<P> The book tells about the months the Ingalls family spent on the prairie of Kansas , around the town of Independence , Kansas . At the beginning of this story , Pa Ingalls decides to sell the house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin , and move the family , via covered wagon to the Indian Territory near Independence , Kansas , as there were widely circulating stories that the land ( technically still under Osage ownership ) would be opened to settlement by homesteaders imminently . So Laura , along with Pa and Ma , Mary , and baby Carrie , move to Kansas . Along the way , Pa trades his two horses for two Western mustangs , which Laura and Mary name Pet and Patty . </P>
<P> The book tells about the months the Ingalls family spent on the prairie of Kansas , around the town of Independence , Kansas . At the beginning of this story , Pa Ingalls decides to sell the house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin , and move the family , via covered wagon to the Indian Territory near Independence , Kansas , as there were widely circulating stories that the land ( technically still under Osage ownership ) would be opened to settlement by homesteaders imminently . So Laura , along with Pa and Ma , Mary , and baby Carrie , move to Kansas . Along the way , Pa trades his two horses for two Western mustangs , which Laura and Mary name Pet and Patty . </P>
what is the setting for little house on the prairie
what is the setting for little house on the prairie
the prairie of Kansas , around the town of Independence , Kansas
the prairie of Kansas , around the town of Independence , Kansas