Part family memoir and part history of Swedes coming to America, this genealogical study focuses on the branch of the Carlson family that moved to Texas from Sweden in the nineteenth century. It includes histories of the Engblom and Westling families as they intermarry with the Carlsons. The book contains many nineteenth and twentieth-century photographs of members of all three families as well as color photographs taken more recently. It also includes anecdotes and descriptions of the characters of numerous members of the families.