By the Shores of Silver Lake

Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1939 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Modernist

Scarlet fever has taken Mary's sight and the family is behind on everything when Pa is offered timekeeper's work with a railroad crew pushing west into Dakota Territory. They camp beside a shallow lake among graders and gamblers, winter alone in the surveyors' abandoned house, and watch a town assemble itself out of bare prairie in a single spring. Laura, made the eyes of the household, is set to describing everything aloud.

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