Lafitte the Pirate

by Lyle Saxon

Overview

Lyle Saxon's superbly written account examines Lafitte's fascinating career and frees the truth of the pirate's life from the web of fantastic myths which grew up around him.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780882893952
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	04/30/1989
Series:	Southern Library Series
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Lyle Saxon (1891-1946) ranks among Louisiana's most outstanding writers. During the 1920s and 1930s he was the central figure in the regionís literary community, and was widely known as a raconteur and bon vivant. In addition to Father Mississippi, Lafitte the Pirate, and Children of Strangers, he also wrote Fabulous New Orleans, Old Louisiana, The Friends of Joe Gilmore, and was a co-author of Gumbo Ya-Ya, with Edward Dreyer and Robert Tallant. During the Depression, he directed the state WPA Writers Project, which produced the WPA Guide to Louisiana and the WPA Guide to New Orleans.

Table of Contents

I	The Brothers Lafitte	3
II	At the Blacksmith Shop	12
III	Old New Orleans	20
IV	The Smugglers	27
V	Barataria	34
VI	Gambi and Dominique You	44
VII	"Callalou"	52
VIII	The Arrest	61
IX	On Sunday Afternoon	67
X	General Humbert's Birthday Dinner	75
XI	The Lafittes become Outlaws	81
XII	Open Defiance	90
XIII	Two Rewards are Offered	96
XIV	Pierre Goes to Jail	104
XV	Jean Acquires a Lawyer and a Mistress	114
XVI	John Grymes and Edward Livingston	119
XVII	The Governor's Lady	124
XVIII	The British Offer	129
XIX	The Double-Dealers	140
XX	Barataria is Destroyed	153
XXI	General Andrew Jackson	160
XXII	The Pirates Become Patriots	172
XXIII	A Lion Among the Ladies	186
XXIV	Reinstated to Citizenship	194
XXV	Public Opinion Veers About	199
XXVI	The Spanish Spies	205
XXVII	Galveston	214
XXVIII	All Things to All Men	224
XXIX	The Last of Campeachy	240
XXX	Fragments	257
XXXI	The Legendary Lafitte	271
XXXII	Buried Treasure	290
	Bibliography	299