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"Scattered to the Wind" Dispersal and Wanderings of the Acadians, 1755-1809 by Carl A. Brasseaux - all the extra copies have been sold; and, the Center for Louisiana Studies, Univ. of LA - Lafayette is temporarily out of stock. |
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A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography 2-Vol. Set [Hardcover 8 1/2*11], Glenn R. Conrad (General Editor) - Price: $70.00 A-Z bios of leading figures in Louisiana History, past and present. Published by The Louisiana Historical Association in cooperation with The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana - Lafayette |
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Old Louisiana by Lyle Saxon [Hardback 1929 Collector Edition] - Price: $14.95 Chapter Ten is especially valuable because it is a memoir written in 1840 by Judge Thomas C. Nicholls, son of Edard Church Nicholls, first Civil Commandant and United States Judge of County of Attakapas of his trip in 1805 from Baltimore to New Orleans and a journey through the bayous and lakes to the Attakapas country.
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The History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New York in America by Cadwallader Colden [Softcover] - Price: $14.95 Colonial scholar and political leader, Cadwallader Colden was among the most learned American men of his time, and his history of the Iroquois tribes makes fascinating reading. The author discusses the religion, manners, eustoms, laws and forms of government of the confederacy of tribes composed of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas, and gives accounts of battles, treaties, and trade with these Indians up to 1689. “No collection pretending an interest in Indian or This book Consists of Part I (1727) and Part 11(1747) of The History of the Five Indian Nations, by Cadwallader Colden. The text is reprinted (with few changes other than romanization of much of the italics, omission of beginning quotation marks except at the opening of a quoted sentence or paragraph, and the correction of some obvious typographical errors) from the 1866 reprinting of the 1727 edition of Part l and from the 1747 edition of Part 11. |
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Trail of Tears The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle [424 page softcover] - Price $6.95 | |
The People Called Cajuns: An Introduction to an Ethnohistory by James H. Dormon [Hardcover] - Price: $14.95 | |
Rachel of Old Louisiana by Avery O. Craven [Softcover] - Price: $14.95 Note: Rachel O'Connor was born Rachel Swayze. She was the half-sister of David Weeks who built The Shadows-On-The-Teche and a half, great-grandaunt of Weeks Hall, the last Master of The Shadows . Appendix I of the book has a genealogical chart. Appendix II has a copy of the Inventory in her Succession. Info from back cover Rachel O'Connor was an extraordinary woman. For nearly fifty years (from 1797 to 1846), she lived on a plantation near Bayou Sara in Louisiana's West Feliciana Parish. And for twenty-five of those years, after the death of her husband, she managed the plantation alone. Although they had, as she said, "begun poor," at the time of her death she owned about a thousand acres and seventy-five slaves. Not a biography in the conventional sense, Avery O. Craven's charming little book is rather the story of Rachel and the Louisiana in which she lived. Based largely on several hundred of her letters, it tells of her day-to-day activities, her relationships with slaves and overseers, her successes and failures with crops, as well as her health and legal problems. By focusing on the life of one woman, Craven brings to light the thoughts, emotions, and attitudes of Louisianians (and other southerners) during this period. Rachel of Old Louisiana is a significant addition to the literature on the Old South. |
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West Baton Rouge Families by West Baton Rouge Genealogical Society [Hard-Bound]- Price: $51.50 History of West Baton Rouge Parish and 222 Family Stories. |
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West Baton Rouge Parish Marriage Records 1807-1915 [Spiral-Bound] - Price: $24.95 | |
Dangerous Passage The Santa Fe Trail And The Mexican War by William Y. Chalfant [Hardcover W/D Lib Bk] - Price: $6.95 Includes info on Francois Xavier Aubrey, a French-Canadian - see excerpt from the Texas State Historical Association Online: AUBRY, FRANÇOIS XAVIER (1824–1854). François Xavier Aubry (Aubrey) [1824-1854], explorer and merchant, was born near Maskinongé, Quebec, on December 3, 1824, to Joseph and Magdeleine (Lupien) Aubry. In his teens he went to St. Louis as a merchant clerk. At the outbreak of the Mexican War he borrowed money, purchased wagons, and entered the Santa Fe trade. He became very successful and was noted for his efficiency and reliability. His solo return trips from Santa Fe to St. Louis were accomplished so quickly and accompanied by such dangers that he received much publicity in the nation's press. He kept journals of most of his trips, and these were printed in papers from St. Louis to New York. By 1849 Aubry was one of the leading frontier merchants... |
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Frémont Explorer for a Restless Nation by Fred Egan [Hardcover, W/D lib bk] - Price: $9.95 John Charles Frémont, born Jan. 21, 1813, was the illegitimate son of a French exile and a Virginia aristocrat. He was an explorer, scientist, military governor of California, U.S. Senator, and, first Republican candidate for President. Between 1842-1853, he mapped and described more of the American West than the famous expedition headed by Meriwether & William Clark. |
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The Story of Old Ste. Genevieve by Gregory M. Franzwa - Price: $19.95 An Account of An Old French Town in Upper Louisiana; Its People and Their Homes with 82 Illustrations |
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Mapping Texas and the Gulf Coast The Contributions of Saint-Denis, Oliván and Le Maire by Jack Jackson, Robert S. Weddle and Winston DeVille with a Foreword by Jay Higginbotham [author of Fort Maurepas & Old Mobile] - [NEW - softcover published at $15.00] Price: $7.95 Note: This invaluable book provides the history of the period [1714-1717] as well as the maps. At the time the Saint-Denis maps were made, the Capitol of Colonial Texas was at Los Adaes - current-day Robeline, Louisiana about 14 miles west of Natchitoches. Saint-Denis was the Commandant of Natchitoches who was imprisoned by the Spanish and later married the niece of the Spanish Governor who was at Los Adaes. See List of Maps in the Book which includes the 1718 "Mother Map" of the Gulf Coast by Guillaume Delisle. |
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Memories of the Old Plantation Home & A Creole Family Album by Laura Locoul Gore with Commentary by Norman & Sand Marmillion - Price: $19.95 The Old Plantation Home is the Laura Plantation, located in St. James Parish 54 miles above New Orleans on the right bank of the Mississippi River. See the Preface, Acknowledgements and the Family Tree of Laura Locoul Gore. |
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Napoleon by Earl Ludwig [translated by Eden and Cedar Paul [Hardcover - 706 pages] - Price: $8.95 | |
The Natchez Trace: A Pictorial History by James A. Crutchfield [Softbound] - Price: $10.95 | |
The Barber of Natchez by Edwin Adams Davis and William Ransom Hogan [Softbound] - Price:$10.95 This book published by the LSU Press is an absorbing account of the rise of a slave to freedom, business success, and high community standing in Natchez - all before 1850. In his diary, letters, and business records, the remarkable William Johnson portrays his family life, recreations, and his friendships with people of both races. The book also describes his wanton murder and the trials of the man who shot him. |
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A Place Named ... Desperate!: Edited, with an Introduction by Lawrence L. Hewitt: Price: $7.95 A 22-page booklet of the report prepred by Colonel Benjamin Whitfield Johnson of the 48-day "seige" of Port Hudson, LA during the Civil War. |
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The Plot to Steal Florida - James Madison's Phony War by Joseph Burkholder Smith - Price: $8.95 | |
Special Collector's Item! New Orleans - Official Visitors Guide 2005 - see what Hurricane Katrina Interrupted! - Price: $5.95 |
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Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George W. Cable - Price: $9.95 Compilation of seven unusual, factual accounts of life and history in Louisiana | |
E. J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits - Photographs From The New Orleans Red-Light District, Circa 1912 - Price: $29.95 See KnowLA Encyclopedia of Louisiana article on E.J. Bellocq and the portraits |
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History of Louisiana: The French Dominion by Charles E. Gayarre [ Hardcover 583+ pgs] - Price: $39.50 | |
The History of Louisiana by Francois-Xavier Martin - Price: $54.95 Includes a Memoir of the Author by Judge W.W,Howe to which is appended Annalas of Louisiana from the close of Martin's History, 1815; to the Commencement of the Civil War, 1861 |
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First Land Owners and 1810 Annotated Census of Lafourche Interior Parish, LA [Lafourche & Terrebonne] by Mrs. Audrey B. Westerman - Price: $54.95 | |
1900 U.S. Census Lafourche Parish, LA pub. by TGS - Price: $39.50 | |
Roadside Geology of Louisiana - Price: $14.95 After Hurricane Katrina, the fanlike pile of sand, mud, and silt that formed near a breached levee was unique in the urban environment of New Orleans. Over the 7,500-year history of the modern Mississippi River delta, however, it was just another splay deposit. Author Darwin Spearing explains the geologic forces behind the formation of the delta, shedding light on the human struggle to control the powerful river that breaches its own levees and switches its own deltas. With sections on wetland loss and land subsidence, Roadside Geology of Louisiana is a must-read for understanding the vulnerability of the Mississippi River delta to floods and hurricanes. First published in 1995, Roadside Geology of Louisiana is back in print by popular demand, with several updated sections. The introduction presents an overview of Louisiana's geologic history, and 57 road guides discuss the landforms visible from a car window including sand ridges, natural levees, oxbow lakes, and the Five Islands salt domes. |
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The Majesty of the River Road, Photography by Paul Malone, Text by Lee Malone - Price: $9.95 Master photographer Paul Malone captures the charm and grandeur of palatial homes and other notable structures in nearly 160 full-color photographs, including interior views. Ornate stairways and foyers, elaborate parlors, and spectacular bedrooms complete with period furnishings reflect the prosperous and opulent lifestyle of the antebellum period. The accompanying text by Lee Malone highlights the history of each home and provides an architectural description. |
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Black Cloud - The Great Florida Hurricane of 1928 by Eliot Kleinberg - Price: $9.95 The unnamed hurricane of Sept. 16, 1928 in West Palm Beach, Florida took the lives of 1,836 persons according to the official death toll; however, in the summer of 2003, the National Hurricane Center prepared to change the toll to 2,500, making the storm the second deadliest in American history, behind only the Galveston hurricane of 1900. |
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Encyclopaedia of hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones by David Longshore [372 pages - Hardbound] - Price: $9.95 In this richly detailed encyclopedia, readers will find vivid, scholarly accounts of all major storm systems ever recorded. Over 200 entries cover hurricanes in science, history and culture, and folklore, including how storms have appeared in literature, music, and the visual arts. For many of the storms described, author David Longshore provides maps of their course, detailed chronologies of their progress, photographs of their aftermath, and comments about them from firsthand observers. Topics covered include meteorological terms, biographical data on key figures in the history of hurricane scholarship, geographical terms, and methods of hurricane tracking and data analysis. Other entries cover: meteorological instruments, such as Doppler radar and barometers; named hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones in an A-to-Z format; descriptions of storm activity by region; meteorological terms, such as advection, isobar, and the firefly effect; and the role of animals as harbingers of weather to come. |
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The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History by Colin McEvedy - Price: $7.95 | |
Cane River by Lalita Tademy - Price: $7.95
This historical novel contains Real Genealogy! It has the Derbanne ancestry of the author in Natchitoches, LA |
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Red River - a historical novel by Lalita Tademy [Softcover] - Price: $8.95 Historical novel based upon the events of April 13, 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana called "The Riot of Colfax" - see Wikipedia Article |
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Rising Tide The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry - Price: $15.95 | |
Quebec 1759 the battle that won Canada by Stuart Reid - Price: $9.95
Praeger Ilustrated Military History Series |
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Canada by Rupert O. Matthews - Price: $6.95
Excellent Photos of Canada from Coast to Coast |
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Canada: Library of Nations: Time Life Books - Price: $7.95
Illustrated History - has a great 3-dimensional map on inside cover |
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A History of the Canadian People by J. M. Bumsted [Softbound] - Price: $16.50 | |
Traveling the Trans-Canada From Newfoundland to British Columbia [Harbcover w/dust jacket] - Price: $7.95 This National Geographic Society book by William Howarth and photographed by George F. Mobley is truly excellent with breath-taking photography. The 4,800 mile Trans-Canada is the world's longest national highway. The author and photographer traveled the highway for more than one year. |
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Christopher Columbus by John Stewart Collis - Price:
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Excellent History and map showing the 4 voyages round the Caribbean and Central America. Includes historical information on the Canary Islands |
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Denis-Nicolas Foucault and the New Orleans Rebellion of 1768 by Carl A. Brasseaux [Hardcover - some yellow highlighting] - Price: $45.95 | |
Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know about American History but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - Price: $5.95 |
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Exploring the Great Rivers of North America - Price:
$7.95
National Geographic - Content - Rivers to the Atlantic: St. Lawrence, Susquehanna, James; Rivers to the Gulf: Mississippi, Missouri, Rio Grande; Rivers to the Pacific: Columbia, Sacramento & San Joaquin, Colorado; and, Rivers to the Arctic: Yuukon, Mackenzie |
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Lafayette Man in the Middle by Sabra Holbrook [Hardback - withdrawn library book] - Price$6.95 | |
The Louisiana Purchase - Louisiana Life Series, No. 7 by Carl J. Richard - Price: $9.95 | |
Lewis and Clark: The Maps of Exploration, 1507 - 1814 published
by the University of Virginia Library [Hardcover w/ dust jacket - coffee table quality] - Price: $29.95
In competition for a mostly unclaimed continent, the various Spanish, English, Dutch, French and Portuguese explorers guarded their maps as state secrets, aware that knowledge of the landscape was the key to acquisition - this book shows and explains how language differences and miscommunication with Native Americans, led to the wide-ranging variety and inconsistency that characterize early maps of North America. - To understand the nature of the quest to the Pacific, the University of Virginia Library and the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation have put together an exhibition of maps that were either in the personal library of Thomas Jefferson or were probably known to him. - The collection includes European productions, maps of continental penetration by French and Anglo-American explorers, as well as the map drawn in 1810 by William Clark as a result of the expedition. - Though technically inaccurate and consciously incomplete, the early maps reveal the active imaginations of their makers: from the narrow continent charted by Englishman John Farrer, in which a ten-day hike west from the head of Virginia's James River would bring one to the waterways of the "Indian Seas", to the fictional rivers conjectured by the Frenchman, Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce, baron de Lahontan, rivers that might carry explorers from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean; to the notions of pyramidal height-of-land and continental symmetry that influenced Jefferson's quest for a water route to the Pacific Ocean. - Foreword by John Logan Allen who has written more than twelve books, including his landmark, three-volume work North American Exploration. |
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Selections form The American State Papers Monograph Numbers
1, 2, 3 and 4, French and British Land Grants in the Post Vincennes
(Indiana) District 1750-1784 by Clifford Neal Smith - Price: $45.00
Note: Many of those at Post Vincennes ended up at Attakapas and Opelousas. |
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The American Heritage Short History of The Civil War by Bruce Catton - Price: $7.95 | |
Sherman's March by Burke Davis - Price: $7.95 The first full-length narrative of General William T. Sherman's Devastating March through Georgia and the Carolinas. |
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The Prison Life of Jefferson Davis by Lt. Col. John L. Craven, M.D. [Hardcover] - Price: $8.95 | |
The History of The United States to 1876 by T. Harry Williams, Richard N. Current and Frank Freidel - Price: $7.95 | |
Huey Long by T. Harry Williams [948 page paperback] - Price: $7.95 |
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Mardi Gras by Robert Tallant - Price: $10.95 | |
The Mighty Mississippi by Bern Keating; Photos by James L. Stanfield: National Geographic Society Book - Price: $7.95 |
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Women and New Orleans: A History by Mary Gehrman [text] and Nancy Ries [photography] - Price: $12.95 | |
Voodoo: Past and Present by Ron Bodin - Price: $9.95 | |
The Iroquois by Craig A. & Katherine M. Doherty - Price: $8.95 |
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Indians of Arkansas by Charles R. McGimsey III; and, What is
Archeology by Hester A. Davis - Price: $5.95
Includes burial mounds in North Louisiana; and, possible routes taken by Desoto |
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The Wichita Indians by E. Todd Smith - Price: $8.95 | |
Debrett's Texas Peerage by Hugh Best who was commissioned by Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Over 3000 pedigrees! Hardbound, 385pgs, with dust jacket - Price: $35.00 | |
Revolutionary War Genealogy by George K. Schweitzer, Ph.D.m Sc.D. [Softbound]- Price: $6.95 |
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Scottish Clans & Tartans: 150 tartans illustrated in full colour by Ian Grimble - Price: $8.95 | |
Heraldry & the heralds by Rodney Dennys [Hardbound w/dust jacket] - Price: $12.95 |
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American & British Genealogy & Heraldry: A Selected List of Books by P. William Filby - Price: $24.95 Withdrawn genealogy library 750-page Hardbound book in excellent condition with dust jacket |
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America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers by William Dollarhide & Ronald A. Bremer - Price: $7.95 The book identifies research facilities with genealogy colelctions at local, state, regional and national levels. The top ten genealogy resource centers in the U.S. are listed first, followed by the locations of the best genealogy resource centers for each state. After the state listings, there are chapters for identifying the regional branches of the National Archives and the vital statistices offices for each state. |
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The Spanish Empire in America by C. H. Haring [softcover] - Price: $7.95 Description from back cover: The Spanish Empire in America is an effort to bring together within the compass of a single volume what we know about the institutional history of the Spanish colonies in America from the discovery of America in 1492 down to the Wars of Independence. It is concerned with the transfer of Spanish modes of government and society from the Old World to the New, and with their evolution in a remote and very different American environment. (First published by Oxford University Press in 1947.) C. H. Haring was a distinguished student of Latin-American history and politics. |
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time [Hardbound] - Price: $8.95 | |
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time [Softbound] - Price: $5.95 |
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Map of Quebec, black & white, w/cities, towns & counties [17 1/2" * 23"] - Price: $6.00 | |
The British Museum Book of Cats: Ancient and Modern by Juliet Clutton-Brock - Price: $12.95 | |
The Island Race - an abridgement by Timothy Baker of the four volumes of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill - Price: $8.95 |
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Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe - Price: $9.95 Story of the four daughters of the Count of Provence: Marguerite, Eleanor, Sanchia and Beatrice who became Queens of France, England, Germany & Sicily. |
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New Homes In a New Land : German Immigration to Texas 1847-1861 - Price: $9.95 Contents: I. History of German Immigration to Texas, pgs 1-42; I.A -The Germans in Texas before 1836; I.B - The Germans in the Texas War of Independence; I.C - German Colonization of Texas, 1836-1844; I.D - The Adeleversin Immigration to Texas, 1844-1847; I.E - Aftermath of the Adeleverin; I.F - German Immigration to Texas, 1847-1861; II - List of Immigrants, pgs 43-152; III - Bibliography, p. 153-158; and, IV - Index [Only of Narrative part of book], pgs. 159-166 |
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Cookbooks: Cajun, Creole, New Orleans [Plus 1 on Nova Scotia's country restaurants] | |
Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen [Hardbound w/ dust jacket][2 Copies Available] - Price: $12.95 Here for the first time the famous food of Louisiana is presented in a cookbook written by a great creative chef who is himself world-famous. The extraordinary Cajun and Creole cooking of South Louisiana has roots going back over two hundred years, and today it is the one really vital, growing regional cuisine in America. No one is more responsible than Paul Prudhomme for preserving and expanding the Louisiana tradition, which he inherited from his own Cajun background. Chef Prudhomme's incredibly good food has brought people from all over America and the world to his restaurant, K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen, in New Orleans. To set down his recipes for home cooks, however, he did not work in the restaurant. In a small test kitchen, equipped with a home-size stove and utensils normal for a home kitchen, he retested every recipe two and three times to get exactly the results he wanted. Logical though this is, it was an unprecedented way for a chef to write a cookbook. But Paul Prudhomme started cooking in his mother's kitchen when he was a youngster. To him, the difference between home and restaurant procedures is obvious and had to be taken into account. So here, in explicit detail, are recipes for the great traditional dishes--gumbos and jambalayas, Shrimp Creole, Turtle Soup, Cajun "Popcorn," Crawfish Etouffee, Pecan Pie, and dozens more--each refined by the skill and genius of Chef Prudhomme so that they are at once authentic and modern in their methods. Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen is also full of surprises, for he is unique in the way he has enlarged the repertoire of Cajun and Creole food, creating new dishes and variations within the old traditions. Seafood Stuffed Zucchini with Seafood Cream Sauce, Panted Chicken and Fettucini, Veal and Oyster Crepes, Artichoke Prudhomme--these and many others are newly conceived recipes, but they could have been created only by a Louisiana cook. The most famous of Paul Prudhomme's original recipes is Blackened Redfish, a daringly simple dish of fiery Cajun flavor that is often singled out by food writers as an example of the best of new American regional cooking. For Louisianians and for cooks everywhere in the country, this is the most exciting cookbook to be published in many years. |
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Chef Paul Prudhomme's Seasoned America [Hardbound w/dustcover] - Price $10.95 | |
The Little Gumbo Book by Gwen McKee [Hardcover] - Price $12.95 Twenty-seven carefully created recipes that will enable everyone to enjoy the special experience of GUMBO |
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Dominique's Fresh Flavors Cooking with Latitude in New Orleans [Hardcover w/ dust jacket] by Dominique Macquet & John DeMers - Price: $6.95 What can you expect from a chef raised on Mauritius, who apprenticed in South Africa, traveled extensively within Latin and Asian cultures, mastered California cuisine as a Beverly Hills chef, and who now runs his own restaurant in New Orleans? Take it from legendary chef Jean-Louis Palladin: "A fabulous tour of global cuisine!" In DOMINIQUE'S FRESH FLAVORS, Dominique Macquet explores exotic culinary frontiers with the expertise and grounding of a classically trained French chef. "Cooking with Latitude" is how he describes both the poetic license he takes with traditional food and his culinary palate's tropical accents, which are garnered from his travels. The result is a stunning cuisine, at once local and global, surprising and familiar - and simply delicious! |
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Great Chefs of New Orleans II [1 Softbound; 1 Spiral-Bound] - Price: $7.95 Take a culinary journey with 60 new recipes from 13 of the most famous chefs in New Orleans. There are 101 pages of color photographs and complete menus from the following world-famous restaurants: Le Ruth's, Le Restaurant De La Tour Eiffel, Willy Coln's, Commander's Palace, The Versailles, La Riviera, Le Bec Fin, The Wong Brothers, La Provence, Christian's, La Savoie, Brennan's and Crozier's |
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Emeril's NEW New Orleans Cooking by Emeril Lagasse & Jesse Tirsch w/ Photographs by Brian Smale [Hardbound w/ dust jacket] - Price: $12.95 Emeril Lagasse fuses the rich traditions of Creole cookery with the best of America's regional cuisines and adds a vibrant new palette of tastes, ingredients, and styles. The heavy sauces, the long-cooked roux, and the smothered foods that were the heart of old-style New Orleans cooking have been replaced by simple fresh ingredients and easy cooking techniques with a light touch. Emeril serves up a masterpiece in his first cookbook, Emeril's New New Orleans Cooking. |
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Emeril's TV Dinners: Kickin' It Up a Notch with Recipes from Emeril Live and Essence of Emeril by Chef Emeril Lagasse [Hardbound w/ dust jacket] - Price: $9.95 Are you ready to kick it up a notch? Wait -- forget that. Are you ready to kick it up notches unknown to humankind? Finally, Emeril has written the book his fans of Emeril Live and Essence of Emeril have been waiting for -- a collection of his very favorite recipes from both shows. |
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Tout de Suite à la Microwave by Jean K. Durkee, A gourmet's cookbook of French, Acadian & Creole recipes - Price: $10.95 |
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Tout de Suite à la Microwave II by Jean K. Durkee, A gourmet's cookook of Mexican, Italian & French recipes - Price: $9.95
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The Cajun & Creole Cookbook: The Very Best of Modern Louisiana Cooking [Hardbound w/ dust jacket - coffee table size & quality book][Photographed Step-By-Step] by Ruby Le Bois - Price: $9.95 | |
La Bouche Creole by Leon E. Soniat, Jr. [Spiral-Bound] - Price: $7.95 Basic French cooking, gusty Spanish flavors, creativity, and a lot of love are Leon Soniat's ingredients for la bouche Creole (the Creole mouth). Interwoven with the recipes are the authorís recollections of New Orleans and of cooking with memere (grandmother) and mamete (mother). |
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Cajun Cooking by Norma MacMillan [80 pgs - 10" * 12.5" Hardbound with dust cover] Coffe Table Size & Quality - Price: $7.95 | |
More Cajun Cooking [Convenient Cooking Series] edited by Wendy Lazor, 64-page paperback booklet - Price: $3.95 | |
The Creole Cookbook - a Southern Living Book [Hardbound] - Price: $7.95 | |
The Ten Greatest New Orleans Recipes & A Hundred More by Tom Fitzmorris, New Orleans Menu Magazine, pub. 1984 [Softbound] - Price: $5.95 | |
big mama's Old Black Pot recipes by Ethel Rayson Dixon - Price: $9.95 | |
Southern Living Fish and Shellfish Cookbook by Lena E. Sturges, Foods Editor [Softbound] - Price: $ 6.95 | |
The James K. Polk Cookbook [spiral-bound] - Price: $7.95 Treasured and Contemporary Recipes Honoring the Eleventh President of the United States |
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Misc. Items | |
Cajun in Your Pocket Keychain - Six Authentic Cajun Sayings - Price: $9.95 •We Gon Pass A Good Time Yeah Cher •You Gotta Suck Da Head On Dem Der Crawfish •Oo, I Love You Like a Pig Loves Corn |
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Learn to Speak Spanish - 2 CD set. Includes progress tracking, advanced speech recognition, simulated conversation, extensive vocabulary and grammar tools - Price: $10.95 |
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Other authors and otrganizations
Acadie Then and Now: A People's History By Warren Perrin, Mary Broussard Perrin & Phil Comeau and 52 other authors
Acadians from around the world are showcased in a unique new book about the Acadian Diaspora, which focuses on their communities in the United States, Canada and France.
Available from the Acadian Museum Boutique
For description of the book - see The Acadian Museum News
"The Origin of The DOMINGUE FAMILY In Louisiana - And Their Ancestors In the Canary Islands" by Bertha Domingue Bernard, 2004
The book is 72 pages in length with 52 pages related to the 1779 immigrants to Louisiana - Manuel & Juana (Francisca) Dominguez - and four generations of their heritage in Tenerife, Canary Islands; dating to the early 1600s. The last 20 pages of the book relate to the Canary Island heritage of Antonio Dominguez (Manuel's son) and his wife, Maria Franquis - Bertha's direct lineage.
Bertha has researched the original Canary Island church sacramental records - primarily in the Los Realejos and San Juan de la Rambla areas of Tenerife - and she presents English translations of the many sacramental and related records located which establish and confirm the Dominguez Canary Island genealogical heritage. There are also numerous photographs of the various related areas and churches.
The price is $30.00, which includes postage and mailing.You may place your order direct with:
Bertha D. Bernard
911 W. St Mary Blvd
Lafayette LA 70506
email: bertha@georgerodrigue.com
Vacherie by Elton Oubre - Vacherie means "cattle ranch" and the place is a regional area of St. James Parish settled by the Germans and early Acadians.
Acadian Redemption: From Beausoliel Broussard to the Queen's Royal Proclamation by Warren A. Perrin
The book is available from the Acadian Museum in Erath, Louisiana - see home page for link to order form.
Below is a summary of the book and a brief bio of the author.
Summary
Acadian Redemption, the first biography of an Acadian exile, defines the 18th century society of Acadia into which Joseph Beausoleil Broussard was born in 1702. The book tells of his early life events and militant struggles with the British who had for years wanted to lay claim to the Acadians’ rich lands. Subsequent chapters discuss the epic odyssey during which Beausoleil led a group of one hundred ninety-three Acadians from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, the New Acadia, with the hope that his beloved Acadian culture would survive.
The last half of the book discusses the repercussions of Beausoleil’s life that resulted in the evolution of the Acadian culture into what is now called the “Cajun” culture and how it led to an eighth generation Beausoleil descendant, Warren A. Perrin, to bring a Petition seeking an apology from the British Crown in 1990. This Petition was successfully resolved on December 9, 2003, by the signing of the Queen’s Royal Proclamation.
About the Author
Warren A. Perrin is an attorney with the firm Perrin, Landry, deLaunay, Dartez and Ouellet, in Lafayette, Louisiana, and is a descendant of Beausoleil Broussard. He currently serves as President of the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana (CODOFIL). In 1999, Perrin served as President of a task force, appointed by then-Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, to carry out FrancoFete '99, a year-long event comprised of over 1,500 cultural celebrations in recognition of Louisiana's tri-centennial. He also helped to establish the non-profit Acadian Heritage and Culture Foundation, Inc., which operates the Acadian Museum of Erath, Louisiana. In recognition of his efforts, Perrin has been the recipient of many awards and honors, and has been the subject of many nationally-broadcast interviews in the United States, England, and Canada. He resides in Lafayette, Louisiana with his wife, Mary LeoniSee Table of Contents of the book - in pdf formatNote: See Corrections page for correction on name on page 68
Books by Dr. Shane K. Bernard - See his website at http://cajunculture.com
Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History (2008) [now also available in French]
Tabasco: An Illustrated History (2007)
The Cajuns: Americanization of a People (2003)
Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues (1996)
The History of Jungle Gardens (as co-author, 2010)
Teche A History of Louisiana's Most Famous Bayou [2016]
He also has a Blog - Bayou Teche Dispatches
Between the Crossroads: A Centennial History of Maurice, LA by Douglas L. Villien, Sr. [Available from Amazon]. Maurice, LA was founded by Jean Maurice Villien who had a store for a time at Ile Piquante [Patoutville].
History of the Cajuns: From Ancient France to Nova Scotia to Louisiana to Colonial Texas - Including the Participation of Louisiana and Texas in the American Revolution by Alex Loya
For a description of the book and order form, see http://www.freewebs.com/alexloya1/
Surviving Damnation by Dr. R. W. "Ben" Benoit
For a description of the book and order form, see Benoit Books
From Cradle to Grave: Journey of the Louisiana Orphan Train Riders Hardcover – September 1, 2014 by Inc Louisiana Orphan Train Society (Author), Neal Bertrand (Editor) - Available from Amazon
What do three nuns, two mayors, a Baptist preacher, and the founder of a car dealership all have in common? They all rode an orphan train from New York City to Louisiana as small children! What is an orphan train? Who determined its passenger list and their ultimate destination? What criteria were used to decide who would get the adventure of a lifetime? Who were these young passengers in this little-known chapter of American and Louisiana history? These orphans arrived in early twentieth century Louisiana - a foreign world and culture unlike anything these children had ever seen. It was a world in which some of these New York City street kids would adapt and even conquer their terrifying fear of chickens. Others became important public figures that were to influence their communities and region. How would the shameful stigma of being an orphan affect their lives? Would they overcome the rejection of their past and the obstacles that were set before them? This is a collection of true life stories shared by those who knew them well. Read and find out how their lives turned out.
JEANERETTE: My Hometown by Julaine Schexnayder. $15 plus $6 postage. Order from Julaine Schexnayder, P.O. Box 11341, New Iberia, LA 70562.
The Louisiana State Archives [Le Comité des Archives de la Louisiane] - See Publications List
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press
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