''On the Way Home'' is the diary of an American farm wife,
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer, teacher, and journalist. She is best known as the author of the children's book series ''Little House on the Prairie'', published between 1932 and 1 ...
, during her 1894 migration with her husband
Almanzo Wilder and their seven-year-old daughter,
Rose
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, from
De Smet, South Dakota, to
Mansfield, Missouri, where they settled permanently.
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It provides a detailed, daily description of the family's migration and includes commentary by Rose ("a setting by Rose Wilder Lane").][ It was published in 1962, after Laura's death, by Harper & Bros., who had published her Little House series of novels. It is sometimes considered part of the series, which is narrowly a series of eight autobiographical children's novels based on Wilder's life from about 1870 to 1894 in South Dakota, ages about three to 27.
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References
Little House books
1962 non-fiction books
Children's non-fiction books
Diaries
Harper & Row books
1894 in the United States
1962 children's books
Books published posthumously
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