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Pioneer children made almost everything they used, wore or played with, now you can make the same crafts, such as, a rag doll, crazy quilts, moccasins, candlemaking, and toys.

Pa Ingalls decides to sell the old house, and the family sets out for Indian Country! They travel from Wisconson to Kansas and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and the family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie.

Uses materials from letters and diaries written by survivors of the Donner Party to relate the experiences of that ill-fated group as they endured horrific circumstances on their way to California in 1846-47.

"Enriched by over 200 vintage photographs, Frontier Children is a visual and verbal montage of childhood in the nineteenth-century West. From a wide range of primary and secondary sources, Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith, well known for their books on western women, have brought together stories and images that erase the stereotypes and bring to life the infinite variety of the experience of growing up in the American West."--BOOK JACKET

Follow Liz and Samuel Butler through the four seasons of 1843 to show what life was like for pioneer children, and features projects, games, and recipes that mirror their activities in their frontier home.

Uses letters, diaries, journals, and photographs to journey into the lives of the families who populated the pioneer West, from black Exodusters and Asian immigrants to Native Americans

Celebrate the holidays with two classic specials, restored to original broadcast length and remastered for superior picture and sound. In "Christmas at Plum Creek," the members of the Ingalls family share a heartwarming first Christmas in their new home, and Laura makes a personal sacrifice that captures the meaning of the holidays. In "A Christmas They Never Forgot," the family waits out a snowstorm by remembering favorite Christmases from the past....

Abandoned in the wilderness after their grandfather's death, two spunky orphans set out to claim their inheritance, a plot of land in Oregon. They cross paths with Zachariah Coop, an irresistible flim-flam man. This unlikely threesome struggles to survive an incredible journey.

After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.