Trail of Thread Book Series

This autographed book series is about Linda Hubalek’s mother’s ancestors. The John and Deborah Pieratt family traveled from Kentucky, and the Margaret Ralston Kennedy family from Ohio, to homestead beside each other in Kansas. Their children, from the North and the South, marry during the Civil War. These books are written in letter form, covering the years 1854 to 1865.
Twelve quilt patterns are featured in each book of this series.

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

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

Follow the widowed Margaret Ralston Kennedy as she travels with eight of her thirteen children from Ohio to the territory of Kansas in 1855. Thousands of Americans headed west in the decade before the Civil War, but those who settled in Kansas suffered through the frequent clashes between proslavery and free-state fractions that gripped the territory.

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Stitch of Courage: A Woman’s Fight for Freedom
Book 3, Historical Letters 1861-1865

Face the uncertainty, doubt and danger faced by the pioneer women of Kansas as they defend their homes and pray for their men during the Civil War.

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 neice of Margaret Ralston Kennedy, of Thimble of Soil, Maggie married the son of Deborah Pieratt, who story was told in Trail of Thread.