The year Almanzo Wilder turned nine (1866) was an important one for the young farm boy in northern New York state.

Laura helps out on the family farms in the Big Woods and on the prairie.

Nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State at the end of the nineteenth century. He raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.

Laura and her family move to Minnesota.

"Laura Ingalls Wilder has long been admired for being a strong, yet sensitive, woman ahead of her time. She felt that in order to appreciate how far you have come, as a nation and as a people, you must first know where you began. Wilder believed that Americans needed only to be reminded of the things that made them great: not automobiles and airplanes, but self-reliance and character. And so it is to her rediscovered journalistic writings that Words...

By the mid-1930s Laura Ingalls Wilder's journeys had taken her from Wisconsin to South Dakota, from Missouri to California and back again. She had traveled by wagon, by train, and by car; alone, with her husband, and with her daughter. She had watched the times, seasons, and people change over six decades of traveling. But one thing remained the same: Laura always kept a pencil and paper with her to jot down notes about her experiences. For the...

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.

A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.