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Lost and Found or Three Months with the Wild Indians

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Lost and Found or Three Months with the Wild Indians
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"A Brief Sketch of the Life of Ole T. Nystel, Embracing His Experience While in Captivity to the Comanches, and Subsequent Liberation from Them. Reflections and Religious Experience". written by Ole Tergerson Nystel (1853-1930). Wilmans Bros. Book, Commercial and Art Printers, Dallas, Texas, 1888. Original blue soft cover, black type, light wear to fragile wrappers. Slight browning, small tear in testimonial leaf. (8" x 5") 26 pp. Paper attached to front of pamphlet with statements to corroborate Nystel's story.



Ole first married Syrine Hoel about 1872. They had one child, Signe Amelia Nystel, before Syrine's untimely death in 1877. He then married Annie Olena Anderson on 6 Mar 1879 in Bosque County, Texas. Together, they had 10 children, five males and five females. (Furnished by Bill Plies) Ole T. Nystel moved with his family to the Norse community in Bosque County, Texas in 1866, little knowing that he would figure in a historic happening a year or so later. As a fourteen-year-old boy, he was traveling with a neighbor, Karl Questad (himself a historically important figure in the area), to cut cedar at the nearby mountain known as Key Mountain. These two were attacked by a band of Comanche braves, and both were wounded. Questad escaped, but Nystel was captured and held by the Indians for some three months. For the first few weks of his captivity he was subjected to numerous indignities and abuses, but was finally accepted into the tribe after having displayed courage during a thunderstorm. After several attempts at escape, the Indians felt it best to be shed of him and traded him for $250 in goods at a post on the Arkansas River. Nystel made his way back home to Texas, indignant that Indians would be traded with in Kansas, only to return and maraud in Texas.

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State: Texas,
Date: 1888

FHWAC#: 26424