 Front dustjacket, first edition | |
| 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.
