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They start building a new house, and Pa starts a farm as well as selling hay to the people in De Smet.
The next day, Pa gets the claim he wanted. The Ingalls move out of De Smet and go to their new land.
Everyone is trying to make sure they get the claim they want. Pa is next in line when the bank closes for the day. The other person that wants the same claim is right behind Pa in line. To make sure he gets the claim, Pa spends the night at the door of the bank, so he doesn't lose his spot in line.
They arrive in the town of De Smet, where there is only a couple of houses. There are many others moving to De Smet, because there is open land. There is a specific claim that Pa wants, but someone else wants it as well.
Whoever gets to the bank to buy it first will have the land.
Since grasshoppers have eaten all the plants, there is no way for the family to make an income. Everyone else living in the area is leaving as well. Pa wants to go West, where he can get a larger claim.
Laura and her family are moving for the third time. They had been living by the banks of Plum Creek, but a plague of grasshoppers ate all the crops. The Ingalls are going west again to help start a new town called De Smet.
The theme of this book is that you can go through rough times and still succeed. The grasshoppers ate all their crops and left them without any income, but the Ingalls still found a way to make it through.
What was the name of the town they moved to?
Where does Pa go to buy his claim?
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