A French Aristocrat in the American West: The Shattered Dreams of de Lassus de Luzières

by Carl J. Ekberg

In 1790, Pierre-Charles de Lassus de Luzi?res gathered his wife and children and fled Revolutionary France. His trek to America was prompted by his "purchase" of two thousand acres situated on the bank of the Ohio River from the Scioto Land Company--the institution that infamously swindled French buyers and sold them worthless titles to property. When de Luzi?res arrived and realized he had been defrauded, he chose, in a momentous decision,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826218962
• ISBN13: 9780826218964
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5