Butter in the well: A Scandinavian woman's tale of life on the prairie

Hubalek, Linda K.

Hearth Pub.

Avalee Exchanges her Fiancé (Mismatched Mail-Order Brides)

Romance

Historical

Independently published

Maggie Shifts her Gent (Mismatched Mail-Order Brides)

Experience the terror of the fighting and the determination to endure as you stake a claim alongside the women caught in the bloody conflicts of Kansas in the 1850s. Follow the widowed Margaret Ralston Kennedy (a relative of the author) in this second book of the Trail of Thread series, as she travels with eight of her thirteen children from Ohio to the Territory of Kansas in 1855. Thousands of American headed west in the decade before the Civil War, but those who settled in Kansas suffered through the frequent clashes between proslavery and free-state fractions that gripped the territory. Margaret was dedicated to the cause of the North, and while the male members of her family were away fighting for a free state, she valiantly defended t heir homestead and held their families together through the savage years of Bleeding Kansas. Told through her letters, Thimble of Soil describes the prevalent hardships and infrequent joys experienced by the hardy pioneer women of Kansas, who struggled to protect their families from terrorist raids while building new homes and new lives on the vast unbroken prairie. Watch for the twelve quilt patterns mentioned in the letters.

Thimble of Soil: A Woman's Quest for Land (Trail of Thread Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Imagine surveying your farmstead on the last day of your life, reviewing the decades of joys, hardships, and changes that have taken place on the eighty acres you have called home for the past fifty years. Would you feel at peace or find remorse at the decisions that took place in your life? This third book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Charlotta Johnson as she recalls the events that shaped her family s destiny. A mixture of fact and fiction, based on the author s family, this book reviews the events that shaped this Swedish immigrants family as her children reached adulthood and had families of their own. Join Charlotta as she reminisces about the important places and events in her past as she bids farewell to her mortal life on the Kansas prairie.

Harvesting Faith: Life on the Changing Prairie (Planting Dreams Series)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Feel the uncertainty, doubt, and danger faced by the pioneer women of Kansas as they defend their homes and pray for their men during the Civil War. We think the Civil War took place in the South, but the plains state endured their share of battles and tragedy. Not only did Kansas and Missouri experience a resurgence in the terrorist raids that had plagued them in the years before the war, but the Confederate Army tried several times to sweep across the Great Plains and capture the West. Stitch of Courage, the third book in the Trail of Thread series, tells the story of the orphaned Maggie Kennedy, who followed her brothers to Kansas in the late 1850s. The niece of Margaret Ralston Kennedy, the main character in Hubalek s Thimble of Soil book, Maggie married the son of Deborah Pieratt, whose story was told in the Hubalek s Trial of Thread book. In letters to her sister in Ohio, Maggie describes how the women of Kansas faced the demons of the Civil War, fighting bravely to protect their homes and families while never knowing from one day to the next whether their men were alive or dead on the faraway battlefield. Twelve quilt patterns are stitched into this story.

Stitch of Courage: A Women's Fight for Freedom (Trail of Thread Series)

In this first book of the Trail of Thread series, in the form of letters she wrote on the journey, Deborah Pieratt describes the scenery, the everyday events on the trail, and the task of taking care of her family. Stories of humor and despair, along with her ongoing remarks about camping, cooking, and quilting, make you feel as if you pulled up stakes and are traveling with the Pieratts, too. This series is based on author Linda K. Hubalek's ancestors that traveled from Kentucky to Kansas in 1854. Besides the history of the times, Hubalek weaves quilting facts and quilt pattern sketches in her book series.

Trail of Thread: A Woman's Westward Journey (Trail of Thread Series)

Children's Books

History

The inevitable happens- time moves on and we grow older. Instead of our own little children surrounding us, grandchildren take their place. Each new generation lives in a new age of technology, not realizing the changes the generations before theirs has seen- and improved for them. The cycle of life has changed the prairie also. The endless waves of tall native prairie grass have been reduced to uniform rows of grain crops. The curves of the river had shifted over the decades, eroded by both man and nature. The majestic prairie has been tamed over time. In this fourth book of the Butter in the well series, Kajsa Svensson Runeberg, now age 75, looks back at the changes she has experiences on the farm she homesteaded 51 years ago. She reminisces about the past, resolves the present situation, and looks toward their future off the farm.

Looking Back: The Final Tale of Life on the Prairie (Butter in the Well Series)

Arts & Literature

Drought has scorched the farmland of Sweden and there is no harvest to feed families or livestock. Taxes are due and there is little money to pay them. But there is a ship sailing for America, where the government is giving land to anyone who wants to claim a homestead. So begins ta migration out of Sweden to a new life on the Great Plains of America. Can you imagine starting a journey to an unknown country, not knowing what the country would be like, where you would live, or how you would survive? Did you make the right decision to leave in the first place? This first book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotte Jonson as she ponders these questions about her journey and her family future in a new country. Follow charlotte and her family as they travel by ship and rail from their homeland in 1868, to their homestead on the open plains of Kansas.

Planting Dreams: A Swedish Immigrant's Journey to America (Planting Dreams Series)

Contemporary

Popular Kansas author Linda K. Hubalek continues the story of a Swedish immigrant family in Prairie Bloomin', (formerly titled Prarieblomman) the second book in the Butter in the Well series. Homesteading the Kansas prairie in 1869, Prairie Bloomin' features the diary of young Alma Swenson, as she grows up on the Kansas prairie that her parents homesteaded. Hubalek grew up in this same house, researching the land and family that lived on the farm before her.

Prairie Bloomin': The Prairie Blossoms for an Immigrant's Daughter (Butter in the Well Series)

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