As other reviewers have noted, some of the events in this book are similar to a Laura Ingalls Wilder's On the Banks of Plum Creek. Young Pioneers was written by Wilder's daughter. It's a little bit grimmer in style and substance; it's for older kids, -- maybe 11 or 12.

A young couple marries and goes west to live on a claim. (In the version of the book I read, the couple in the book are named Molly and David. According to other reviews here, the book was originally published under the title Let the Hurricane Roar, with characters' names given as Charles and Caroline -- the names of Laura Ingalls Wilder's parents.

I really like the Little House books, but thought this one was just okay. Partly because of the bare-bones style and plot and partly because so many of the events were already familiar from On the Banks of Plum Creek. (But apparently this book was published about four years before Plum Creek.)