Laura Ingalls Wilder

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

Fifteen-year-old Laura becomes a school teacher and gets engaged, and starts a new life as the wife of Almanzo Wilder.

Describes the sights and events a frontier family encounters travelling from South Dakota to the Ozarks.

A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.

A young pioneer girl and her family celebrate Christmas in their cabin in the Wisconsin woods.

From the maple syrup party at her grandpa's house in the Big Woods in Wisconsin to parties with her school friends in Plum Creek and her first co-ed party in De Smet, Dakota Territory, Laura enjoys all kinds of gatherings.

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.

Laura and her sisters share some good and bad times when they attend different schools near their various prairie homes.

A little girl and her pioneer family spend a summer in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

"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...