West from Home Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder Laura Ingalls Wilders went to San Francisco in 1915 to visit her married daughter, Rose Wilder Lane. Many years had passed since Laura traveled through the midwest as a child by covered wagon and now she made the long trip from Missouri to California by train. It was the perfect time to go--San Francisco was celebrating the opening of the Pana... more »ma Canal with a great world's fair. Since Almanzo could not leave the farm, Laura wrote her husband long letters to share with him the excitement and wonders of her trip. Her letters are filled with her descriptions of the country she saw, the people she met, and most of all the beauty of San Francisco and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. She also includes a few recipes from the Exposition which sh« less