In February 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her 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 umpredictable 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 or help. The burden...

The story of the pioneering men and women who sowed the seeds of a nation with their courage and their blood, and how their paths would meet amid the epic struggle against fierce enemies and nature's cruelty to win, for all time, the rich and untamed West.

Eight-year-old Cassie Witting is upset when she finds out that her mother, Sarah, is expecting a baby, but writing in the journal that was her brother Caleb's helps her sort out her feelings and she finally learns that Sarah will always love her.

A family travels to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house and meet a friendly neighbor.