The villiage of Cooperstown, named for its Quaker founder, William Cooper, lay near the edge of a forest. Fascinated by its dark green depths, its mysterious hiding places, James, youngest but one of the twelve Cooper children, had many romantic dreams about it - dreams and romances that stayed with him long afterwards and found their way into his books, The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, and the rest of the Leather Stocking Tales.

When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect spot for Pa to build them a new home. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. But just when they begin to feel settled, they are caught in the middle of a dangerous...

A sure hand with a horse, a dead shot with a rifle, and fast with her wits, Echo travels to the mountains of Tennessee where she meets ruthless killers who will stop at nothing to cheat her of her inheritance.

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

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.

They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who'd headed east to see the ocean but left his heart--and his home--in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell for a gambling man in the midst of a frontier gold boom. These pioneering...

Follows the adventures of members of the Sackett family in the frontier West.

Follows the adventures of members of the Sackett family in the frontier West.

Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.