I Take My Pen in Hand: 19th Century Nelson Correspondence

George and Margaret Nelson, (aka, Jorgen Nielsen, 1821-1871, and Margrethe Pedersdatter 1823-1882) and two of their children immigrated to the United States in 1853. This growing family eventually settled in Gentry County, Missouri. Most of the grown children ventured further west, two to California; two, first, to Colorado; and another to Montana. The correspondence between them over the next thirty years that was preserved is reproduced in this volume, offering a wonderful panorama of what was going on in the family.