Life and Times of Jean Laffite (Texas Digital Library - TDL E-Journals)
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No full textFrom Pierre Larousse's Grand Dictionnaire Universal (1891), tome dixiem, p.58, comes this intriguing biographical sketch of a French corsair named Nicolas Laffite
Selections from the Lafitte Book
No full textThe Lafitte Book is a 202-page typescript compiled during November-December, 1942, at New Orleans, La., by employees of the Federal Writers Project, Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.)
The Famous Lafittes At Galveston
No full textAfter the British had been expelled from Louisiana, in 1815, the two Lafittes, who are destined to live for ever in her history, and who, in justice to their memory, should not, in the pages of a truthful and sober narrative, have their actions and character misrepresented as they have been, and will probably contunue to be, in the pages of wild fiction, therefore it is not to be supposed, as it is by gullible dupes, that they left treasures bured in any portion of her territory
Notes and Documents
No full textLaffite vs. DumonA Guide to Laffite Materials in the Louisiana Division of the New Orleans Public LibraryEarly Nineteenth Century Maps of Louisiana, Texas, and the Gulf of Mexico in the Library of Congress (Geography and Map Division)The Service Record of Renato BelucheThe Dominique You Paper
Comment On Laffite In Southwest Louisiana And A Response To John Howells
No full textOn November 27th, the same day we received the Fall issue of the LSG newsletter, we talked with Mike LeBleu of Houston. Mike is a direct descendant of Arsene LeBleu of Lake Charles, one of the subjects of Robert Vogel's article about Laffite and Southwest Louisiana published in the Fall issue
An Account of Laffite's Former Crewmen in 1850
No full textThe romantic allure of the Laffite brothers has attracted writers from Major A. Lacarriere Latour and his Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana (1816) to current members of the Laffite Study Group
Treasures Of Jean Laffite
No full textTreasure books and old newspaper articles have many stories of Laffite's treasures supposedly secreted in secure hiding places in southern Louisiana and near Galveston. Few have reported finding treasure, possibly because the finders didn't wish to advertise their good fortune
Contemporary Descriptions of Jean Laffite Found In Galveston's Rosenberg Library
No full textIn the Galveston City Directory of 1857, Early History of Galveston, page 61, Co 1, W.D.C. Hall who had been an associate of early Texas filibusters Col. Henry Perry and General James Long was interviewed
Guide To Articles In The LSG Newsletter, 1980 - 1988
No full textA guide to articles in the LSG Newsletter, 1980 - 198
Documents. The Dispersal of Privateers and Smugglers at Barataria
No full textLetter of Colonel George T. Ross, commanding the U.S. 44th Inf. Regiment, to Acting Secretary of War James Monroe, concerning the expedition to Barataria