In this novel authorized by Little House Heritage Trust, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before–Caroline Ingalls, “Ma” in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House books.In the frigid days of February, 1870, … 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable 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 of work must be shouldered alone, sickness tended without the aid of doctors, and babies birthed without the accustomed hands of mothers or sisters. But Caroline’s new world is also full of tender joys. In adapting to this strange new place and transforming a rough log house built by Charles’ hands into a home, Caroline must draw on untapped wells of strength she does not know she possesses.
For more than eighty years, generations of readers have been enchanted by the adventures of the American frontier’s most famous child, Laura Ingalls Wilder, in the Little House books. Now, that familiar story is retold in this captivating tale of family, fidelity, hardship, love, and survival that vividly reimagines our past.
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Really interesting reading events we know from Laura’s point of view in Caroline’s voice!
I thought I knew a lot about the Ingalls family, but this book has new details about their first journey West and why they had to return to Wisconsin.
Simply written but flowing prose sweetly tells the possible story of “little house” settlers. Has some interesting details of frontier life and what traveling in a wagon must have been like.
As a lover of “Little House on the Prairie,” it was a great read. I wanted to re-read the children’s books!
I loved it, nice to hear what the women who went west felt. They had to give up so much so their husbands wanted to head West. So many lost their children, their husbands and some lost their own life. What a struggle it must of been. I applaud these women, their sacrifice led to our generation’s good life.
All the love,struggles,happiness and sorry of the little house books.Not a great book,but worth a pot of tea and an afternoon!
I read the Little House books as a child. This book was interesting because it was told from the point of view of Caroline Ingalls (Ma). It was entertaining and informative.
If you loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder books as children, this will add a new dimension to the memory. It covers only a year or so in time as the family moves from Wisconsin to Kansas and the story is the voice of Caroline