Read the account of Kajsa Svensson Runeberg, an emigrant wife who recounts, through her diary, how she and her family built up a farm on the unsettled Kansas prairie. This historical fiction is based on the Swedish woman who homesteaded the author's childhood home.
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...could well be the most endearing 'first settler' account ever told. Once a reader starts the book, they are compelled to keep reading to see what will happen next on the isolated prairie homestead. Not to be missed! --Capper's Family Bookstore
Hubalek has skillfully blended fiction and historic fact to recreate the life of Swedish homestead, Kajsa Svensson Runeberg. A story of emigrant dreams and pioneer struggles, it is an altogether rewarding story and one that deserves to be told. --Kansas State Historical Society
Hubalek has skillfully blended fiction and historic fact to recreate the life of Swedish homestead, Kajsa Svensson Runeberg. A story of emigrant dreams and pioneer struggles, it is an altogether rewarding story and one that deserves to be told. --Kansas State Historical Society
About the Author
In sixth grade we had to write a paper on what we wanted to do when we grew up. My mom had kept it and I found this paper while cleaning through my closet during my college days. According to my dreams back then, I wanted to be a farmer, but my last line was -but alas, girls can't be farmers. Well, I got my Bachelors Degree in Agriculture/Horticulture from Kansas State University, did agronomy research for years before starting a wholesale horticulture business. My company, Prairie Flower Creations, grew and dried flowers, ornamental corn, and mini pumpkins for the florist trade. In 1990 I was featured in Country Woman Magazine, but at the same time, my husband's job was transferred to California. I sold my business and tried to cope, growing flowers and pumpkins in five-gallon buckets on our cement lawn. I started writing about the family and farmland I was homesick for and started a new career, writing about women ancestors who had moved to the new state of Kansas and farmed its land. We eventually moved back to Kansas, bought land next to my family, raised buffalo, and I have a garden again. So not only have I fulfilled my dream to be a farmer, I've written about past and present women that have also tilled the prairie land of Kansas. Please read and enjoy my book series which are about the family that homestead our family farm, and my ancestors that homesteaded in Kansas in the 1800s. Considered historical fiction, these quality paperback books are age appropriate for everyone from age 9 to 99. Book, quilt, and Scandinavian gift shops sell them (or ask your local store to stock them for you) and schools use them in class studies to portray early pioneer and Kansas history. My writing time most days is spent on the computer with marketing my businesses, and working on the next book series.
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Linda Hubalek majored in agriculture in college, and featured in Country Woman Magazine about her wildflower business when her husband's job transferred them to California. She then started writing about the Kanas prairie she was homesick for and started her writing career.
Linda's first book, BUTTER IN THE WELL, written as diary entries, is about the Swedish immigrant that homesteaded her family farm. Readers wanted to know what happened to the family, so she continued the story with PRÄRIEBLOMMAN, EGG GRAVY (a pioneer cookbook), and LOOKING BACK.
Her next historical fiction series features pioneer women as they experience the Civil War firsthand. TRAIL OF THREAD, THIMBLE OF SOIL, and STITCH OF COURAGE, written in the form of letters, has a quilt theme because of a quilt handed down in Linda Hubalek's family.
PLANTING DREAMS, CULTIVATING HOPE, and HARVESTING FAITH tells her ancestor's story that changed their family history forever when they homesteaded on the unforgiving Kansas prairie.
Linda Hubalek and her husband eventually moved back home to Kansas, and she continues to research and write about pioneer women that made Kansas their home. The KANSAS QUILTER will be her next book series.
www.LindaHubalek.com
www.Facebook.com/lindahubalekbooks
Linda's first book, BUTTER IN THE WELL, written as diary entries, is about the Swedish immigrant that homesteaded her family farm. Readers wanted to know what happened to the family, so she continued the story with PRÄRIEBLOMMAN, EGG GRAVY (a pioneer cookbook), and LOOKING BACK.
Her next historical fiction series features pioneer women as they experience the Civil War firsthand. TRAIL OF THREAD, THIMBLE OF SOIL, and STITCH OF COURAGE, written in the form of letters, has a quilt theme because of a quilt handed down in Linda Hubalek's family.
PLANTING DREAMS, CULTIVATING HOPE, and HARVESTING FAITH tells her ancestor's story that changed their family history forever when they homesteaded on the unforgiving Kansas prairie.
Linda Hubalek and her husband eventually moved back home to Kansas, and she continues to research and write about pioneer women that made Kansas their home. The KANSAS QUILTER will be her next book series.
www.LindaHubalek.com
www.Facebook.com/lindahubalekbooks
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
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Ranks as high as Little House on the Prairie books!,
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This review is from: Butter in the Well: A Scandinavian Woman's Tale of Life on the Prairie (Butter in the Well Series) (Paperback)
One of the best "first settler" accounts I've ever read! Hubalek's story of Swedish immigrant, Kajsa, who settled in Central Kansas was riveting. I couldn't put it down until I had read the whole book. Stories of rattlesnakes coming through the dugout ceiling, prairie fires, the joys of newborn babies and the heartaches of losing loved ones.... Reading Hubalek's book shows that starting life as a homesteader was very tough, and the story was so real that I was working the sod right with her. Be sure to read the whole 4-book series, and her other two series as well.
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Felt like a biography!,
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I love good biography and though this apparently is fictionalized, it felt real. My family homesteaded in Oklahoma and I had a sense of knowing more about what my grandmother's life was like back then than ever before. Very readable, I went through this in one day and am ready to continue the series.
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I LOVE GENEALOGY AND THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING BOOK ABOUT A JOURNAL OF A LADY THAT SPANS LIKE 30 YEARS UNTIL THE 1880'S. I ORDERED IT AND IT WAS HERE IN LESS THAN A WEEK.
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