A young pioneer girl and her family attend a wintertime party at her grandparents' house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

A young pioneer girl and her family celebrate Christmas in their cabin in the Wisconsin woods.

"A pioneer father tells his two small daughters why he was unable to shoot a deer for their dinner"--Verso page.

When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.

Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.

A pioneer father transports his beloved fruit trees and his family to Oregon in the mid-nineteenth century. Based loosely on the life of Henderson Luelling.

When Betsy Ward's family moves to Ohio from Connecticut in 1803, she brings along a sockful of coins to buy sheep so that she can gather wool, spin cloth, and make clothes to keep her children warm.

"A little girl and her pioneer family spend a summer in the Big Woods of Wisconsin"--Verso page.

Arriving on the American prairie in the hope of making a new home, Nora, a little girl from Russia, struggles with loneliness until Papa brings her a dozen chicks and two geese who follow Nora everywhere she goes.

The Golly Sisters, May-May and Rose, share further adventures as they take their traveling show through the West.