Translated from 'Nordmændene i Amerika' by Martin Ulvestad. 1907. Hamilton County The Bosque settlement has extended into Hamilton Co. also but the settlement's history is already given so I will confine myself to what a countryman out there had to undergo. Ole Torgersen Nystøl was carried off by the Indians in 1867, but not just that, they mistreated him so badly that when he came back to civilisation after three months capture, he was more dead than alive. For example, his head was almost completely covered with wounds. His worst treatment came, naturally, when they could not get him to do things they ordered, and they were often things that he could not bring himself to do. A negro, who they had also captured in their raids, was killed in a frightful manner right before Nystøl's eyes. At night when they wished to sleep in their tents, they kept the poor Norwegian tied up outside - almost naked. His main articles of clothing they had taken for their own use - some of them. And this was up in the mountains - in the cold season. It was also poor when it came to food. Nystøl ( who is a religious and credible man) tells that in the first nine days of his capture they gave him almost nothing to eat but when they saw that they could not keep him alive that way, they gave him some of whatever they had. He had to work almost continuously, carrying water, chopping wood and finding food for them and their horses were his daily duties. They were not able, however, to get him to marry any of their daughters even though they gave him many to choose from and even though they were very willing to have a white man. One of them was even so aggressive that he had to hit her so he could be left in peace. When he finally got the opportunity to get away, he had accompanied them over large stretches of Texas, Kansas and Indian Territory. A Norwegian Lutheran congregation was established in 1903 with Pastor G. G. Odegaard of The Norwegian Synod as its first priest. There was no Norwegian church in this county when the report for this work was received.