By the Shores of Silver Lake

The Ingalls family leaves their Wisconsin home for the Dakota Territory, where Pa has taken a job as a timekeeper for the railroad. Laura is now thirteen, and with Mary blind from scarlet fever, she must be "Mary's eyes," describing the vast prairie landscape in vivid detail. The family settles in a surveyor's house by Silver Lake, enduring a harsh winter before witnessing the birth of the frontier town of De Smet. This fifth book in the beloved Little House series captures the excitement of westward expansion, the bonds of family love, and Laura's coming-of-age on the American frontier.