Books like By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
After years of hardship and mounting debts in Plum Creek, Minnesota, the Ingalls family faces a bleak future. Maryβs blindness compounds their difficulties, prompting Pa to travel westward to a railroad camp in the Dakota Territory where he earns as much as fifty dollars a month. Once he has established a modest income, he sends for his wife and four children to join him in the new settlement of De Smet. There they become the first settlers of the town, but the arrival of the railroad attracts a flood of landβhungry newcomers from the East. Faced with a growing and restless population, questions arise about whether Pa has waited too long to file his homestead claim.
First publish date: April 15, 2003
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Laura Ingalls Wilder
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