West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915 - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Published for the first time, Mrs. Wilder's letters to her husband describe her trip from Mansfield, Missouri, to San Francisco during the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. Illustrated with photos. \n \nThis fascinating firsthand account of life and travel in the early twentieth century includes 24 pages of photographs. \n \nIt 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.\n \nPerfect for supplementary classroom or homeschool research.\n