A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.

The story of the Jesse James gang, with the Carradine brothers playing the Youngers and the Keach brothers starring as Jesse and Frank James.

When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.

After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.

Relates episodes from the life of Daniel Boone, a talented hunter and woodsman who helped explore the American West. "Nadie puede abrir un camino ni rastrear un venado como Daniel Boone. Este joven hará posible que muchos pioneros viajen al Oeste"--Back cover.