Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the continent, turning noon into dusk, demolishing farm communities, and bringing tr

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

Each vol. relates to different injurious insects (i.e., 2nd, Rocky Mountain locust, and the western cricket; 3rd, Rocky Mountain locust, the western cricket, th