West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915

This fascinating firsthand account of life and travel in the early twentieth century includes 24 pages of photographs. “It is like a fairyland.” So Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the beloved Little House series, described her 1915 voyage to San Francisco to visit her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane. Laura’s husband, Almanzo, was unable to leave their Missouri farm; her faithful letters home, vividly describing every detail of her journey, have been gathered here. Perfect for supplementary classroom or homeschool research.