Mr. Edward's Homecoming

Two new cast members are introduced in this episode. Actually, we met Victor French (who plays Mr. Edwards) in the premier movie. The Ingalls family are very glad to see him again. He was the only family they had when they were settled in the wild hills of Kansas!

The focus of this episode is Mr. Edwards. It's revealed in this episode that he had been married and lost his wife and daughter to sickness. We learn through the episode that he blames God. It's Caroline's sweet spirit that gets through to him to give God another chance.

We also see the start of the crude courting of Mr. Edwards to the Widow Snider who runs the post office. This episode has some tension in it, so for comic relief we have Grace drinking from a whiskey jug that Mr. Hanson believes contains an alcoholic beverage. Mr. Edwards does nothing to correct him.

Another introduction in this episode is the famous song, "Ol' Dan Tucker." and the hymn that was sung a lot, "Bringing in the Sheaves."