Wilder, Laura Ingalls

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.

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

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.

Story of farm life before farms were mechanized and electrified.

Laura's family's first home in Minnesota is made of sod, but Pa builds a clean new house made of sawed lumber beside Plum Creek.

Wolves and panthers and bears roam the deep Wisconsin woods in the late 1870's. In those same woods, laura lives with Pa and Ma, and her sisters, Mary and Baby Carrie, in a snug little house built of logs.

The long winter is over. With spring come socials, parties, and "Literaries.".