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On the Way Home
On the Way Home cover.jpg
Front dustjacket, first edition
Author Laura Ingalls Wilder
Country United States
Subject Family migration, frontier life
Genre Diary, children's literature
Publisher Harper & Row
Publication date
November 12, 1962
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages 101 pp.
OCLC 317883683
LC Class 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 husband Almanzo Wilder and seven-year-old daughter Rose from De Smet, South Dakota, to Mansfield, Missouri, where they settled permanently.

It provides detailed, daily description of the family's migration and includes commentary by Rose – "a setting by Rose Wilder Lane". It was published in 1962, after Laura's death, by Harper & Bros., who had published her Little House series of novels.

On the Way Home is sometimes considered part of the Little House series, which is narrowly a series of nine autobiographical children's novels based on Wilder's life from about 1870 to 1894 in South Dakota, ages about three to 27.

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