The Ingalls family homesteads on their claim in DeSmet, South Dakota. Fifteen-year-old Laura begins to take schoolteaching jobs to raise money for Mary's college. Laura is surprised when Almanzo Wilder begins to seek her company.
Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's novels (1932 to 1943) based on her childhood in a settler family, which were the basis for the television series 'Little House on the Prairie' during the 1970s and early 1980s.