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George Washington Cable

Strange True Stories of Louisiana

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform April 11, 2015)

Strange True Stories of Louisiana is George Washington Cable’s compilation of seven unusual, factual accounts of life and history in the area. They include tales of two French sisters who made the dangerous trek to the unsettled lands of north Louisiana at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Focusing on New Orleans, Cable adds the story of “The ‘Haunted House’ in Royal Street,” which spurs the imaginations of ghost hunters more than a century after its original writing. In the first published form, there is also a diary account from the Civil War of a Union woman trapped behind the battle lines.

A celebrated journalist of his time, George Washington Cable became best known for his writings from New Orleans during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was the author of numerous news pieces and books, including Old Creole Days and The Creoles of Louisiana.

CONTENTS.

HOW I GOT THEM

THE YOUNG AUNT WITH WHITE HAIR

THE ADVENTURES OF FRANÇOISE AND SUZANNE.

I. The Two Sisters

II. Making Up The Expedition

III. The Embarkation

IV. Alix Carpentier

V. Down Bayou Plaquemine.—the Fight With Wild Nature

VI. The Twice-married Countess

VII. Odd Partners In The Bolero Dance

VIII. A Bad Storm In A Bad Place

IX. Maggie And The Robbers

X. Alix Puts Away The Past

XI. Alix Plays Fairy.—parting Tears.

XII. Little Paris

XIII. The Countess Madelaine

XIV. "Poor Little Alix!"

XV. The Discovery Of The Hat

XVI. The Ball

XVII. Picnic And Farewell

ALIX DE MORAINVILLE

SALOME MÜLLER, THE WHITE SLAVE.

I. Salome and her Kindred

II. Six Months at Anchor

III. Famine at Sea

IV. Sold into Bondage

V. The Lost Orphans

VI. Christian Roselius

VII. Miller Versus Belmonti

VIII. The Trial

IX. The Evidence

X. The Crowning Proof

XI. Judgment

XII. Before the Supreme Court

THE "HAUNTED HOUSE" IN ROYAL STREET.

I. As It Stands Now

II. Madame Lalaurie

III. A Terrible Revelation

IV. The Lady's Flight

V. A New Use

VI. Evictions

ATTALIE BROUILLARD.

I. Furnished Rooms

II. John Bull

III. Ducour's Meditations

IV. Proxy

V. The Nuncupative Will

VI. Men can be Better than their Laws

WAR DIARY OF A UNION WOMAN IN THE SOUTH

I. Secession

II. The Volunteers.—Fort Sumter

III. Tribulation

IV. A Beleaguered City

V. Married

VI. How it was in Arkansas

VII. The Fight for Food and Clothing

VIII. Drowned out and starved out

IX. Homeless and Shelterless

X. Frights and Perils in Steele's Bayou

XI. Wild Times in Mississippi

XII. Vicksburg

XIII. Preparations for the Siege

XIV. The Siege itself

XV. Gibraltar falls

ISBN
1511663782 / 9781511663786
Pages
342
Weight
20.8 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.8 in.

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