By The Shores Of Silver Lake/Chapter #21/🎀"MERRY CHRISTMAS"🎀

By The Shores Of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder Chapter #21 🎀"MERRY CHRISTMAS"🎀 By the Shores of Silver Lake is the fifth book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic Little House series, published in 1939, detailing the Ingalls family's move to the Dakota Territory where Pa works on the railroad, and they settle near Silver Lake, eventually helping to build the town of De Smet. The story covers Laura's life from age 12, her first train ride, a lonely winter in a surveyor's house, and the family's efforts to claim land, all while dealing with the challenges of frontier life, including the aftermath of scarlet fever that left her sister Mary blind.