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AbstractNotes on Norwegian Settlements in Texas telling of pioneer life, frontier hospitality, relations with the American Indians, church and school life.Contents"Notes on Norwegian Settlements in Texas," undated Arneson emigrated in 1872 from the…

A Travel Letter from Texas, 1852, by an emigrant from Romedal who settled at Four Mile Prairie. Translated by Alvon Nelson with an introduction by Kaare Sveen. The Norwegian original was published in "Gamalt fraa Stange og Romedal" (1975, pp. 10-19).…

From the Knut Gjerset papers on women and Norwegian American Encyclopedia. Letters and other writings regarding Wilhelm and Elise Waerenskjold. A pastor's daughter, Elise lead a party emigrating to Texas between October 1846 and March 1847. The…

Erindringer om det første norske udvandrings-selskabs reise til Texas og fra de første 6 aar af nybyggerlivet der, is an account of Hastvedt's trip to Texas in 1846, of Johan Reinert Reiersen's expedition in 1843-1844, and of early frontier life…

Copies of papers relating to the history of the Anders L. Mordt Land Company, Guymon, Oklahoma. Mordt was a promoter of Oslo, a Norwegian settlement in Hansford County, Texas (Texas Panhandle) in the early 1900s. He advertised extensively in the…

Correspondence, articles, reports, drawings, diaries, log-books, notebooks, clippings, and pamphlets of a Norwegian-born machinist and engineer. The correspondence deals with such topics as problems in engineering, sea disasters, strikes and labor…

Correspondence, legal documents, clippings, pictures, and a biography concerning a Norwegian-American pathfinder. The papers include copies and transcripts of Peerson letters, an emigration paper, 1838 indenture, LaSalle Co.,; petition & private act…

A New Oslo on the Plains; Anders L. Mordt Land Company and Norwegian Migration to the Texas Panhandle, reprint of an article published in the "Panhandle-Plains Historical Review," Canyon, Texas, 1976. "A Diamond Jubilee; Seventy-Five Years of…

Biography/History:  Johan Reinert Reierson (1810-1864) was born in Vestre Moland, Aust-Agder, Norway. He was a Norwegian-American writer, author and publisher as well as an early Texas pioneer and emigration activist. Reierson had been sponsored in…

Copy of a letter and a typescript translation of another, both from Four Mile Prairie, Texas, by a cobbler, describing geography, government, settlements, health, farming, Indians, church, and school. Also a 12-page typescript biography of Smeland by…