Episode 125

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 16 "Winter Days"

Join us this week as we discuss muskrats in South Dakota, the history of checkers, and the word "immoderately".

Episode 124

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 15 "The Last Man Out"

Join us this week as we discuss Horace G. Woodworth, the "prairie cure" for consumption, buffalo wolves, Pa's prediction of Dakota winters, "Hail, Columbia!", "Highland Mary", "Coming through the Rye", "I'm Mrs. Jinks of Madison Square", the polka and the waltz.

Episode 123

Ch. 14 in By the Shores of Silver Lake "The Surveyor's House"

Join us as we discuss gables, the history of canned food, the location of Brookings, "Mary of the Wild Moor", and "Paddle Your Own Canoe".

Episode 122

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 13 "Breaking Camp"

Join us this week as we discuss "Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid (Nobody Asked You", Lena's ultimate fate, Jean's fate, Pa seeing in shades of grey, Brookings South Dakota, Robery Abey Boast, and what a sherriff did in the late 1800s.

Episode 121

Chapter 12 of By the Shores of Silver Lake "Wings Over Silver Lake"

Join us this week as we discuss brant, redheads, bluebills, canvasbacks, teals, mudhens, hell-divers, swans in South Dakota, Uncle Henry, Louisa, and Charley's fate, Pa earned $300, and the Ingalls girls becoming teachers. 

Episode 120

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 11 "Pay Day"

Join us this week as we discuss Laura helping Pa with haying?, $1,000 in cash, Pa's revolver, rifle, and shotgun.

Episode 119

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 10 "The Wonderdul Afternoon"

Join us this week as we discuss "A Life on the Ocean Wave", "Buy a Broom", Ma's opinion of Lena, Fresno scrapers, and Mary not supporting Laura's ventures. 

Episode 118

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 9 "Horse Thieves"

Join us this week as we discuss mashed potato cakes, bushwhack, brushing your hair 100 strokes a night, Ma stroking Laura's hair, and clearing up the confusion for this chapter.

Episode 117

By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 8 "Silver Lake"

Join us this week as the discuss seagulls in South Dakota, the Big Slough, what graders do, bedlam, ticking mattresses, where did Mary's rocking chair come from?, Stebbins' camp, pelicans in South Dakota, quonking, purple buffalo bean pods/ground plums/buffalo plums, and Mary laughing. 

Episode 116

By the Shores of Silver Lake chapter 7 "Where the West Begins"

Join us this week as we discuss the Big Sioux River, buffalo wallows, the 1800s buffalo population, "Uncle Sam's Farm", the James River, and where is Aunt Polly?