A stranger rides into a small Wyoming town in 1889 and creates a lasting impact on its inhabitants, especially on young Bob Starrett and his family.

The Ingalls family move to the Dakota territory, claim a homestead, and brave the hardships and perils of living on the frontier.

Unhappy to leave her home and friends, Addie reluctantly accompanies her family to the Dakota Territory and slowly begins to adjust to life on the prairie.

Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge.

Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota.

Fifteen-year-old Laura becomes a school teacher, becomes engaged, and starts a new life as the wife of Almanzo Wilder.

While attending Bible School, Emily Evans feels God's call into full-time Christian service; however, it is one thing for her church to have faith enough to send her, and quite another for her faith to sustain her away from family and friends.

When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.

A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her family.

As his family makes the long and difficult journey from Tennessee to their new home in Texas in 1852, twelve-year-old Jericho Wetherby, teased by his sister and brothers about his size, learns there are many ways to grow.