"A respected retired criminologist picks up a pistol and shoots his wife five times as she rocks on her plantation home's gallery." The wife "miraculously survived" and gives this account.
Roman Catholic sisters first traveled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. InAcross God's Frontiers, Anne M. Butler traces the ways in which sisters
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler was a maverick marine, the emblem of "the old corps," and one of the most controversial figures in Marine history. He was a high school dropout who became a maj
Food is central in the picturesque plantation country along the Mississippi River in Louisiana between Baton Rouge and the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to wonderful local recipes, this cookbook include
The Blue Voyage and Other Poems is a new collection by Anne French – elegiac in tone and confident in execution. A more comic initial section (by noted New Zealand regional poet ‘William Butler Smith’
Anny Butler is a caretaker, a nurturer, first for her own brothers and sisters, and then as a director of an agency devoted to the welfare of children. What she has never had is a real family. That c
Documents the physical and mental punishment of female prisoners in the West between 1865 and 1915, drawing on prison records and the women's own words to analyze the role of gender, race, class, and
There’s nothing there now but a bunch of weeping willows, but in the nineteenth century, below the St. Francisville bluff was one of the most important ports on the Mississippi River. Bayou Sara had a
Louisiana's wonderful wetlands, coastal marshes, and swamps have meant much to different visitors over the years--sustenance for fisherman and trappers, food supplies for hunters, inspiration for arti
Situated where the rugged Tunica Hills skirt the Mississippi River, St. Francisville began as part of Spanish West Florida in the early 1800s. The first settlers were adventurous Anglos who rebelled a
