Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisian...
Burton, Helen Sophie / Smith, F. Todd
Strategically located at the western edge of the Atlantic World, the French post of Natchitoches thrived during the eighteenth century as a trade hub between the well-supplied settlers and the isolated Spaniards and Indians of Texas. Colonial Natchitoches is the first thorough study of its society and economy. Through statistical analyses of birth and baptismal records, census figures, and appropriate French and Spanish archives, Burton and Sm...