Laura Ingalls Wilder

Wilder's never-before-published autobiography reveals the true stories of her pioneering life. Pioneer Girl re-introduces readers to the woman who defined the pioneer experience for millions of people around the world.

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.

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

A young pioneer girl and her family celebrate Christmas in their cabin in the Wisconsin woods.

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 reader counts the one house, two trees, three books, and other objects found in accounts of the frontier and pioneer life of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family.

As he grows up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder dreams of having a colt of his own.