Butter in the Well

Butter in the Well
A Scandinavian Woman’s Tale of Life on the Prairie, 1868-1888
Book 1 in the Butter in the Well Series

Swedish immigrant Kajsa Svensson Runeberg fights to survive and build a homestead on the Kansas prairie as she and her family faces the trials of weather, disease, accidents, and loneliness.

This historical fiction, written in...

Prairie Bloomin’
The Prairie Blossoms for an Immigrant’s Daughter, 1889-1900
Book 2 in the Butter in the Well Series

Popular Kansas author Linda K. Hubalek continues the story of a Swedish immigrant family featured in the Butter in the Well series with the second book Prairie Bloomin’ (formerly titled Prärieblomman).
Prairie Bloomin’ features the...

Harvesting Faith
The Final Tale of Life on the Prairie
Book 3 in the Planting Dreams Series

The inevitable happens- time moves on and we grow older. Instead of our own little children surrounding us, grandchildren take their place. Each new generation lives in a new age of technology, not realizing the changes the generations before theirs has...

Egg Gravy
Authentic Recipes from the Butter in the Well Series

Faded recipes. We’ve all come across them from time to time in our lives, either handwritten by ourselves or by another person in our family, or as old, yellowed newspaper clippings stuck in a cookbook of sorts.

While doing research for the Butter in the Well series, the author...