Laura Ingalls Wilder
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The Ingalls family packs up their covered wagon and travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home in Kansas Territory, where wide open land stretches as far as the eye can see. On the prairie, they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
3) Farmer boy
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Nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State at the end of the nineteenth century. He raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.
15) Going west
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A young pioneer girl and her family prepare to leave the big woods of Wisconsin and travel west in their covered wagon.
16) School days
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Laura and her sisters share some good and bad times when they attend different schools near their various prairie homes.
17) County Fair
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Young Almanzo Wilder and his family attend a county fair in upstate New York.
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"Follows the Ingalls family's journey through Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, back to Minnesota, and on to Dakota Territory, [examining] sixteen years of travels, unforgettable experiences, and the everyday people who became immortal through Wilder's fiction. Using additional manuscripts, letters, photographs, newspapers, and other sources, ... Wilder biographer Pamela Smith Hill adds ... context and leads readers through Wilder's growth...
19) Going to town
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A little pioneer girl and her family, living in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, make their first trip into town to visit the general store.
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