BOOKS

*Published*	*Book*	*Dates*	*Laura's Age*
*1932*	*Little House in the Big Woods*	*1871-1872*	*4-5*
*1935*	*Little House on the Prairie*	*1873-1874*	*5-7*
*1937*	*On the Banks of Plum Creek*	*1874-1876*	*7-9*
*1939*	*By the Shores of Silver Lake*	*1879-1880*	*12-13*
*1940*	*The Long Winter*	*1880-1881*	*13-14*
*1941*	*Little Town on the Prairie*	*1881-1882*	*14-15*
*1943*	*These Happy Golden Years*	*1883-1885*	*15-18*

Laura's series for children ended with These Happy Golden Years, but Laura also wrote a manuscript narrating the first four years of her married life. It is not certain when this book was written, but many scholars believe Laura wrote it about the same time as her second "Little House" book, Farmer Boy, as a book for adults. The book was published in 1971 as The First Four Years.

In 1894, Laura, Almanzo, and Rose moved from De Smet, South Dakota, to Mansfield, Missouri. Laura kept a diary of their trip, and in 1962, Rose added information from her own memory and published the diary as On the Way Home.

In 1915, Laura went to San Francisco to visit Rose and to attend the World's Fair. She wrote frequent and lengthy letters to Almanzo during her stay, and these letters were published as West From Home in 1974.