Subtitle: A Swedish Immigrant's Journey to America, 1868-1869 Planting Dreams Series, Book 1 Drought has scorched the farmland of Sweden and there is no harvest to feed families or livestock. Taxes are due and there is little money to pay them. But there is a ship sailing for America, where the government is giving land to anyone who wants to claim a homestead. So begins the migration out of Sweden to a new life on the Great Plains of America. Can you imagine starting a journey to an unknown country, not knowing what the country would be like, where you would live, or how you would survive? Did you make the right decision to leave in the first place? This first book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotte Jonson as she ponders these questions about her journey and her family’ future in a new country. Follow charlotte and her family as they travel by ship and rail from their homeland in 1868, to their homestead on the open plains of Kansas.

Can you imagine being isolated in the middle of treeless grassland with only a dirt roof over your head? Having to feed your children with whatever wild plants or animals you could find living on the prairie? Sweating to plow the sod, plant the seed, cultivate the crop-only to lose it all by a hailstorm right before you harvest it? This second book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotta Johnson as she and her husband build a farmstead on the Kansas prairie. This family faced countless challenges as they homestead on America's Great Plains during the 1800s. Years of hard work develop the land and improve the quality of life for her family - but not with a price.

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.