin and there were no nails, it was all notched logs, the doors had no hinges, it was wooden pegs, and...