Front dustjacket, first edition
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Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
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Country | United States |
Subject | Family migration, frontier life |
Genre | Diary, children's literature |
Publisher | Harper & Row |
Publication date
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November 12, 1962 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 101 pp. |
OCLC | 317883683 |
LC Class | F598 .W54 |
Preceded by | The First Four Years (fiction) |
Followed by | West From Home |
On the Way Home is the diary of an American farm wife, Laura Ingalls Wilder, during her 1894 migration with husband Almanzo Wilder and seven-year-old daughter Rose from De Smet, South Dakota, to Mansfield, Missouri, where they settled permanently.
It provides detailed, daily description of the family's migration and with 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.
On the Way Home is sometimes considered part of the Little House series, which is narrowly a series of nine autobiographical children's novels based on Wilder's life from about 1870 to 1894 in South Dakota, ages about three to 27.