This TV drama served as the pilot for a short-lived TV series of the same title. Presumably, the series was soon ended because of the much greater popularity of the contemporaneous "Little House on the Prairie" series, which covers much of the same territory.
It's pretty obvious while watching it that the made-for-TV movie "Young Pioneers" was a pilot for a series, which did become a brief reality a couple of years later. But don't worry, this movie is able to stand on its own without seeing the follow-up series.
In 1933 Rose Wilder Lane published a book called "Let the Hurricane Roar," which was also published as a serial in The Saturday Evening Post. This was a fictionalized adult novel about her maternal grandparents, Charles and Caroline Wilder.
