Washoe County Library System

A rhyming story of a family's move by wagon train between Missouri and Oregon in the 1850's and their daughter's role in outwitting cattle thieves.

Laura Ingalls shares adventures and good times with her friends while growing up on the western frontier.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text follow a family as they make the difficult journey by wagon to a new home across the Rocky Mountains.

Two brothers spend a year attending a one-room schoolhouse on the frontier.

Young Lydia struggles to say goodbye to her grandmother as her parents finish packing their wagon for the long journey to Oregon in the nineteenth century.

Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas.

On the first Christmas after Eleanor's family moves to a house on the prairie, everyone becomes worried when Papa goes out to cut down a Christmas tree and does not come back.

One sunny Saturday in 1889, Lizzie helps her grandmother scrub, boil, rinse, and hang loads of laundry, although she would rather be having a tea party with her best friend, Lucy, and their dolls, Amelia Cordelia and Belinda Lavinia.

A young pioneer girl and her family prepare to leave the big woods of Wisconsin and travel west in their covered wagon.