]]> Wærenskjold, Elise Amalie Tvede, 1815-1895]]> Texas]]> 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).

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