Central Kansas Library System

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.

The Ingalls family moves to the Dakota territory, claims a homestead, and braves the hardships and perils of living on the frontier. Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

"The award-winning author of The River Wife returns with a multi-generational family saga, set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sandhills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee--an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land."-- Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota...

Over 30 million buffalo grazed the rich grasslands of the great plains and prairies of North America. Then, nearly 140 years ago -- from 1880 to 1883 -- they made their last stand in the region between Hettinger, North Dakota, and Lemmon, Bison, and Buffalo, South Dakota. This companion to Dakota Buttes Visitors Council's self-guided tour book, Buffalo Trails in the Dakota Buttes, gives a boarder, in-depth report of ancient hunting methods, the buffalo's...