This is the sixth book in the highly acclaimed and beloved series of books chronicling the life of Laura Ingalls who lived at the end of the 19th century. The year that Laura was 13 and living in the Dakota Territory, there was a severe winter that lasted seven months, with blinding blizzards that came so quickly, people got lost in them and died. With no train able to bring supplies, the families in the little town were slowly starving, until Almanzo and another young man made a risky journey to buy some wheat to save the town. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.