On the Way Home (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
- First Published: 1962
- Time of Work: 1894
- Setting: South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri
- Principal Characters: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Almanzo Wilder, Rose, Mr. Cooley, Mrs. Cooley, Paul, George
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Diary
- Subjects: Family or family life, Traveling or travelers, Authors or writers, Autobiography, Rural or country life, Writing, Farms, farmers, or farming, Frontier or pioneer life
- Locales: Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Missouri
Form and Content
In 1894, after seven years of drought and a series of personal disasters, Laura Ingalls Wilder and her husband, Almanzo, decided to leave De Smet, South Dakota, and move to the Ozarks near Mansfield, Missouri. The journey, made in a wagon and covering a period of six weeks, was detailed in a diary that Laura kept along the way. Years later, after her death and after her Little House books had achieved wide popularity, Wilder’s daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, wrote a preface and an epilogue to the diary and published it as On the Way Home: The Diary of a...
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