Young Pioneers , a novel by Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane was an American journalist, travel writer, novelist, and political theorist...

. It contains some actual events from her mother's (Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American author who wrote the Little House series of books based on her childhood in a pioneer family...

) childhood.

The books has been adapted as a tv-series The Young Pioneers

The Young Pioneers (TV series)

The Young Pioneers is a three-episode ABC western television series starring Linda Purl and Roger Kern in the role of young newlyweds Molly and David Beaton, who settle in the Dakota Territory during the 1870s...

and two TV movies - Young Pioneers

Young Pioneers (film)

Young Pioneers is a made for TV drama movie, based on the novel Young Pioneers by Rose Wilder Lane.Although it's classified as a fiction, it contains some biographical elements from the lives of Wilder and her mother Laura Ingalls Wilder. The movie was a Pilot for Young Pioneers TV-series, released...

 and Young Pioneers' Christmas.

Summary

Newlyweds Molly and David are only sixteen and eighteen years old when they pack up their wagon and head west across the plains in search of a new homestead. At first their new life is full of promise: The wheat is high, the dugout is warm and cozy, and a new baby is born to share in their happiness. Then disaster strikes, and David must go east for the winter to find work. Molly is left alone with the baby — with nothing but her own courage to face the dangers of the harsh prairie winter. Under Lane's original title Let the Hurricane Roar, the two characters are named "Charles" and "Caroline" which were the actual names of Lane's maternal grandparents - they were changed to "Molly" and "David" for the re-issue of the book as Young Pioneers.

Historical background

David is forced to go back east because of the grasshoppers plague. The very same thread is a part of her mother's "On the Banks of Plum Creek

On the Banks of Plum Creek

On the Banks of Plum Creek is a children's book written in 1937 by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The fourth of nine books written in her Little House series, it is based on Laura's childhood at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota in late 19th Century....

".

Both of those incidents actually happened to Laura when she was about seven and lived in Walnut Grove, Minnesota

Walnut Grove, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 599 people, 291 households, and 178 families residing in the city. The population density was 577.7 people per square mile . There were 341 housing units at an average density of 328.9 per square mile...

. Due to the grasshoppers, her father Charles Ingalls

Charles Ingalls

Charles Phillip Ingalls was the father of Laura Ingalls Wilder, known for her Little House on the Prairie series of books...

 had to leave home and look for a job. Her mother, Caroline

Caroline Ingalls

Caroline Ingalls, born Caroline Lake Quiner was the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House books.-Biography:...

 stayed with Laura and her two sisters, and they had to run the farm.

Young Pioneers (as "Let the Hurricane Roar") was first published in 1932 as a serial in The Saturday Evening Post while Laura Ingalls Wilder was writing Farmer Boy

Farmer Boy

Farmer Boy is a children's historical novel by Laura Ingalls Wilder. First published in 1933, it is the second book in the nine part Little House series, also known as "The Laura Years"...

as a following novel to her Little House in the Big Woods

Little House in the Big Woods

Little House in the Big Woods is a children's novel by Laura Ingalls Wilder and was published in 1932. This book is the first of the series of books known as the Little House series....

which had already been published. Lane's "Hurricane" was also published as a novel in 1932.

Officially, the novel is not a part of the Little House series but is published by HarperTrophy as if it were.