Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
---|---|
Country | United States |
Subject | Family migration, frontier life |
Genre | Diary, children's literature [1] |
Publisher | Harper & Row |
Publication date | November 12, 1962 [2] |
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.
Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
---|---|
Country | United States |
Subject | Family migration, frontier life |
Genre | Diary, children's literature [1] |
Publisher | Harper & Row |
Publication date | November 12, 1962 [2] |
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.