Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura and her family are moving west again, this time to Dakota Territory. Laura really likes their frontier home until the night she and Carrie take a walk and come face to face with a huge prairie wolf!

Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.

The year Almanzo Wilder turned nine (1866) was an important one for the young farm boy in northern New York state.

After a long and somber Sunday, a little pioneer girl celebrates her fifth birthday in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

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

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

A little pioneer girl and her family spend the winter in their log cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

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

"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...