Customer Reviews

Butter in the Well: A Scandinavian Woman's Tale of Life on the Prairie (Butter in the Well Series)

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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.

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.

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.

I am a fan of prairie life and so when I came upon this series of books I was so excited! I love the Laura Ingalls Wilder books and I am partially Swedish myself and so far I am enjoying this a great deal. Hard to put down.
I am a new fan :)