She wasn't the bold one or the famous one; she was the quiet sister who lived it all.

Carrie Ingalls was born on the wild Kansas prairie in 1870, the third daughter of Charles and Caroline Ingalls. While her sister Laura would one day write their family's story in the Little House books, Carrie lived a journey all her own; one filled with wagons and dugouts, grasshopper plagues and blizzards, bustling towns and lonely prairies.

From her first home in a Kansas cabin to the dugout by Plum Creek, from Burr Oak's busy hotel to the long, cold winter in Dakota, Carrie's life carried her across the changing American frontier. As she grew up, she worked as a typesetter, helped raise her sisters and stepchildren, and built a quiet life among the pine-covered Black Hills; even as she watched the world around her transform from covered wagons to automobiles and radios.