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Cajuns on the Bayous

by Ramsey, Carolyn
Additional authors: Ill. -- Imphang, Alex
Published by : Hastings house, publishers (New York) Physical details: 300 pages Year: 1957
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900 - 999 917.633 Ram (Browse shelf) Available Memorial 25873

Includes Index

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- M'sieu Andre's prophacy -- "Steamin at de Moon" -- "General Mixtry" on an Isle of Paradise -- Moss pickers of the Lafourche Interior -- Les Petits Habitants -- Une 'Tite Journee down the longest street in the world -- Fis-Dodo with grand isle baratarians -- Campboat caravan to Palmetto Bayou -- Trappers of the Golden Marshlands -- Fur Buyers day and night -- Cap'n Dew Robert and the fishboat "Elaine" -- Jumbo men in the shrimp Capital of the World -- Scholarly treasure hunters in a shanty-boat metropolis -- Ole man river's delta cajuns -- Back to M'sieu Andre

Leisurely and entertaining account of the author's search for Evangeline's people, in the bayous of South Louisiana, in which she talks to people in all walks of life.