[BAUDRY, L.N.]

Classic early work on Louisiana. It has been suggested that this work was written when it was first thought that Louisiana would be returned to France, in an effort to demonstrate its importance as a colony. While less a work of personal observation than a collection of contemporary data and reports, the text includes some discussion of Texas, the resident Indian tribes and their languages, accounts of slavery and colonial administration, etc. Pages 348-62 include important Dakota and Chippeway vocabularies. A wonderful Louisiana item and an important book on the early American West. Ref. Sabin 3979