1871

·         Little House in the Big Woods
Laura is 4, Mary is 6
Pepin, WI

1869

·         LH on the Prairie
Laura is 2
Independence, KS
Pa is 33 and Ma is 30

1866

·         Farmer Boy
Almanzo is 9
New York

1874-1876

·         On the Banks of Plumb Creek
Laura is 7
Walnut Grove, MN This is where they live in a dugout

1876-1877

·         Burr Oak, IA
The Lost Years

1877-1879

·         Back to Walnut Grove
Mary becomes blind in 1879

Almanzo, Royal, and Eliza Jane file homestead claims in De Smet in 1879

1879

·         Shores of Silver Lake
Laura is 12
De Smet, S.D.

1880

·         The Long Winter
Laura is 13
De Smet

1881

·         Little Town on the Prairie

·         Laura is 14

·         De Smet

1881

  
     ·    Mary goes to College

1882-1885

·         These Happy Golden Years

·         Laura is 15-18

·         Laura teaches her first school in 1882

1885

·         Laura & Almanzo marry

·         Laura is 18, Almanzo is 28

1887

·         Pa, Ma, Mary, Carrie, & Grace move into town / De Smet