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For the family to survive, Pa has to go east alone to get a job to make money to get them through the year. The book ends with Pa returning safely to the house after being unaccounted for during a severe four-day blizzard. In Burr Oak, Iowa, Charles gets a promotion as a purchasing agent, and he takes Albert with him on a buying trip to Minnesota.
Melissa Gilbert (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Eventually, Jimmy does notice her as a girl, and Laura has her first kiss with a boy. Charles takes Mary to Chicago, where he is attending the Grange Convention. There, Mary meets up with John Jr., who has started a job as a cub reporter for a newspaper. Former lovebirds John and Mary soon find their lives headed in separate directions, especially for John Jr., who has a new girlfriend. Meanwhile Charles has problems with the corruption he witnesses at the Grange meetings. Mary, Nellie and Elmer (Eric Olson), an unpopular boy amongst the children, are in the running.
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Karen Grassle as Caroline “Ma” Ingalls
When his family and friends question if he is losing his grip on reality, Charles takes James away into the woods, and builds a shelter and a stone altar. Refusing to leave until James recovers, Charles prays to God for a miracle. When Laura announces that she is expecting a baby, Caroline says that she is also. Later, she finds out from Doc Baker that she is not expecting but is experiencing an early menopause and cannot have any more children. This devastates Caroline, who has tried to birth a surviving true male heir for Charles and fears she is worthless to him now because this is now impossible. An official from the Board of Education visits to assess the Walnut Grove school for state funding and he suggests that the curriculum should be extended.
Melissa Sue Anderson as Mary Ingalls
The first three seasons of the old sets notably are also missing closed captioning. The Long Winter begins in Dakota Territory at the Ingalls homestead on a hot August day in 1880. Pa tells Laura that he knows the winter is going to be hard because muskrats always build a house with thick walls before a hard winter, and this year, they have built the thickest walls he has ever seen.
The Caroline Years
When Laura pays a visit to Mrs. Taylor, she tricks Laura and traps her in the basement, because in her grief she deliriously imagines that Laura is her daughter Ellen. Laura's things are found outside the house of Busby, a mentally challenged and disfigured man whom Charles had warned his daughters to stay away from, and suspicion falls on him. While the hunt is on for Busby, Laura must rely on her wits to escape Mrs. Taylor's clutches and help her come to terms with Ellen's death, which she is finally able to accomplish along with help and support from her husband.
Season 5 (1978–
Laura comments on the varied ways they believe to have acquired it, with a neighbor woman asserting that it came from eating bad watermelon. Dr. Tan, an African American doctor, takes care of the family while they are sick. Around this time, Mr. Edwards brings Laura and Mary their Christmas presents from Independence, and in the spring, the Ingallses plant the beginnings of a small farm. The nine books in the original series tell the true story of Laura's family on the American frontier in the 19th century.
Albert struggles with feelings of guilt, while Jonathan Garvey starts to drink alcohol, blaming God for his wife's death. Later, a gift from Albert to Mary awakens her memory of the fire and the loss of her baby, and her screams frighten Albert into running away. Albert eventually seeks out his estranged father Jeremy, only to stumble upon a freshly-dug grave at his homestead and realize Jeremy has just died, and he has nowhere else to go now. Charles and Jonathan set out to discover the truth about the fire and to track down Albert, and it is Jonathan who convinces Albert that it wasn't his fault that the two had died.
Little House on the Prairie (TV series, 1974–
In his final role, he reunited with Landon on Highway to Heaven. For five seasons, he starred as Mark Gordon, a retired police officer, and also directed 12 episodes. A character actor with over 100 credits, he was the Doctor on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea from 1964 to 1968. He later returned to guest roles, including ER, Hill Street Blues and three episodes of Highway to Heaven, which reunited him with Landon. His final TV credit was in a 2011 episode of the Kelsey Grammer series, Boss.
Katherine MacGregor as Harriet Oleson
Mrs. Oleson spreads the news around the town, suggesting that Albert is the father. To raise money, Albert gets a job with the town's blacksmith, Irv Hartwig (Richard Jaeckel). When Mr. Webb finds out that Sylvia is still seeing Albert, he grabs his shotgun and goes to the Ingalls' house. They manage to convince him that Albert did not make Sylvia pregnant, but Sylvia has run off. As they search for her, the mystery rapist (revealed to be Hartwig) attacks both Sylvia and Albert, then is shot down by Mr. Webb.
Eventually, Charles discovers what happens and teaches Laura a lesson about lying. When Christmas comes around, all the Ingalls are caught up in the secrecy and excitement. Christmas Day brings some surprises, and Carrie learns the meaning of Christmas. Anticipating a bumper return from his wheat crop, Charles is devastated when a hail-storm flattens all the crops in the area. As a result, he has to travel away from home to find work and make some money, and meets up with Jack (Don Knight) and Jacob.
In fact, the years the events actually took place were 1869 to 1870. So Laura was actually two to three years old while the Ingalls family lived in Indian Territory during 1869–1870, and she did not remember the incidents herself. She did more historical research on this novel than on any other novel she wrote in an attempt to have all details as accurate as possible. Although the Little House series is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiographical account of events that really took place in her childhood, some of the details were modified in order to make the novels more appealing to a wider audience.
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