![]() ![]() Wilder depicts the most intense struggle to date (and the harshest until The Long Winter) as the Ingalls deal with the grasshoppers in Minnesota eating the wheat crop that is their living. Willow boughs had been laid across and their branches woven together, but here and there the hay that had been spread on them showed though.” The earth floor was smooth and hard…The ceiling was made of hay. The earth walls had been smoothed and white-washed. Laura went under those singing flowers into the dugout. ![]() Red and blue and purple and rosy-pink and white and striped flowers all had their throats wide open as if they were singing glory to the morning. “All around that door green vines were growing out of the grassy bank, and they were full of flowers. In a week’s time, there is no wheat crop left at all.” ![]() Soon millions of grasshoppers cover the field and everything on the farm. Then, just before the wheat is ready to harvest, a strange glittering cloud fills the sky, blocking out the sun. The money for materials will come from their first wheat crop. “Laura’s family’s first home in Minnesota is made of sod, but Pa builds a clean new house made of sawed lumber beside Plum Creek. ![]()
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