The sun-kissed prarie stretches out around the Ingalls family, smiling its welcome after their hard journey across America. But looks can be deceiving and they soon find that they must share the land with wild bears and Indians. Will there be enough land for all of them?

Inside the little house in the Big Woods live the Ingalls family: Ma, Pa, Mary, Laura and baby Carrie. Outside the little house are the wild animals: the bears and the bees, the deer and the wolves. This is the tale of how they live together, in harmony mainly, but sometimes in fear.

After all their travelling, from the Big Woods and the Prarie, the Ingalls family have found a place to settle - Plum Creek. Now Mary and Laura can go to school as there's a town close by. But how will they settle in such a busy place after the wild lands in which they've grown up?

From the author of Little House on the Prairie , this book tells of the first four years of Laura's marriage to Almanzo, the birth of their daughter Rose, and their struggle on the land on the South Dakota prairie. It also tells that their last pioneering journey brought them over that horizon to a lifelong and happy home.

May Dodd, born to wealth in Chicago in 1850, is imprisoned in a monstrous lunatic asylum. In 1875, Little Wolf, chief of the Cheyenne nation, comes to Washington to seal a treaty with President Grant and suggests that peace between Whites and Cheyenne could be established if the Cheyenne were given white women as wives.

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It is 1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township. But do they want to solve the crime or exploit it?

A history of the incredible heroism and dangerous folly of the mid-Western farmers who made their way to Oregon and California in the 1840s. Using original diaries and memoirs, it presents individual stories, such as that of Brigham Young and the Mormons, as well as thematic investigations.

Phoebe Judson was a young bride in 1853 when she and her husband crossed the plains from Ohio to the Puget Sound area of Washington Territory. Here, she gives an account of the journey west, detailing her fear, excitement, exhaustion, and how during the Indian Wars they holed up in a fort at Claquato.

A portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier.

Available for the first time in trade paperback, this beautifully wrought, passionately evoked novel of early America is a true masterpiece of historical fiction.

This classic of American literature is a tale of bravery and bloodshed and warring tribes in the early American frontier. The readings are supplemented by music from Smetana, Mussorgsky and Koechlin.

Describes the outdoor games children in colonial times played throughout the year, including "tiger in the corner," hopscotch, and tobogganing, as well as games involving marbles, spinning tops, and hoops.