La ilusión y la esperanza, tanto como la necesidad les llevarán una vez más hacia el Oeste, hasta las tierras de Dakota, donde conseguirán afincarse en las orillas del lago de Plata. Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

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.

A Christmas they never forgot: A sudden, fierce snowstorm traps the Ingalls family inside the little house on Christmas Eve so they pass the time by exchanging stories about their favorite Christmases of the past. The craftsman: Albert learns a painful lesson about prejudice when he becomes the apprentice to a lonely old woodcarver and is branded a "Jew lover" by his friends.

Difficult economic times cause the Ingalls to move closer to Mary who is teaching at the blind school in the city. They all prepare to celebrate Mary's birthday: Pa sells his fiddle to purchase her a present and Laura makes her a card written in braille. Everyone is moved to tears when Mary expresses her appreciation for the special people in her life --as they are everything she could ever really want.

Celebrate the holidays with two classic specials, restored to original broadcast length and remastered for superior picture and sound. In "Christmas at Plum Creek," the members of the Ingalls family share a heartwarming first Christmas in their new home, and Laura makes a personal sacrifice that captures the meaning of the holidays. In "A Christmas They Never Forgot," the family waits out a snowstorm by remembering favorite Christmases from the past....