Butterfield Books

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This first book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotts Johnson as she ponders the decision to move to America for her family's future. This books cronicles their journey...

Subtitle: The Prairie Blossoms for an Immigrant's Daughter, 1889-1900. Butter in the Well Series, Book 2. Popular Kansas author Linda K. Hubalek continues the story of a Swedish immigrant family in...

Popular Kansas author Linda K. Hubalek continues the story of a Swedish immigrant family in Prarieblomman, the second book in the Butter in the Well series. Homesteading the Kansas prairie in 1869,...

Sititch 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. In letters to her sister in...

Follow the widowed Margaret Ralston Kennedy 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. Told...

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...