Trail of Thread: A Woman’s Westward Journey (Trail of Thread Series Book 1)

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

Taste the dust of the road and feel the wind in your face as you commute with a Kentucky family by wagon train to the new territory of Kansas in 1854.
Find out what it used to be like for the thousands of families who made the cross-country journey into the unknown.

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 on a regular basis events on the trail, and the task of caring for her family. Stories of humor and despair, in conjunction with her ongoing remarks about camping, cooking, and quilting on the wagon trail make you are feeling as if you pulled up stakes and are traveling with the Pieratt’s, too.

But hints of the brewing trouble ahead plagued them along the way as people questions their motive for settling in the new territory. If they are from the South, why don’t they have slaves with them? Would the Pieratt’s vote for or against legal slavery in the new state? Though Deborah does not understand it, her letters show how this travel affected her family for generations to come.

This series is based on writer Linda K. Hubalek’s ancestors that traveled from Kentucky to Kansas in 1854. Twelve old quilt patterns are mentioned in the letters, and the sketched designs are at the back of the book for reference.

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