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 Waerenskjolds married in 1848, settling at Four Mile Prairie. Her letters and other writings serve as a primary source of information about the Norwegians who settled in Texas.
Also includes:
- Photocopies of letters from Elise Waerenskjold to Oscar Reierson, 1883, 1890
- Books edited by Charles H. Russell
- Light on the Prairie: New Writings of Elise Wærenskjold (Houston, TX: Shining Brightly Books, 2010)
- Undaunted A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2006).