This story continues the adventures of the family we first met in Mrs. Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods. Ma and Pa and Mary and Laura move to Kansas, which was Indian country in those days. For many days they traveled in the big covered wagon, across the empty prairies and through rushing rivers. When they found a place they thought would be nice to live in, Pa built a log cabin. Ma helped, while Mary and Laura watched the baby and looked for jackrabbits and prairie hens.

Indian country proved to be exciting. Some nights there were wolves, quite close, and more than once Mary and Laura saw Indians—chiefs and squaw and brown-skinned children just their own age, and papooses. Windy northers sometimes blew, and once the chimney caught on fire when Pa was away.

But the family was happy. Just as they made the best of what was at hand—they planted and plowed, hunted wild ducks and turkeys, chopped logs and firewood, and gathered grass for the cattle. Mary and Laura liked it all, and when, at the end of the year, they moved on in the covered wagon, they were sorry to see the last of the little log cabin on the plains. 

From the dust jacket