New Orleans the Place and the People

The work presented here is a popular history of New Orleans published in 1895 and covering the entire history of the city down to that date. It is written in a vivid, discursive style.
Not as well-known as some of her contemporaries—Mark Twain, George W. Cable, and Joel Chandler Harris, to name a few—author and historian Grace King (1851- 1932) was nonetheless highly praised in her own right. She garnered attention from such eminent critics as William Dean Howells, and her work frequently ...