The primordial home of the "Chinquapin Eaters".....the vast colonial stage where Louisiana's famed cavalier Louis Juchereau de St. Denis played his memorable role .....the lively fringe Creole society with its quaint provincial air.....and the notorious gateway to America's great Southwest. Amidst the brutality, intrigue, and romance of this frontier, Latins and Anglos, Indians and Africans met and blended their cultures for more than two centuries.
Gay B. Mills and Elizabeth Shown Mills
1978, 6x9, cloth, index, 142 pp
101-M0001
