Heading West: Life with the Pioneers, 21 Activities

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the loaded wagon over the hills of Missouri so he traded them for a team of bigger horses Laura cried when they had to leave the familiar little horses When Laura thought back on that trip she remembered the spring flowers among the green leaves in the forest She remembered the creaking of the wagon wheels the snorting of the horses and Pa's soft voice singing She remembered the smell of the damp earth and the meadow warm in the sun Laura was to use these memories much later to write a series of books that children still love today the Little House books Like Pa Laura was a true pio neer with an itchy foot She wanted children to understand what pioneer life was like Laura was 65 years old before her first book Little House in the Big Woods was published She had planned to write one book but children loved the book and begged her to write more That's how the series of Little House books was born Thousands of other pioneers had stories similar to Laura's Although they faced the same problems each person had his or her own way of reacting All these different personalities and stories made the set tlement of the West an interesting