great plains

Illustrated text, letters, and diary excerpts follow the fictional Buckler family during the Great Depression, as they leave Oklahoma, because of drought and duststorms, and move to California to find work and a better life.

The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Caleb forces Jacob to deal with his past.

Unhappy to leave her home and friends, Addie reluctantly accompanies her family to the Dakota Territory and slowly begins to adjust to life on the prairie.

The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Sarah forces Jacob to deal with his past.

This reworking of an unfinished novel from the 1930s relates the story of Mazie, a young girl, whose poverty-stricken family attempts to survive on a South Dakota farm in the 1920s and 1930s.

The Ingalls family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, encounter Native Americans, dig a well, and fight a prairie fire.

Describes, in graphic novel format, the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s when dust storms raged across the heartland of the United States.

Laura Ingalls travels with her family from the big woods of Wisconsin to the prairies of Kansas, where they build a house, meet neighboring Native Americans, and face the challenges of frontier life.

Sequel to: Skylark.

Describes the near extinction of America's buffalo and their native grasslands when settlers arrived in the West and drove the Indians to reservations. Explains how Theodore Roosevelt began a program of conservation that led to the revival of the buffalo and the grasslands.