A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.

Nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State at the end of the nineteenth century. He raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

A young pioneer girl and her family prepare to leave the big woods of Wisconsin and travel west in their covered wagon.

During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.

A pioneer father tells his two small daughters why he was unable to shoot a deer for their dinner.

Mr. Edwards helps Laura and her family celebrate a happy Christmas on the prairie.

A young pioneer girl and her family celebrate Christmas in their cabin in the Wisconsin woods.

Laura and her pioneer family struggle against hardships on the Kansas frontier, including a prairie fire, a grasshopper invasion, and a blizzard.

A little girl and her pioneer family spend a summer in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.