West from Home Quotes

“San Francisco,
September 13, 1915

Believe me, there is no place like the country to live, and I have not heard of anything so far that would lead me to give up Rocky Ridge for any other place.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915

“We have had the thickest fog ever for several days. All night and all day we can hear the sirens on the different islands and headlands, and the ferries and ships at anchor in the bay keep their foghorns bellowing. We can not see the bay at all nor any part of San Francisco except the few close houses on Russian Hill. The foghorns sound so mournful and distressed, like lost souls calling to each other through the void. (Of course, no one ever heard a lost soul calling, but that’s the way it sounds.)”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915

“San Francisco,
September 13, 1915

Don't buy the horse unless you are sure it is gentle. I do not want you hurt while I am gone or any other time for that matter.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915

“Kansas City
Sunday, August 22, 1915

I'm going to find everyone kind and all the help I need, as usual.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915

“On the train
from Denver to Salt Lake
August 25, 1915

Manly Dear,
I wish you were here. Half the fun I lose because I am all the time wishing for you.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915

“Kansas City
Sunday, August 22, 1915

The country is flat and I can see as far as my eyes will let me.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915