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Laffite Treasure:Cuba
No full text"Legend of Jean LaFitte Gold Revived in Cuba," announced the headline of the article in the Galveston Daily News Sunday 24 March 1929 edition
Dr. Formento Makes A House Call To Maison Rouge
No full text(Ed. Note. The following article is taken from Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana, volume I, pages 410 - 411, published in 1892.
Calcasieu Parish Police Jury Split Over Laffite Memorial on I-10 Bridge
No full textAllen August of the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury is upset. he and some other people don't like the idea of naming the Lake Charles I-10 Bridge for Jean Laffite. After all, using Laffite's name on a respectable highway bridge would honor his "acts of piracy and cruelty" as some members of the Police Jury say
Club Info: Borderlands Notes
No full textThe Evangeline Genealogical and Historical Society is offering a reprint of Dr. John Sibley's Report From Natchtoches in 1807, edited, with an introduction by Annie Heloise Abel..
Mystery of LYNX' Visit
No full textOne of the most widely quoted eye-witness accounts of Jean Laffite at Galveston is thought to be a diary entry written by Lt. James M. McIntosh and subsequently published in the Knickerbocker Magazine in March, 184
Club Info: L.S.G Notes and News
No full textElection of LSG OfficersNominations for LSG ElectionLTJL Reprints1981 Membership dues1982 MeetingUnique Grand Isle "Sport"A Revie
Debate Promts Letters
No full textThe following is a copy of a letter Sir Jack D.L. Holmes of the Laffite Study Group wrote to the editor of the Lake Charles American Press newspaper regarding the controversy about whether or not the I-10 bridge shoud be named for Laffite
A Price On His Head or What Happens When You Test A Governor's Patience
No full textWhereas, the nefarious practice of running in contraband goods, which has hitherto prevailed in different parts of this state, to the great injury of the fair trader, and the diminution of the revenue of the United States, has of late much increased: and whereas the violators of the law, emboldened by the impunity of past respasses, no longer conceal themselves from the view of the honest part o the community..
JLNHP Reports
No full textThe following studies have been completed in relation to the Jean Lafitte National Historic Park in Louisiana-
The Laffite Network
No full textThe Laffite Study Group is a non-profit educational organization which aims to promote research in, and the dissemination of knowledge concerning Jean Laffite's role in American history, literature, and folklore