No Man’s Land—A History of El Camino Real

About this eBook

Author

Nardini, Louis Raphael

Title

No Man's Land: A History of El Camino Real

Credits

Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net; print source courtesy of Ron Box

Language

English

LoC Class

F350.5: United States local history: Mississippi River and Valley. Middle West

Subject

Louisiana -- History

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 55055

Release Date

July 6, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.NO MAN’S LAND
2. 2.ACKNOWLEDGMENT
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
6. 6.I EL CAMINO REAL — The Caddo Federation of Indians
7. 7.II SOME EARLY HISTORY — 1689. — 1690-1691 — 1700 — 1701-1707 — A Legend of the Flores Family — The Letter
8. 8.III DACHICOIN—A NOBLE INDIAN LOS ADAIS, 1723
9. 9.IV ST. DENIS AND THE SPANISH
10. 10.V DOCTORS AND EARLY MEDICINE—1722 TO 1744
11. 11.VI ROMANCE AT LOS ADAIS
12. 12.VII INCIDENTS OF THE YEARS, 1735-1742
13. 13.VIII THE THREE CABINS
14. 14.IX AFTER ST. DENIS
15. 15.X AFTER THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE
16. 16.XI THE DEVIL’S PLAY GROUND
17. 17.XII SATAN’S AGENT—JOHN A. MURRELL
18. 18.XIII THE BREAK-UP OF THE NEUTRAL STRIP
19. 19.XIV THE FILIBUSTER OF 1812-1821
20. 20.XV FORT JESUP — The Gaines Military Road , 1827-1828
21. 21.XVI TEXAS AND INDEPENDENCE 1831-1836 — TREATY WITH THE CADDO INDIANS
22. 22.ADDENDA
23. 23.LAND GRANTS — Claim of Pedro Dolet, Frenchman (Pierre Dole) — Claim of Edward Murphy — Claim of Edward Murphy for the Firm of Murphy, Smith, Barr and Davenport — Claim of Michel Crow — Claim of the Heirs of Widow Tontin — Claim of the Heirs of Anthanase Poissot — Claim of the Firm of Murphy, Smith, Davenport and Barr — Claim of the Heirs of Pierre Gainnie (Pedro Gane) (Pier Gagnier) Hipolite Bordelon Francois Grappe (Francisco Grebb) (Franquis Grebbe) — Families of the Neutral Strip (1805)
24. 24.FAMILY TREE OF ST. DENIS (Born Sept. 17, 1676, Died June 11, 1744.)
25. 25.BAPTISMAL RECORDS OF NATCHITOCHES 1734 TO 1740
26. 26.SOLDIERS IN NATCHITOCHES—1742
27. 27.MERCHANTS, FARMERS AND TRADERS IN NATCHITOCHES—1742 — Traders — Merchants — Horse Traders — Farmers — Soldier Farmers — Merchants at Los Adais — SOLDIERS AT LOS ADAIS—1742 — Farmers
28. 28.REFERENCES
29. 29.PERSONALITIES — Clifton Robert Ammons — Bernice C. Arthur — John Milton Belisle — Jack and Albert Bell — Lloyd Vernon Blunt — Sidney Williams Bright — Joseph Frederick Brosset ★ — Mrs. Eli Houston Butts ★ — James Coco — Fred Litton Cooper Mrs. Dottie Dee Cooper — Lloyd Earl Dean — Alvin J. DeBlieux, Sr. ★ — Jack Lestan DeBlieux ★ — Mrs. Lawrence Cleveland DeLatin ★ — Mrs. Percy Roberts Dillon ★ — Mrs. Herbert Dorfer, Ph. ★ — Exchange Bank & Trust Co. — Ambrose Charles Flores ★ — C. B. Funderburk — Mr. and Mrs. Clive Glover — Joseph Jesse Grappe ★ — Hon. Lloyd James Harrison ★ — Loyd Bernard Harrison — Thomas James Harrison ★ — Thomas Ortenburger Harrison ★ — Mrs. Earl Hernandez ★ — Edmond Prudhomme Hughes ★ — Mrs. Maxie Mae Jinkins ★ — Dr. Edward Everette Jordan ★ — Kaffie & Frederick, Inc. — Frank Marion Kees, Jr. — Mrs. W. M. Knott — Luddie Lavespere ★ — Samuel LeCaze, Sr. ★ — Samuel LeCaze, Jr. ★ — Henry Howard Lemoine ★ — Henry Oscar Lestage, Jr. ★ — William Tell (W.T.) Lestage ★ — George Washington Lucius — Christopher C. McCaa ★ — Arthur R. McClery — Giles W. Millspaugh — Carson Meade Nardini, Sr. ★ — Louis Raphael Nardini, Jr. ★ — NATCHITOCHES BROADCASTING CO. Norman Fletcher-Hillman Bailey, Jr. — Rollie Edwin Patrick — The Perrier Family ★ — Elmer Lawrence Poche ★ — William A. Ponder in memoriam — James Woodrow Prudhomme ★ — Ray Joseph Raines — Stephen Clyde Rambin ★ — Mrs. Elaine R. Smith ★ — Riley John (R.J.) Stoker — John Coleman Tarver ★ — Thomas Lester Ward — Mrs. Kent Wardlow ★ — Jack Eazel Whitley — Mrs. Irma Sompayrac Willard — Mrs. Lee Terry Williams — Dr. William Kenneth Wimberly — Marshall Ellis Winn — Glen Lawrence Wyatt
30. 30.Footnotes
31. 31.Transcriber’s Notes

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