In this novel authorized by the Little House estate Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty hardship and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction a captivating story that illuminates one courageous resilient and loving pioneer woman as never before—Caroline Ingalls 'Ma' in Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books.
In the frigid days of February 1870 Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon Caroline her husband Charles and their little girls Mary and Laura head west to settle in a beautiful unpredictable land full of promise and peril.
The pioneer life is a hard one especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone sickness tended without the aid of doctors and babies birthed without the accustomed hands of mothers or sisters. But Caroline's new world is also full of tender joys. In adapting to this strange new place and transforming a rough log house built by Charles' hands into a home Caroline must draw on untapped wells of strength she does not know she possesses.
For more than eighty years generations of readers have been enchanted by the adventures of the American frontier's most famous child Laura Ingalls Wilder in the Little House books. Now that familiar story is retold in this captivating tale of family fidelity hardship love and survival that vividly reimagines our
