It was 1894 when Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, Almanzo, and their daughter, Rose, left their home in De Smet, North Dakota, and traveled to Mansfield, Missouri. Seven years of too little rain had caused crop after crop to fail and the prairie had turned to dust. The Wilders packed their wagon, said their goodbyes and set out to begin a new life. Laura recorded their journey in a diary and it is those entries taht fill these pages.
