DeSoto Parish

by Emilia Gay Griffith Means and Liz Chrysler

Book Overview

Located in northwestern Louisiana, DeSoto Parish exemplifies the evolution of the Southern frontier. The parish was an early Louisiana meeting ground of Frenchmen from Natchitoches, who settled along Bayou Pierre and traded with the native Caddo Indians. In the 1840s, subsistence agriculture, cattle, and moderate trade were joined by the agriculture of the cotton kingdom with its flood of new settlers, who built small farms and sizable plantations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738587230
• ISBN13: 9780738587233
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.5" x 9.1"