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1863 and had migrated on foot through Missouri and
Kansas, arriving at Salina on January 18, 1864. The
same year he settled on a homestead belonging to
another man south of Salina, who mysteriously
disappeared. Here he was living in a hollow tree when the
next Swedish settler, G. A. Johnson, came to Salina in
1867, the year the Kansas Pacific Railway, now the
Union Pacific, reached that city. The same year Peter
Johnson, who had also served in the Civil War, and
Andrew Johnson, a nephew of Carlgren, arrived in this
community.[1]
To Lindsborg, the Mecca of the Swedish people of
Kansas, the first pioneers came in 1866. In April of
that year nine young men who had lived for about a
year at Junction City, near Fort Riley, decided to go
farther west in search of land. Forsaking their original
plan to settle in the Solomon Valley, they proceeded to
Salina, which at that time consisted of two log cabins,
one frame house, and a saw-mill. Continuing southward
through grass six feet tall they came to the present
site of Lindsborg and selected their land. Among these
were Gustaf Johnson, L. Huldtquist, P. Spångberg, A. G.
Lind, Erick Också, H. Nordlund, Ahlquist and Karl
Johnson. Returning to Junction City, where the
government land office was located, they persuaded eight
additional young Swedes to join them, and on May 1,
1866, these seventeen young men filed their claims for
a quarter-section each in the vicinity of the present
Lindsborg. They soon returned to their claims and built
their first dugouts where this center of music and
Swedish culture now stands. In the fall of 1866 and in
the year following they were joined by many other
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