On the Way Home

On the Way Home  

First edition cover
Author(s) Laura Ingalls Wilder
Country United States
Language English
Series Little House
Genre(s) Family Saga
Western
Publisher Harper & Brothers, Later, Scholastic
Publication date 1962
Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Preceded by The First Four Years
Followed by West From Home

On the Way Home is an original diary of Laura Ingalls Wilder from a trip that she made in 1894 with her husband Almanzo Wilder and a seven-year old daughter Rose from their home in De Smet, South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, where they settled for good

It contains detailed description, day by day, of the trip, with a commentary by her daughter Rose. The book was published for the first time in 1962, after Laura's death.