Almanzo Wilder has many homey adventures as a young boy growing up on a farm in New York State in the 1860s, and comes to the momentous decision that farming is the life he wants for his future.
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.
The life of Almanzo Wilder in New York State in the 1860's, before he went west with his family to homestead land and to meet his future wife, Laura Ingalls Wilder.