Laura Ingalls Wilder

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.

Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.

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

After Almanzo helps with the chores on his family's farm in the New York countryside, he joins his parents, brother, and sisters for dinner and a winter evening at home.

"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...

A young pioneer girl and her family prepare to leave the big woods of Wisconsin and travel west in their covered wagon.

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

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

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

A cold snap late in winter allows a pioneer girl and her family to enjoy the rich sugar candy made from maple tree sap.