100 Mile Walk

What happens

A hailstorm flattens the Ingalls wheat crop just before harvest, and with it goes the money the family was counting on. Charles and other ruined farmers walk a hundred miles to find work at a rock quarry, where the jobs are brutal and dangerous.

At home, Caroline refuses to sit and wait. She organizes the farm wives and children to salvage what grain they can, cutting and threshing it by hand. Meanwhile the blasting and heavy rock at the quarry put Charles and the men around him in real danger. The episode shows both halves of the family fighting to keep the farm.