By the Shores of Silver Lake

Description

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.

First Sentence

Laura was washing the dishes one morning when old Jack, lying in the sunshine on the doorstep, growled to tell her that someone was coming.

Description

In the days of the building of the railroads and the final settlement of the West the Ingalls family moved from Minnesota, the scene of On the Banks of Plum Creek, to Dakota Territory. Pa became a railroad man for a time until he found a homestead and filed a claim. The family spent the winter in a surveyor's house sixty miles from the nearest neighbor. There was excitement when Laura and Mary took a thrilling train ride and when the attempted payroll robbery took place. That winter the family spent their happiest Christmas ever. In the Spring Pa put up the first building on the town-site near his claim, and two weeks later there was a brand-new town.

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Genres

• Juvenile fiction

Other Editions

• By the Shores of Silver LakeHardcoverHarper & Row1953-10-01
• By the shores of Silver LakeHarper & Brothers1939-01-01
• By the shores of Silver LakeHarper1953-01-01
• By The Shores Of Silver LakeHarperCollins Publishers1953-01-01
• By the Shores of Silver LakeHarper & Row Publishers1971-01-01
• By the shores of Silver LakeJames Clarke & Co Ltd1976-01-01