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.

Story of farm life before farms were mechanized and electrified. "This farmer boy lived in northern New York about 1868. School days, beginning when he was nine years old, work on the farm and some innocent pleasures rounded out his life." Wis. bul.

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.

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

During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.

Laura Ingalls and her pioneer family encounter a variety of animals traveling through and living on the American frontier at the turn of the century.

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

At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.