Frank Carlson Library

A pioneer father tells his two small daughters why he was unable to shoot a deer for their dinner.

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.

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

Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almanzo Wilder arrives to take her to her family for the weekend.

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

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.

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.

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

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