On the Way Home

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On the Way Home

Front dustjacket, first edition
Author	Laura Ingalls Wilder
Subject	Family migration, frontier life
Genre	Diary, children's literature[1]
Publisher	Harper & Row
Publication date	November 12, 1962[2]
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	101 pp.
OCLC	317883683
LC Class	F598 .W54[1]
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 her husband Almanzo Wilder and their seven-year-old daughter, Rose, from De Smet, South Dakota, to Mansfield, Missouri, where they settled permanently.^[1][2]

It provides a detailed, daily description of the family's migration and includes commentary by Rose ("a setting by Rose Wilder Lane").^[1] 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.

References

1. On the way home; the diary of a trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, …. Harper & Row. 1962. Retrieved September 17, 2015 – via Library of Congress Online Catalog.
2. "On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894". Kirkus Reviews. November 1, 1962. Retrieved October 2, 2015.