A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.

When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect spot for Pa to build them a new home. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. But just when they begin to feel settled, they are caught in the middle of a dangerous...

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.

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who'd headed east to see the ocean but left his heart--and his home--in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell for a gambling man in the midst of a frontier gold boom. These pioneering...

Story of a few months in the life of a 14-year-old boy, left alone to take care of his father's family in the Texas hill country, and of his dog.

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.

The story of the Mormon pioneers who settled in the San Juan Region in Utah.

Eighteen-year-old Bendigo Shafter arrives with a group of pioneers in a small Western settlement in Wyoming to begin a new life filled with struggle, adventure, and excitement.

Contains the fictional journal of Sarah Prine, in which she records the events of her life in the Arizona Territories from 1881 to 1901, as a child, a fiery young woman, and a caring mother.