By the shores of Silver Lake

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: By the shores of Silver Lake (1939, Harper & Brothers)

260 pages

English language

Published Sept. 29, 1939 by Harper & Brothers.

OCLC Number:
12767778

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The Ingalls family had fared badly in Plum Creek, Minnesota. They were in debt. Mary was blind now. So Pa went West to work at a railroad camp in Dakota Territory where he could make as much as fifty dollars a month! Then he sent for his wife and four children, and they became the first settlers in the new town of De Smet. But the railroad brought hordes of land-hungry people from the East. Had Pa waited too long to file his homestead claim? - Back cover.

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Subjects

  • Frontier and pioneer life -- Juvenile fiction