Back Cover,In February 1870, Caroline Ingalls and family leave the familiar comforts of Wisconsin's Big Woods for a new life in Kansas's Indian Territory. Packing what they can in their wagon, Caroline; her husband, Charles; and their daughters, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in an unpredictable land full of promise and peril.The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort. The burden of work must be shouldered alone, sickness tended without the aide of doctors, and babies birthed without accustomed hands. In adapting to this strange new place, Caroline must draw on untapped wells of strength she does not know she possess.For over eighty years, generations have been enchanted by the adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder in the Little House books. Now that familiar story is retold in the captivating tale, authorized by the Little House Heritage Trust, that vividly imagines our past.