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Anna's Journey is a true story of two dozen immigrants who left behind the security of their homes in Sweden and became in 1848 the first pioneers in the untamed frontier of central Texas. Andrew, one of Anna Palm's six sons, narrates their family's tale of hardship, tragedy, romance, and war. Why did they leave Sweden? Who would survive the four-month long trip across the Atlantic? Where should they settle? How did they adjust to the dangers of Comanches, the issue of slavery, the approach of secession and Civil War, and the harsh Texas weather? This family is representative of thousands of...

A hen that came to Holy Communion, a church built from the remains of a burned-down capitol, six orphaned girls adopted after worship, a tornado that lifted one church, a hurricane that destroyed another. These are among the many unexpected accounts that fill the pages of the history of the first churches established in Texas by Swedish immigrants. From 1870 through 1906, a dozen congregations emerged on the Texas prairies and coastlines. Haverlah has gathered the facts--some stranger than fiction--about these historic churches and their pioneer pastors into one book. Included as background...