After achieving her dream of becoming a teacher in her small farm town of Concord, Wisconsin, in 1857, seventeen-year-old Caroline Quiner, who will become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, begins a courtship with Charles Ingalls, a bachelor farmer who aspires to move west.
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