Laura Ingalls Wilder

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.

After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.

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.

Ma, Pa, Laura, Mary, and Carrie settle on the prairie land of Minnesota where runaway cattle, wolves, torrential creeks, a grasshopper plague, and a long blizzard offset the joys of a new house, school friends, church socials, and the comfort of a town only three miles away.

A little girl and her pioneer family spend a summer 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.

Almanzo Wilder celebrates his birthday by breaking in a pair of calves and sledding on his new sled.

Laura Ingalls and her family celebrate several joyous Christmases on the western frontier.

Laura Ingalls shares adventures and good times with her friends while growing up on the western frontier.

These are stories about Laura's father and life on the frontier.