Plum Creek

After leaving Wisconsin for the second time, because Pa still didn't want to be there, Laura and her family try again to settle west but this time, end up in Minnesota along a little river called Plum Creek. They found a dug out underneath a hill that would serve as a temporary home while Pa built a barn and Mary and Luara attended school at Walnut Grove. Luara loved to read, and her parents valued books too, so she always enjoyed her school days. Later after Christmas, the Ingalls experienced northern prairie blizzards that sometimes lasted for a week.
During the summer of 1875, Walnut Grove was attacked by grasshoppers. As Laura recalls it, " I have lived under uncounted millions of grasshoppers. I saw their bodies choke Plum Creek. I saw them destroy everything on the face of the earth. " That same year, people were leaving Walnut Grove because they didn't have any money, and Pa got a job to help run the Burr Oak House hotel in Iowa by one of his friends. So they packed up their things and said good bye to Minnesota and headed east, not west. " How I wished we were going west... Pa did not like to turn his back on the west either," - Laura Ingalls Wilder