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Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in Laura Ingalls Wilders ?Little House? series. The year is 1871 and five year old Laura Ingalls and her family, Pa, Ma, Mary, and Baby Carrie, live in a log cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. There is only one road that passes near by their cabin and they rarely see very many wagons going down the road. It is a full day's walk from …

…any friends or neighbors. So when relatives come, they are always very excited. Laura was among the early pioneers of the American west. They churned their own butter, made their own dolls, and hunted their own food. In this book, you hear stories of bears, owls, and panthers, and how you always had to be careful when going anywhere. This book also gives a very good idea about how things were back in the 1870?s.