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.
After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.
Laura Ingalls travels with her family from the big woods of Wisconsin to the prairies of Kansas, where they build a house, meet neighboring Native Americans, and face the challenges of frontier life.