The Memories of Fifty Years - Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks
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Fun with the Dogs--Cancelling a Note
CHAPTER XXIX. AMERICANIZING LOUISIANA. Powers of Louisiana Courts--Governor William C.C. Claiborne--Cruel O'Reilly--Lefrenier and Noyan Executed--A Dutch Justice--Edward Livingston--A Caricature of General Jackson--Stephen Mazereau--A Speech in Three Languages--John R. Grymes--Settling a Ca. Sa.--Batture Property--A Hundred Thousand Dollar Fee CHAPTER XXX. DIVISION OF NEW ORLEANS INTO MUNICIPALITIES. American Hotel--Introduction of Steamboats--Faubourg St. Mary--Canal Street--St. Charles Hotel--Samuel J. Peters--James H. Caldwell--Fathers of the Municipality--Bernard Marigny--An Ass--A.B. Roman CHAPTER XXXI. BLOWING UP THE LIONESS. Doctor Clapp--Views and Opinions--Universal Destiny--Alexander Barrow --E.D. White--Cross-Breed, Irish Renegade, and Acadian--A Heroic Woman--The Ginseng Trade--I-I-I'll D-d-die F-f-first CHAPTER XXXII. GRADUAL EXTINCTION OF THE RED MAN. Line Creek Fifty Years Ago--Hopothlayohola--McIntosh--Undying Hatred--A Big Pow-wow--Massacre of the McIntoshes--Nehemathla--Onchees--The Last |
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