West from Home facts for kids
Front cover of the first edition
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| Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
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| Country | United States |
| Series | Little House |
| Genre | Correspondence, travel |
| Publisher | Harper & Row |
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Publication date
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March 1, 1974 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 124 pp. |
| ISBN | 0-06-024111-X |
| OCLC | 1116569 |
| LC Class | PS3545.I342 Z55 1974 |
| Preceded by | On the Way Home |
| Followed by | The Rose Years cycle |
West from Home is a collection of letters sent by the American journalist Laura Ingalls Wilder to her husband Almanzo Wilder in 1915, published by Harper & Row in 1974 with the subtitle Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915. It was edited by Roger MacBride, the literary executor of their daughter Rose Wilder Lane, and provided with a historical "setting by Margot Patterson Doss". Wilder had been sent to San Francisco to write about the 1915 World's Fair and she visited Rose, who lived in that city, when she was 48 years old and Rose 28.
West from 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, ages about three to 27. On the Way Home, sometimes considered the preceding Little House book, is a diary of Laura and Almanzo's 1894 migration from South Dakota to Missouri, with setting by Rose Wilder Lane from her childhood recollections.
