| On the Way Home | |
| Author: | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Country: | United States |
| Genre: | Diary, children's literature[1] |
| Subject: | Family migration, frontier life |
| Publisher: | Harper & Row |
| Pub Date: | November 12, 1962[2] |
| Media Type: | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages: | 101 pp. |
| Oclc: | 317883683 |
| Congress: | F598 .W54 |
| 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.