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.

While doing the research for the Butter in the Well series, the author found old recipes and home remedies along with the family and community histories. The recipes had been handwritten in old ledger books, on scraps of paper, in margins of old cookbooks, and forever etched in the memories of the pioneer's children Hubalek interviewed. As a result, Egg Gravy is a collection of recipes the pioneer women used during their homesteading days. Most of the recipes can be traced back to the original women that homesteaded the real-life setting of Butter in the Well.

In this fourth book of the Butter in the Well series, Kajsa Svensson Runeberg, now 75, looks back at the changes she has experienced 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.The author, Linda K. Hubalek, grew up on the farm that this main charactor homesteaded in 1868.

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.

Follow the widowed Margaret Ralston Kennedy in this second book of the Trail of Thread series, as she travels with eight of her 13 children from Ohio to the Territory of Kansas in 1855.

"Stitch of Courage," the third book in the Trail of Thread series, tells the story of the orphaned Maggie Kennedy, who follows her brothers to Kansas in the late 1850s and faces the demons of the Civil War.

This third book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Charlotta Johnson, as she recalls the events that shaped her family's destiny on the Kansas prairie. A mixture of fact and fiction about the author's great great grandmother, this book follows the first and second books, Planting Dreams, and Cultivating Hope. Author Linda K. Hubalek, has also written the Butter in the Well, and the Trail of Thread, book series about Kansas pioneers.

This second book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotts Johnson as she and her husband build a farmstead on the Kansas prairie. This family faced countless challenges as they homesteaded on Americas Grat Plains during the 1800s. Years of hard work develop the land and improve the quality of life for her family-but not without a price.

Hubalek offers a fictionalized account of Charlotta Johnson's journey from Sweden to Kansas in 1868.

Hubalek continues the story of a Swedish immigrant family in Prarieblomman, Kansas, in the second book in the Butter in the Well series. The series is based on the diary of Alma Swenson, as she grows up on the prairie that her parents homesteaded.