By the Shores of Silver Lake

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.

subjects: Juvenile fiction,  Frontier and pioneer life,  Family life,  Fiction,  Newbery Honor,  Families,  Family,  Children's fiction,  Frontier and pioneer life, fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Novela juvenil,  Frontera y exploradores,  Familia,  Vida fronteriza y pionera,  Vida,  Family, fiction,  Social life and customs,  Manners and customs,  Pionniers,  19e siècle,  Minnesota, fiction,  North dakota, fiction,  West (u.s.), fiction,  award:Newbery_award

People: Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)

Places: South Dakota,  USA

Times: c.1880