Central Kansas Library System

Story of farm life before farms were mechanized and electrified. "This farmer boy lived in northern New York about 1868. School days, beginning when he was nine years old, work on the farm and some innocent pleasures rounded out his life." Wis. bul.

Almanzo Wilder celebrates his birthday by breaking in a pair of calves and sledding on his new sled.

During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.

As he grows up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder dreams of having a colt of his own.