Little House on the Prairie: The Cast and Behind the Scenes

West From Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder

In 1974, Harper & Row published West From Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder. It features a collection of letters Laura sent to Almanzo in 1915. Laura traveled to San Francisco in 1915 to visit her daughter Rose and to write about the World’s Fair. At the time, Laura was 48 and her daughter was 28.

This book is considered part of the Little House series by some people. It is essentially a diary of Laura and Almanzo’s 1894 move from South Dakota to Missouri. Daughter Rose presents the setting using her recollections from childhood. It was published the same year the TV show hit the air.