In later years, Lane wrote a book detailing the history of American needlework for "Woman's Day". She edited and published "On the Way Home", providing an autobiographical setting around her mother's original 1894 diary of their six-week journey from South Dakota to Missouri. Intended to serve as the capstone to the "Little House" series, the book was the result of Wilder's fans who were writing to Lane asking "what happened next?". She contributed book reviews to the William Volker Fund and continued to work on revisions of "The Discovery of Freedom", which she never completed.