Trail of Thread

Trail of Thread
A Woman’s Westward Journey, Historical Letters 1854-1855
Book 1 in the Trail of Thread Series

Taste the dust of the road and feel the wind in your face as you travel with a Kentucky family by wagon train to the new territory of Kansas in 1854.

Find out what it was like for the thousands of families who made the cross-country...

Thimble of Soil
A Woman’s Quest for Land, Historical Letters 1854-1860
Book 2 in the Trail of Thread Series

Experience the terror of the fighting and the determination to endure as you stake a claim alongside the women caught in the bloody conflicts of Kansas in the 1850’s.

Follow the widowed Margaret Ralston Kennedy (a relative of the author)...

Stitch of Courage
A Woman’s Fight of Freedom, Historical Letters 1861-1865
Book 3 in the Trail of Thread Series

Stitch 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.

The niece of Margaret Ralston Kennedy, the main character in...

Strong Women contains all three books in the Trail of Thread series.

Trail of Thread: Taste the dust of the road and feel the wind in your face as you travel with a Kentucky family by wagon train to the new territory of Kansas in 1854.

Find out what it was like for the thousands of families who made the cross-country journey into the unknown. This...