“As far as I could see, covered wagons stood one beyond another in a long, long line. Behind them and over them, high over half the sky, a yellow wave of dust was curling and coming. My mother said to me, ‘That’s your last sight of Dakota.’” Rose Wilder Lane recorded her memory in On the Way Home, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s diary of the family’s trip in 1894 from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri. Tucked inside Laura’s writing desk was a $100 bill that she had earned working as
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