West Routt Library District

Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

Pa Ingalls decides to sell the old house, and the family sets out for Indian Country! They travel from Wisconson to Kansas and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and the family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie.

Celebrate the holidays with two classic specials, restored to original broadcast length and remastered for superior picture and sound. In "Christmas at Plum Creek," the members of the Ingalls family share a heartwarming first Christmas in their new home, and Laura makes a personal sacrifice that captures the meaning of the holidays. In "A Christmas They Never Forgot," the family waits out a snowstorm by remembering favorite Christmases from the past....

"Laura's teaching position forces her to live away from home for the first time. Only one thing gets her through the lonely weeks - every weekend, Almanzo Wilder arrives at the school to take Laura home for a visit"--P. [4] of cover..

Using diaries, letters, journals, and reminiscences, Werner tells the stories of 120 young people who braved the frontier as pioneers.

Presents a look at daily life in pioneer America during the 1850s by following a family that emigrates from Sweden to Minnesota.

Discusses the lives of two children whose family settled on the frontier in what is now South Dakota, describing their home, clothes, food, and daily activities.

Abandoned in the wilderness after their grandfather's death, two spunky orphans set out to claim their inheritance, a plot of land in Oregon. They cross paths with Zachariah Coop, an irresistible flim-flam man. This unlikely threesome struggles to survive an incredible journey.

Pioneer children made almost everything they used, wore or played with, now you can make the same crafts, such as, a rag doll, crazy quilts, moccasins, candlemaking, and toys.