Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas, and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and her family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie.
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When Laura was still a baby, Pa and Ma decided to move to a farm near Keytesville, Missouri, and the family lived there about a year. Then they moved to land on the prairie south of Independence, Kansas. After two years in their little house on the prairie, the Ingallses went back to the Big Woods to live in the same house they had left three years earlier...
So far as the little girl could see, there was only the one little housewhere she lived with her Father and Mother, her sister Mary and babysister Carrie. A wagon track ran before the house, turning and twistingout of sight in the woods where the wild animals lived, but the littlegirl did not know where it went, nor what might be at the end of it.
For winter was coming. The days were shorter, and frost crawled up thewindow panes at night. Soon the snow would come. Then the log housewould be almost buried in snowdrifts, and the lake and the streams wouldfreeze. In the bitter cold weather Pa could not be sure of finding anywild game to shoot for meat.
The garden behind the little house had been growing all summer. It wasso near the house that the deer did not jump the fence and eat thevegetables in the daytime, and at night Jack kept them away. Sometimesin the morning there were little hoof-prints among the carrots and thecabbages. But Jack's tracks were there, too, and the deer had jumpedright out again.
The little pieces of meat, lean and fat, that had been cut off the largepieces, Ma chopped and chopped until it was all chopped fine. Sheseasoned it with salt and pepper and with dried sage leaves from thegarden. Then with her hands she tossed and turned it until it was wellmixed, and she molded it into balls. She put the balls in a pan out inthe shed, where they would freeze and be good to eat all winter. Thatwas the sausage.
All alone in the wild Big Woods, and the snow, and the cold, the littlelog house was warm and snug and cosy. Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura andBaby Carrie were comfortable and happy there, especially at night.
The little log house was almost buried in snow. Great drifts were bankedagainst the walls and windows, and in the morning when Pa opened thedoor, there was a wall of snow as high as Laura's head. Pa took theshovel and shoveled it away, and then he shoveled a path to the barn,where the horses and the cows were snug and warm in their stalls.
When they all came in, the little house was full and running over. BlackSusan ran out and hid in the barn, but Jack leaped in circles throughthe snow, barking as though he would never stop. Now there were cousinsto play with!
"James sat in front on the sled, then George, and then Grandpa, becausehe was the littlest. The sled started, at first slowly, then faster andfaster. It was running, flying, down the long steep hill, but the boysdared not shout. They must slide silently past the house, without wakingtheir father.
"It was harder for little girls. Because they had to behave like littleladies all the time, not only on Sundays. Little girls could never slidedownhill, like boys. Little girls had to sit in the house and stitch onsamplers."
In the Big Woods the snow was beginning to thaw. Bits of it dropped fromthe branches of the trees and made little holes in the softeningsnowbanks below. At noon all the big icicles along the eaves of thelittle house quivered and sparkled in the sunshine, and drops of waterhung trembling at their tips.
It was a warm night. The fire had gone to coals on the hearth, and Padid not build it up. All around the little house, in the Big Woods,there were little sounds of falling snow, and from the eaves there wasthe drip, drip of the melting icicles.
Laura loved Grandma's house. It was much larger than their house athome. There was one great big room, and then there was a little roomthat belonged to Uncle George, and there was another room for the aunts,Aunt Docia and Aunt Ruby. And then there was the kitchen, with a bigcookstove.
Mary had a cracked saucer to play with, and Laura had a beautiful cupwith only one big piece broken out of it. Charlotte and Nettie, and thetwo little wooden men Pa had made, lived in the playhouse with them.Every day they made fresh leaf hats for Charlotte and Nettie, and theymade little leaf cups and saucers to set on their table. The table was anice, smooth rock.
Then Pa got for himself a pair of galluses and some tobacco to smoke inhis pipe. And Ma got a pound of tea, and a little paper package of storesugar to have in the house when company came. It was a pale brown sugar,not dark brown like the maple sugar Ma used for every day.
Along the rail fence the sumac held up its dark red cones of berriesabove bright flame-colored leaves. Acorns were falling from the oaks,and Laura and Mary made little acorn cups and saucers for theplayhouses. Walnuts and hickory nuts were dropping to the ground in theBig Woods, and squirrels were scampering busily everywhere, gatheringtheir winter's store of nuts and hiding them away in hollow trees.
Then the rains stopped. The weather grew colder. In the early morningseverything sparkled with frost. The days were growing short and a littlefire burned all day in the cookstove to keep the house warm. Winter wasnot far away.
One night when he came in from doing the chores Pa said that aftersupper he would go to his deer-lick and watch for a deer. There had beenno fresh meat in the little house since spring, but now the fawns weregrown up, and Pa would go hunting again.
All day Pa was busy, banking the little house and the barn with deadleaves and straw, held down by stones, to keep out the cold. The weathergrew colder all day, and that night there was once more a fire on thehearth and the windows were shut tight and chinked for the winter.
Caroline:Little house in brookfeild.Little town at the crossroads.Little clearing in the woodsOn top of Concord hillAcross the rolling riverLittle city by the lakeA little house of their own.
The book also describes other farm work duties and events, such as the birth of a calf; the availability of milk, butter and cheese; gardening; field work; hunting; gathering; and more. Everyday housework is also described in detail. When Pa went into the woods to hunt, he usually came home with a deer and then smoked the meat for the coming winter. One day he noticed a bee tree and returned from hunting early to get the wash tub and milk pail to collect the honey. When Pa returned home on winter evenings, Laura and Mary always begged him to play his fiddle, but he was too tired from farm work to play during the summertime.[27] Later in the series, the family moved away from Wisconsin to a homestead in Kansas, as territory in the West was being given to settlers. Later they moved on to Minnesota. This reflects the time period in the 1800s during which farmers and many others were migrating westward into the American frontier.
The book tells about the months the Ingalls family spent on the prairie of Kansas, around the town of Independence, Kansas. At the beginning of this story, Pa Ingalls decides to sell the house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and move the family, via covered wagon, to the Indian Territory near Independence, Kansas, as there were widely circulating stories that the land (under Osage ownership) would be opened to settlement by homesteaders imminently. So Laura, along with Pa and Ma, Mary, and baby Carrie, move to Kansas. Along the way, Pa trades his two horses for two Western mustangs, which Laura and Mary name Pet and Patty.[29]
Pa trades his horses Pet and Patty to the property owner (a man named Hanson) for the land and crops, but later he gets two new horses, Sam and David, called the Christmas horses". Pa soon builds a new, above-ground, wooden house for the family, borrowing against the wheat crop he's planted. During this story, Laura and Mary go to school in town for the first time, and they meet their teacher, Miss Eva Beadle. They also meet Nellie Oleson, who makes fun of Laura and Mary for being "country girls". Laura plays with her bulldog Jack when she is home, and she and Mary are invited to a party at the Olesons' home. Laura and Mary invite all the girls (including Nellie) to a party at their house to reciprocate. A church is founded in town, led by Reverend Alden, and the family attends a Christmas service where the children see their first Christmas tree. The family soon goes through hard times when a plague of Rocky Mountain locusts decimates their crops. Pa must leave to work the harvest farther east. The book ends with Pa returning safely to the house after being unaccounted for during a severe four-day blizzard.[31]
These Happy Golden Years, published in 1943 and eighth in the series, originally ended with a note alone on the last page: "The end of the Little house books."[39] It takes place between 1882 and 1885. As the story begins, Pa is taking Laura 12 miles (19 km) from home to her first teaching assignment at the Brewster settlement. Laura, only 15 and a schoolgirl herself, is apprehensive, as this is both the first time she has left home and the first school at which she has taught. She is determined to complete her assignment and earn $40 to help her sister Mary, who is attending Vinton College for the Blind in Iowa.[40]
The First Four Years derives its title from a promise Laura made to Almanzo when they became engaged. Laura did not want to be a farm wife, but she consented to try farming for three years. Their daughter Rose is born, then a son who dies at a few weeks old. Wheat crops fail, and Almanzo becomes partially paralyzed as a result of diphtheria. At the end of that time, Laura and Almanzo mutually agree to continue for one more year, a "year of grace", in Laura's words. That summer a fire destroys their house. The book ends at the close of that fourth year, on a rather optimistic note. Laura compares a farmer's hope for success year to year to her father's lifelong hope for a better life farther west. In reality, the continually hot, dry Dakota summers, and overwhelming debt eventually drove them from their land, but they later founded a very successful fruit and dairy farm in Missouri, where they lived comfortably until their respective deaths.[41] 2ff7e9595c
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