USA Today Bestseller!
One of Refinery29's Best Reads of September
In this novel authorized by the Little House Heritage Trust, Sarah
Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier
in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that
illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never
before--Caroline Ingalls, "Ma" in Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little
House books.
In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family
leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm
bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing
what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband Charles, and
their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful,
unpredictable land full of promise and peril.
The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no
friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must
be shouldered alone, sickness tended without the aid of doctors, and
babies birthed without the accustomed hands of mothers or sisters. But
Caroline's new world is also full of tender joys. In adapting to this
strange new place and transforming a rough log house built by Charles'
hands into a home, Caroline must draw on untapped wells of strength she
does not know she possesses.
For more than eighty years, generations of readers have been enchanted
by the adventures of the American frontier's most famous child, Laura
Ingalls Wilder, in the Little House books. Now, that familiar story is
retold in this captivating tale of family, fidelity, hardship, love, and
survival that vividly reimagines our past.
