On the Way Home

In 1894 Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband Almanzo and their seven-year-old daughter Rose left their drought-stricken farm in South Dakota and traveled to a new farm—and a new beginning—in the Ozarks. In this extraordinary diary Mrs. Wilder describes the towns passed, the rivers crossed, and the many people they met along the way. And between the lines, and in Rose Wilder Lane's beautiful setting, we sense some of the happiness this frontier family shared.

Nearly forty years later, in 1932, Mrs. Wilder would begin writing her "Little House" books for children, in which she wrote evocatively of her own pioneer childhood in the American wilderness. Readers already familiar with the "Little House" books will welcome this further visit, with Laura. Those reading her for the first time will appreciate the accurate glimpse of the prairie frontier which her journal affords. For young adult and adult readers.