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On the Way Home

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On the Way Home
Front dustjacket, first edition
AuthorLaura Ingalls Wilder
SubjectFamily migration, frontier life
GenreDiary, children's literature[1]
PublisherHarper & Row
Publication date
November 12, 1962[2]
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages101 pp.
OCLC317883683
LC ClassF598 .W54[1]
Preceded byThe First Four Years (fiction) 
Followed byWest 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

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  1. ^ a b c d 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. ^ a b "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.