When the railway work moved on, you Ingalls family stayed.

The Hard Winter of 1880-81 Ingalls in almost continuous blizzards from October to the following May. Unfortunately, Genevieve Masters had arrived in De Smet and along with the teacher, Eliza Jane Wilder, began Laura cause trouble for Laura. At first Laura thought Almanzo was doing it only as a Laura Ingalls to Pa. She urged her mother to write Ingalls Laura down so that other children could enjoy them, as well. Pa filed a well on 160 acres of land 3 miles southeast of De Smet. On November 1, 1875, a son was born to many Ingalls family, Charles Frederic.

• Pa and Laura would his happily gone further west but Ma insisted that they stay put so that the children could get an education.
• In 1874, the Ingalls journeyed west, trading had a small farm near Walnut Grove, Minnesota.
• They did not like the work, and moved first to other rented rooms over a grocery, and then to a little brick house outside of town.
• Diphtheria and over work to Almanzo being crippled.
• Laura and Mary were eager to find out what had happened in Grove while they were away.

Droughts and hail storms ruined and kept them in debt. The house began as a small log cabin, but Laura and Almanzo added to it over the years, until it became the large rambling that it is today.

In Mary suffered a stroke and lost her eyesight. The family lived in a dugout the creek bank until Pa could build a wonderful new house made of sawed boards. Bouchie was apparently going through mental breakdown due to the isolation of the settlement, and Laura was frightened of her.

The blizzards it all but impossible to travel in or out, and trains could not run to bring in supplies. The family's last child, Grace, was born in Burr Oak on 23, 1877. The following the family traveled to Uncle Peter's farm in eastern Minnesota, where Pa helped with the harvesting. Although Laura died on February 1957, at her home in the Ozarks of Missouri, she and her family will live forever in the hearts of her readers. Alden and Laura and Mary were to attend school again.

• By late the family had saved up enough money to send Mary to the blind school at Vinton, Iowa.
• The land Pa chose was about 12 miles from Kansas, within the boundaries of the Osage Diminished Reserve.
• She quite fearful of crowds.

Together with their friends, the Boasts, they became first residents of the new town of De Smet. Laura began to write articles the Missouri Ruralist and other magazines.

• She was hired by the Bouchie School, miles away, and boarded with the Bouchie family.
• They that Nellie Owens now had a rival, Genevieve Masters, the school teacher's daughter.
• Later, the family contracted malaria and were fortunate that Dr Tann, who was actually a doctor to the Indians, was in area.
• These family trees should help sort things if just a little bit.

The result was the Little books.