Lost and Found or Three Months with the Wild Indians:: A Brief Sketch of the Life of Ole T. Nystel, Embracing His Experience While in Captivity to the Comanches
"Carries scars of their arrows in his legs and of their bowie knives in his upper body, carries the memory of 3 months spent as a captive of the Comanches." - The Waco News-Tribune, 1928
"Interesting and revealing...they knew the difference between the people of Kansas and Texas...violence begot violence, and good treatment relative order." -Encyclopedia of Frontier (1991)
"Nystel was injured and captured by Comanches raiding in the vicinity of Bosque County." - Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy (2017)
"Nystel spent nearly 3 months with the Comances in 1867." -Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier (2007)
"Ole Nystel's account was typical of the pain inflicted by captors." -Chronicles of Oklahoma (1994)
"Ole Nystel was taken captive. He was held by the Indians for 3 months and bartered to a keeper of a Kansas trading post." - A History of Bosque County, Texas (1954)
The stories of those pioneers who have survived captivity among tribes during hostile outbreaks along Texas frontier settlements are full of harrowing interest. Of particular interest is that told by Ole Tergerson Nystel in his 1888 narrative, "Lost and Found or Three Months with the Wild Indians."
In describing the moment of his capture, Nystel relates:
"I heard a noise, and on looking up I saw two Indians, made hideous with war paint. At about the same time they saw me, and giving a few blood-curdling yells, started towards me. It appeared to my excited imagination that they were devils who had come for me and really thought I could see great streams of fire issuing from their mouths. I started to run, and had got about forty yards when an arrow pierced my right leg..."
Back at camp, Nystel would experience some rough treatment at the hands of his captors:
"They would kick and knock me about just for pastime it seemed, whip my bare back until it was perfectly bloody, with frequent repetitions fire their pistols held so close to my head that the caps and powder would fly in my face, producing powder burns and bruises, until I was very much disfigured...."
In narrating his first attempt at escape, Nystel writes:
"My fingers became so cold and numb that I could scarcely use them. I finally grew desperate and jumped up from my work, feeling that I could dig no longer, even if I was killed. At this the Indian knocked me into the water, I then arose and gave him such a blow that he fell to the ground, I started to run. The Indian jumped to his feet and started after me, but soon found that I was too fast for him, so he got a pony..."
Nystel then describes a miraculous encounter with God that he experienced:
"While here surrounded by them I fell upon my knees and prayed to God that if it was His will I might be free, but if not that I might have a saved soul. A shadow seemed to pass over me and a voice, just as audible as any I ever heard in my life said to me: 'Be in peace, you shall be free.' Immediately peace and quietude came to my heart, and all my fears and anxieties vanished. From that time I never despaired of my final escape...."
In later looking back on his experiences as a captive, Nystel reflects "it was not until the eighth day out with the Indians that I found relief to my soul, when the heavy burden of sin was removed, and the fear of the Indians vanished, as described. From this time forward I had no fear and was perfectly happy—happy because I had the favor of God."
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"Interesting and revealing...they knew the difference between the people of Kansas and Texas...violence begot violence, and good treatment relative order." -Encyclopedia of Frontier (1991)
"Nystel was injured and captured by Comanches raiding in the vicinity of Bosque County." - Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy (2017)
"Nystel spent nearly 3 months with the Comances in 1867." -Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier (2007)
"Ole Nystel's account was typical of the pain inflicted by captors." -Chronicles of Oklahoma (1994)
"Ole Nystel was taken captive. He was held by the Indians for 3 months and bartered to a keeper of a Kansas trading post." - A History of Bosque County, Texas (1954)
The stories of those pioneers who have survived captivity among tribes during hostile outbreaks along Texas frontier settlements are full of harrowing interest. Of particular interest is that told by Ole Tergerson Nystel in his 1888 narrative, "Lost and Found or Three Months with the Wild Indians."
In describing the moment of his capture, Nystel relates:
"I heard a noise, and on looking up I saw two Indians, made hideous with war paint. At about the same time they saw me, and giving a few blood-curdling yells, started towards me. It appeared to my excited imagination that they were devils who had come for me and really thought I could see great streams of fire issuing from their mouths. I started to run, and had got about forty yards when an arrow pierced my right leg..."
Back at camp, Nystel would experience some rough treatment at the hands of his captors:
"They would kick and knock me about just for pastime it seemed, whip my bare back until it was perfectly bloody, with frequent repetitions fire their pistols held so close to my head that the caps and powder would fly in my face, producing powder burns and bruises, until I was very much disfigured...."
In narrating his first attempt at escape, Nystel writes:
"My fingers became so cold and numb that I could scarcely use them. I finally grew desperate and jumped up from my work, feeling that I could dig no longer, even if I was killed. At this the Indian knocked me into the water, I then arose and gave him such a blow that he fell to the ground, I started to run. The Indian jumped to his feet and started after me, but soon found that I was too fast for him, so he got a pony..."
Nystel then describes a miraculous encounter with God that he experienced:
"While here surrounded by them I fell upon my knees and prayed to God that if it was His will I might be free, but if not that I might have a saved soul. A shadow seemed to pass over me and a voice, just as audible as any I ever heard in my life said to me: 'Be in peace, you shall be free.' Immediately peace and quietude came to my heart, and all my fears and anxieties vanished. From that time I never despaired of my final escape...."
In later looking back on his experiences as a captive, Nystel reflects "it was not until the eighth day out with the Indians that I found relief to my soul, when the heavy burden of sin was removed, and the fear of the Indians vanished, as described. From this time forward I had no fear and was perfectly happy—happy because I had the favor of God."
Lost and Found or Three Months with the Wild Indians:: A Brief Sketch of the Life of Ole T. Nystel, Embracing His Experience While in Captivity to the Comanches
"Carries scars of their arrows in his legs and of their bowie knives in his upper body, carries the memory of 3 months spent as a captive of the Comanches." - The Waco News-Tribune, 1928
"Interesting and revealing...they knew the difference between the people of Kansas and Texas...violence begot violence, and good treatment relative order." -Encyclopedia of Frontier (1991)
"Nystel was injured and captured by Comanches raiding in the vicinity of Bosque County." - Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy (2017)
"Nystel spent nearly 3 months with the Comances in 1867." -Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier (2007)
"Ole Nystel's account was typical of the pain inflicted by captors." -Chronicles of Oklahoma (1994)
"Ole Nystel was taken captive. He was held by the Indians for 3 months and bartered to a keeper of a Kansas trading post." - A History of Bosque County, Texas (1954)
The stories of those pioneers who have survived captivity among tribes during hostile outbreaks along Texas frontier settlements are full of harrowing interest. Of particular interest is that told by Ole Tergerson Nystel in his 1888 narrative, "Lost and Found or Three Months with the Wild Indians."
In describing the moment of his capture, Nystel relates:
"I heard a noise, and on looking up I saw two Indians, made hideous with war paint. At about the same time they saw me, and giving a few blood-curdling yells, started towards me. It appeared to my excited imagination that they were devils who had come for me and really thought I could see great streams of fire issuing from their mouths. I started to run, and had got about forty yards when an arrow pierced my right leg..."
Back at camp, Nystel would experience some rough treatment at the hands of his captors:
"They would kick and knock me about just for pastime it seemed, whip my bare back until it was perfectly bloody, with frequent repetitions fire their pistols held so close to my head that the caps and powder would fly in my face, producing powder burns and bruises, until I was very much disfigured...."
In narrating his first attempt at escape, Nystel writes:
"My fingers became so cold and numb that I could scarcely use them. I finally grew desperate and jumped up from my work, feeling that I could dig no longer, even if I was killed. At this the Indian knocked me into the water, I then arose and gave him such a blow that he fell to the ground, I started to run. The Indian jumped to his feet and started after me, but soon found that I was too fast for him, so he got a pony..."
Nystel then describes a miraculous encounter with God that he experienced:
"While here surrounded by them I fell upon my knees and prayed to God that if it was His will I might be free, but if not that I might have a saved soul. A shadow seemed to pass over me and a voice, just as audible as any I ever heard in my life said to me: 'Be in peace, you shall be free.' Immediately peace and quietude came to my heart, and all my fears and anxieties vanished. From that time I never despaired of my final escape...."
In later looking back on his experiences as a captive, Nystel reflects "it was not until the eighth day out with the Indians that I found relief to my soul, when the heavy burden of sin was removed, and the fear of the Indians vanished, as described. From this time forward I had no fear and was perfectly happy—happy because I had the favor of God."
"Interesting and revealing...they knew the difference between the people of Kansas and Texas...violence begot violence, and good treatment relative order." -Encyclopedia of Frontier (1991)
"Nystel was injured and captured by Comanches raiding in the vicinity of Bosque County." - Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy (2017)
"Nystel spent nearly 3 months with the Comances in 1867." -Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier (2007)
"Ole Nystel's account was typical of the pain inflicted by captors." -Chronicles of Oklahoma (1994)
"Ole Nystel was taken captive. He was held by the Indians for 3 months and bartered to a keeper of a Kansas trading post." - A History of Bosque County, Texas (1954)
The stories of those pioneers who have survived captivity among tribes during hostile outbreaks along Texas frontier settlements are full of harrowing interest. Of particular interest is that told by Ole Tergerson Nystel in his 1888 narrative, "Lost and Found or Three Months with the Wild Indians."
In describing the moment of his capture, Nystel relates:
"I heard a noise, and on looking up I saw two Indians, made hideous with war paint. At about the same time they saw me, and giving a few blood-curdling yells, started towards me. It appeared to my excited imagination that they were devils who had come for me and really thought I could see great streams of fire issuing from their mouths. I started to run, and had got about forty yards when an arrow pierced my right leg..."
Back at camp, Nystel would experience some rough treatment at the hands of his captors:
"They would kick and knock me about just for pastime it seemed, whip my bare back until it was perfectly bloody, with frequent repetitions fire their pistols held so close to my head that the caps and powder would fly in my face, producing powder burns and bruises, until I was very much disfigured...."
In narrating his first attempt at escape, Nystel writes:
"My fingers became so cold and numb that I could scarcely use them. I finally grew desperate and jumped up from my work, feeling that I could dig no longer, even if I was killed. At this the Indian knocked me into the water, I then arose and gave him such a blow that he fell to the ground, I started to run. The Indian jumped to his feet and started after me, but soon found that I was too fast for him, so he got a pony..."
Nystel then describes a miraculous encounter with God that he experienced:
"While here surrounded by them I fell upon my knees and prayed to God that if it was His will I might be free, but if not that I might have a saved soul. A shadow seemed to pass over me and a voice, just as audible as any I ever heard in my life said to me: 'Be in peace, you shall be free.' Immediately peace and quietude came to my heart, and all my fears and anxieties vanished. From that time I never despaired of my final escape...."
In later looking back on his experiences as a captive, Nystel reflects "it was not until the eighth day out with the Indians that I found relief to my soul, when the heavy burden of sin was removed, and the fear of the Indians vanished, as described. From this time forward I had no fear and was perfectly happy—happy because I had the favor of God."
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| BN ID: | 2940186349815 |
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| Publisher: | Far West Travel Adventure |
| Publication date: | 07/17/2022 |
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