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S
Sabbath
sacre bleu
saddle
saddlehorn
ponies / horses
riding without saddle or bridle
sadiron
sage
sage-green
stuffing
Sail on, Silver Moon, see
Roll On
Silver Moon
St. Lawrence River
St. Paul, Minnesota
saleratus
saloon
Brown's saloon
saloonkeeper
salt meat
fish / codfish
salt meat / salt pork / salt-pork
venison
saltpeter
salt-rising bread
salve
Sam
samplers
sandpaper
sandpiper
Sanford, Edwin
Santa Claus
sap
sapling
Saranac, New York
satchel
satin
satin-smooth
satiny
sausage
balls
gravy
sausage cakes / sausage-cakes
sausagemeat
making
savage
savages
saw / sawing
cross-cut saw
"don't saw the bits"
sawed by machinery
sawed boards / sawed lumber / sawed-lumber
sawing ice
small saw
sawdust
"dry as sawdust"
sawhorse
sayings
scalawag
scald
scalding hot / scalding-hot
scale, fish
scale, weight
scale, singing
scalp
scalped
scalp-lock / scalplock
scarlet fever
Schaub, Frank
Schaub's harness shop
school
districts
Exhibition
Laura teaches first school in De Smet
school bell
school board
school books / school-books / schoolbooks
school-clothes
school district
schoolgirl
school house / school-house / school shanty
schoolmates
schoolroom
school teacher / school-teacher / schoolteacher, see also teach
school term
schooltime
schoolyard
superintendent
trustees
Scotland
Scotch / Scotchwoman / Scottish / Scots
"nothing can beat the Scotch"
Scott family
Mr.
Mrs.
scour
scouring-brick
scrabble
scrap
scrap-bag / scrapbag
scraper
to push wheat
screech-owl
screen
blanket
door
over food
smoke
scud
"Sculptor Boy, The"
scythe
seamstress
Second Street
section-line
sedate
separator
sermon
text from the sermon
settle
settlement
Brewster settlement
Hardscrabble Settlement, see Hardscrabble
Indian Territory would be open for settlement soon
settler
government sending soldiers to take the white settlers out of Indian Territory
Pa as oldest settler in De Smet
when white settlers come into a country, the Indians have to move on
sew
machine-sewing
sewing machine
wax-sewed
Shakespeare, William
"Cromwell, I charge thee..."
Shall auld acquaintance be forgot, see
Auld Lang Syne
Shall I be carried to the skies, see
Am I a
Soldier of the Cross
sham
pillow shams / pillow-shams
shanty
boarding
claim
cook-shanty
railroad
school shanty / school-shanty
shanty Irishman
sod
shares, working on
shaving-bench
shawl
silk
shawl-pin
sheaf
shear
sheep-shearing
sheep-shearer
shears
barber's
sheep
She can make a cherry pie, Billy boy! Billy boy!
see
Billy
Boy
shed
backdoor
cattle / calf
church sheds
machine-shed
stock-shed
tool-shed / toolshed
wood shed / woodshed
sheep
as white as a lamb
"Bo-peep has Lost Her Sheep"
Cotswold
"gentle as a lamb"
lamb
"Mary's Little Lamb"
Merino
"might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb"
shearing
shears
sheepfold
sheepish
sheep's gray
sheepskin
sheep sorrel / sheep-sorrel, see sorrel
"three jerks of a lamb's tail"
"two shakes of a lamb's tail"
"When March comes in like a lamb, it goes out like a lion"
white as a lamb
shell
eggshell
"pea under a shell" game
pearl-shell pin
sea shell
shelled / shelling
Shelter in
the Time of Storm, A
Sheldon, Reverend Stewart (fictional Reverend Stuart Scott)
shpeherdess, china
sheriff
Sherwood, Arthur
shilly-shallying
shiner, fish
shingle
boughten-shingle
shirk
shirred
shock
oat
corn
wheat
shoes
bed shoes
box
brushing
calfskin
china
copper-toed
high-buttoned
horseshoe
making
saving shoes for winter
shoe-button
shoe-pegs
shoe tips
shoe-tops
"with a double ruffle around her neck and nary a shoe to wear"
shot, for gun
shotgun
shoulder, of ham
shovel
railroad
shovel gangs
shovel-men
stove
shutter
shuttle, see also weaving
siding / sided
sidewalk
sieve
sill
silk
embroidery
silky / silkier / silkiness
smooth as silk / like silk
Silver Lake
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Silver Lake Camp
"since Hector was a pup"
sing
"her heart sang with the song on her lips"
singing book
singing school
singing to cows while milking
singsonged
"We can sing!"
Sing a Song
of Sixpence
Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, see
Sing a Song
of Sixpence
Singing
School, The
Sioux City, Iowa
Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory
sister
Sister
sitting room
sixty years ago
sixty-seven years ago
skedaddle
skein
skid
skim
skimmed milk / skim-milk
skimmer
skim-milk cheese
"skimming" motion
skinflint
Skip
skunk
slab
slat
roll-top desk
slat / slatted sunbonnet
slate
Braille slate
slate pencil
slate-rag
"special slate to write on"
sled
bobsled
handsled
hand-bobsled
hay-sled
sled riding / sled-riding
sled-runner, see also runner
sled-stakes
sled-track
sleigh
sleighing / sleighriding / sleigh-ride
sleigh bell / sleigh-bell
slough
Big Slough
slough grass / slough-grass
slough hay
slough-lakes
slur
Smith, Art, see "The Story of Art Smith"
smitten
smoke
"as blue as tobacco smoke"
breath like smoke
cigar
coal
creek water compared to
dust
"go up in smoke"
hickory
pipe smoking
powder
smoke-blackened
smoked herring
smoke screen
smokehouse
smoking meat
smudge
snow looks like
tobacco
train
tumbleweeds
smokestack
smudge
snake
black-snake whip / blacksnake whip / ox-whip
"crawl like a snake" / snakelike
"a disgrace to snakes"
garter snakes
like snake's eyes
shedding skin like a snake
snip
snip, hoity-toity
snipe
"long-legged snipes!"
snow
"before the snow flies"
"chance of a snowball in hades"
freezing / smothering animals
making pictures in
lost in a snowstorm
"poor man's fertilizer"
rubbing with snow to thaw frozen flesh
seventh winter
snowball / snowballing
snow bank / snowbank
snow crust / snowcrust
snow drift / snowdrift / drift of snow
snowflakes
snow-fort
snowman
sugar snow
snowstorm
snow-water
snow-white / white as snow / snowy
tunnel in the snow
wash faces with
snowball, bushes
snowbird
snow-blind
snowplow
soap
making
soft soap / soft-soap
store
sociable
Aid Society / Ladies' Aid
church
dime
sod
breaking
potatoes
prairie sod
shanty / house
sod corn
sod-ground
stable / barn
soda
crackers
soda-water
So green grows the laurel and so does the rue, see
Green Grows
the Laurel
Soldat du Chene
solemn
soldier
"a little soldier in this great battle"
Am I a Soldier of the Cross
Army soldiers at Fort Dodge / Fort Gibson / Independence
Army soldiers in the Black Hills
Northern soldiers
sent to remove settlers from Indian Territory
Southern soldiers
Spaniards
tin
Some like it hot, some like it cold, see
Bean
Porridge Hot
somersault
Song of the
Freed Men, The
Song of the
Grass
songs, see individual song titles or search by first line from the "Little House" book text
cowboy songs
soot
sooty
sooty black
soprano
sorrel
sheep sorrel / sheep-sorrel
woodsorrel
sour dough / sour-dough / sourdough
biscuits
bread
making
sow / sowing
"sow turnips the twenty-fifth of July, wet or dry"
Sowing the seed by the daylight fair, see
What Shall
the Harvest Be?
spade
Spain
Spanish
Spanish needle grass
spare-rib
"spare the rod and spoil that child"
sparrow
"God that doesn't forget the sparrows..."
spat
spatter
"Speech of Regulus"
spell
breathing
cold
warm
spellbound
spelling
book / speller
spelling down / spelling-down / spelling match
spike
spider
spinning wheel / spinning-wheel
spin-off books to the "Little House"® series
spoon holder / spoon-holder / spoonholder
sprigged
spring, water
spring, season
"in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love"
"not a penny going out till spring"
spring-like
spring rush
spring seat
Spring Valley, Minnesota
Methodist Church Museum
sprout
sprouting hoe
sprouting feathers
spruce
spur
Square, the
squash
baked
baked Hubbard squash
mashed yellow
squirrel
"as big as squirrel's ears"
red squirrels
stable
dugout
Livery, Sale and Feed Stable
livery
sod
stable-boots
stall
box-stalls
stanchion
starch
boiled
potato-starch mill
starchy smell
Starlight
Star of
Bethlehem, The
Stars and Stripes, see also flag
Star-Spangled Banner, The
starve
starve to death / starving to death
starved / starving
"will we starve?"
winter-starved
States
California
Florida
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New York
Ohio
Oregon
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
Wisconsin
station, see also depot
Steadman family
William
Mary
Johnny
Reuben
Tommy
Mary
steam
steamer
steam-power
steam-pressure
steel
cut-steel buttons
knives, forks, spoons
rails / tracks
scraper
steels, see corset
steer
Stebbins
Stebbins' Camp
stick-and-daub
stirrup
stitch
back-stitching, see back-stitching
buttonhole
catch-stitching, see catch-stitching
cobbler's
criss-cross, holding in whalebones
cross-stitch, see cross-stitch
fancy knitted
feather-stitching tracks, see feather-stitching
hem
machine-stitched
stock, animals
stock-sheds
stock, clothing
stockade, see also bastion, fort
stocking
Christmas
lace
machine-knitted
stocking-feet
stop
store
Beadle's store and post office
Bradley's drugstore
company store
feed store
Case's store
Clancy's store
Couse Hardware
drugstore
Fitch's store
Fuller's hardware store
grocery store
Harthorn's store
Hinz's store
Ingalls' store building
Loftus store
Oleson's store
Pa builds a store building to sell
store-boughten
"stored down cellar in a teacup"
store in Independence
store in Pepin
storeroom
store / store away
store soap
store sugar
stores in Walnut Grove
Tinkham furniture store
Wilder's feed store
Wilmarth grocery
store-keeper / storekeeper
railroad company
Royal Wilder as storekeeper
Stories of the Moorland, see Stories from the Moorland
"The Story of Art Smith"
stove
blacking / polishing
coal stove
cook-stove / cookstove
heating stove / heating-stove
"let me in by the stove!"
round-bellied
stove blacking / stove-blacking
stovepipe
stovewood
tin
strap
horse never wore a strap
"Pull ourselves up by our own boot straps"
used for punishment
straw
braiding
broom straws
hat
oat straw / oat-straw
sliding / rolling down the straw-stack
straw stack / straw-stack / strawstack
straw tick / straw-tick / strawtick
wheat-straw
strawberry
and cream
butter mold design
dress fabric
pin design
preserves / jam
strawberry-time
stream
downstream
of people
midstream
upstream
struck ox
strung up
Stuart, Reverend, see Sheldon, Stuart
stubble
beard
field / land
stud
stuffing, see also dressing
bread-stuffing
bread-and-onion
sage
stuffed hen
stuffed goose
stump, tree
grubbing out stumps
jumping from stump to stump
Pa mistakes burned stump for bear
used as chairs
stump, of Jack's tail
stylus
succotash
sugar
brown
brown-sugar syru[
making
maple sugar / maple-sugar
store sugar
sugar-barrel
sugar bowl
sugar-cured
sugar-frosted
"...sugar is sweet, and so are you"
sugaring-off dance / sugaring-dance
sugar-off
sugar snow
sugar-white
syrup
white
sulky
sullen
sumac
sunbonnet
"keep your sunbonnet on"
slat sunbonnet
sunbonnet strings
Sunday school / Sunday-school
card
lessons
sunflower
sunflower song, see The Big Sunflower
superintendent
railroad
school / shanty
surveyor
head surveyor
surveyors' house
surveyors; office
surveyors' pantry
surveyors' stakes
Susan (Laura's doll)
suspenders
swagger
swallow
"fast and smooth as swallows flying..."
swan
swan's-down / skin
"Swan's Nest, The"
Swanee River, see Old Folks at Home
swath
swear / swear words
blamed / blasted
durn / durned
"gol ding it!"
"I'll be durned"
"enough to make a saint swear"
"enough to make a saint use strong language"
rough language
wooden swearing
Sweden
Swede
Swedish
Swedish crackers, see crackers
Sweet By and
By
sweet potato / sweet-potato
plants
Sweet Sabbath School more dear to me, see
My Sabbath Home
Sweet Sabbath School! more dear to me, see
My Sabbath Home
"sweets to the sweet"
swim
Jack lost
swimming hole / swimming-hole / pool
"Swing your partners!"
switch
sycamore
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