Norge i Texas (Norwegians in Texas)


Books and Articles

If the following books and articles have links, they are available online. Most are free, but those marked with a $ will charge a fee.

Midnight Sun to Lone Star: Norwegians in Texas [on PoTH], by Richard L. Hooverson. Stirpes, Volume 30, Number 1 (March 1990), Texas State Genealogical Society.

Norge i Texas, by Odd Magnar Syversen and Hon. Derwood Johnson. Stange: Stange Historielag [Norwegian], 1982. ISBN 82-7104-097-9.

Norwegian Migration to America (2 vols.), 1931 by Theodore Christian Blegen. New York: Haskell House, 1969.

Norwegian Migration to Texas: A Historic Resume with Four "America Letters" [on PoTH], by Lyder L. Unstad. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 43 (July 1939 - April, 1940), Texas State Historical Association, Walter P. Webb, editor, 1940.

Norwegian Settlements in Bosque County, by Oris Emerald Pierson (M.A. thesis). Austin TX: The University of Texas, 1947.

Norwegian settlements in Bosque County, Texas (on PoTH), by Oris Emerald Pierson. Clifton TX: Bosque Memorial Museum, 1979. LC: F392.B6 P531979

Norwegian Soldiers in the Confederate Forces [$ on Muse], by C.A. Clausen and Derwood Johnson . Norwegian-American Studies (v.25, p.105), Northfield MN: The North American Historical Association, 1972.

The Norwegian Texans (1st ed.) [on UTSA]. San Antonio TX: The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, 1971.

The Norwegian Texans (2nd ed.). San Antonio TX: The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, 1985. LC: F395.S2 N67 1985

Reiersen's Texas [$ on Muse], translated and edited by Derwood Johnson. Norwegian-American Studies (v.21, p.252), Northfield MN: The North American Historical Association, 1962.

Johan Reinert Reierson, by Rasmus Björn Anderson. The First Chapter of Norwegian Immigration (1821-1840): Its Causes and Results, 1895.

Elise Wærenskjold, by Rasmus Björn Anderson. The First Chapter of Norwegian Immigration (1821-1840): Its Causes and Results, 1895.

Ole Canuteson, by Rasmus Björn Anderson. The First Chapter of Norwegian Immigration (1821-1840): Its Causes and Results, 1895.



Online Databases

Genealogy Projects and Information

Some Bosque County Links

Norwegian Society of Texas

Sons of Norway