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By the Shores of Silver Lake (2003)

By the Shores of Silver Lake (2003)

Children Western Family Fiction

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Year: 2003
Authors: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Print type: BOOK

Description:

The Ingalls family had fared badly in Plum Creek, Minnesota. They were in debt. Mary was blind now. So Pa went West to work at a railroad camp in Dakota Territory where he could make as much as fifty dollars a month! Then he sent for his wife and four children, and they became the first settlers in the new town of De Smet. But the railroad brought hordes of land-hungry people from the East. Had Pa waited too long to file his homestead claim? - Back cover.