Louisiana Wild
Louisiana Wild

Author: C. C. Lockwood

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2015-09-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0807161233

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The scenic images that Louisiana brings to mind -- moss-draped cypress, lush marshlands, alligators gliding through bayous, herons coasting across an open sky -- all spring from one of the most diverse and productive ecosystems on the continent. This varied and inviting landscape gives rise to one of the state's many monikers, "Sportsman's Paradise," which rings true whether you are boating on picturesque Lake Martin or bird-watching among the ancient live oaks of Lafitte Woods. From the precious maritime forests of Grand Isle to the steep contours of Tunica Hills, Louisiana's wild outdoors defines each region's sense of place and value. For nearly thirty years, The Nature Conservancy in Louisiana has served as a steward of these ecological riches, protecting and maintaining more than 285,000 acres of the state's land. Now, for the first time, readers can observe the vast array of flora and fauna found in these complex habitats in Louisiana Wild, with the awe-inspiring photography of C. C. Lockwood. After trekking and canoeing through more than sixty properties managed by The Nature Conservancy, Lockwood presents a vivid photo narrative that journeys from the little-known Copenhagen Hills, a prairie habitat with the largest variety of woody plants in Louisiana; to the swampland lake of Cypress Island, with its massive rookery of roseate spoonbills and great egrets; to over a dozen other sites that showcase Louisiana's distinct environs. With 220 color images, Louisiana Wild pays homage to the immeasurable impact of The Nature Conservancy's efforts and will delight anyone who calls Louisiana home.

Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians

Author: Sophie White

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2013-01-14

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0812207173

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Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture—especially dress—was central to the elaboration of discourses about race. At the heart of France's seventeenth-century plans for colonizing New France was a formal policy—Frenchification. Intended to turn Indians into Catholic subjects of the king, it also carried with it the belief that Indians could become French through religion, language, and culture. This fluid and mutable conception of identity carried a risk: while Indians had the potential to become French, the French could themselves be transformed into Indians. French officials had effectively admitted defeat of their policy by the time Louisiana became a province of New France in 1682. But it was here, in Upper Louisiana, that proponents of French-Indian intermarriage finally claimed some success with Frenchification. For supporters, proof of the policy's success lay in the appearance and material possessions of Indian wives and daughters of Frenchmen. Through a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to the material sources, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians offers a distinctive and original reading of the contours and chronology of racialization in early America. While focused on Louisiana, the methodological model offered in this innovative book shows that dress can take center stage in the investigation of colonial societies—for the process of colonization was built on encounters mediated by appearance.

Wild Game Cookbook
Wild Game Cookbook

Author: John A. Smith

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 9780486251271

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Here is a lovingly prepared volume of 112 wild game recipes hunters, cooks and other lovers of good game can discover of creating superb, mouth-watering steaks, roasts, stews and other main dishes, as well as soups and sauces, from all kinds of fresh game.

Wild Flowers of the Big Thicket, East Texas, and Western Louisiana
Wild Flowers of the Big Thicket, East Texas, and Western Louisiana

Author: Geyata Ajilvsgi

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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"A total of 475 wild flowers from the area of Texas' Big Thicket are described and spectacularly pictured in true-to-life, full-color photographs in this field guide to one of the United States' most diverse, complex, and biologically lavish wild-flower regions"--Inside flap.

Louisiana Wildlife Agents
Louisiana Wildlife Agents

Author: Jerald Horst

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2011-10-03

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0807140015

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Wildlife agents prepare themselves for anything. In the blink of an eye, a routine arrest for hunting rabbits at night -- a crime that carries only a nominal fine -- can turn into a manhunt, with an officer's life suddenly at risk. In Louisiana Wildlife Agents, officers tell of the unimaginable dangers lurking in their supposedly mundane tasks as they police Louisiana's bayous and backroads. The sequel to Game Warden: On Patrol in Louisiana, this book allows wardens to share their stories detailing the perils and pleasures of life behind the wildlife badge. Jerald Horst has compiled dozens of vivid anecdotes, including, among others, accounts of the grueling training academy for wildlife agents and the real dangers in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, all told in the officers' voices. Agents' spouses also share their perspectives on the work of a wildlife guardian. Thrilling and amusing, at times heart-wrenching, but always life-affirming, the stories of Louisiana Wildlife Agents will instill in readers a new respect and appreciation for this challenging profession.

Louisiana Herb Journal
Louisiana Herb Journal

Author: Corinne Martin

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2022-04-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0807177407

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In a world of constant change and crisis, the relationship between humans and their environment has never been more vital. Louisiana Herb Journal invites readers into the world of medicinal herbs, introducing fifty herbs found in Louisiana, with details on identification, habitat, distribution, healing properties, and traditional uses, including instruction on popular preparation methods such as tinctures and teas. Interspersed with these practical details, herbalist Corinne Martin shares stories that foster a true connection between readers and the world around them, from tales of childhood cherry picking to harvest mishaps to folklife traditions passed down through the generations. Accessible to experienced and rookie herbalists alike, Louisiana Herb Journal offers a new way of looking at the natural world, getting to know one’s “home ground” through a lens of healing and participation. Family connections, an intimate knowledge of the surrounding lands and waters, strong community bonds, an irrepressible resilience, and a great capacity for celebrating life despite hardships are part and parcel of what it means to be from Louisiana. A celebration of the state and the cultures of those who live there, Louisiana Herb Journal reflects on the value of medicinal herbs in promoting personal healing and addressing current challenges to the state’s environmental and economic stability. Readers will gain a deeper recognition of the natural wealth Louisiana enjoys and the ways that our stewardship of wild plants can impact our personal health as well as the state’s ecological future.

After the Hunt
After the Hunt

Author: John D. Folse

Publisher:

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 854

ISBN-13: 9780970445742

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"After the Hunt, Chef John D. Folse's eighth cookbook, explores man's hunting history from cave man through American colonization. Travel through time as ancient man learns to create tools, nets and traps for hunting then, cultivates a gluttonous taste for wild game delicacies and grand game banquets that continue for days. From China to Egypt from Greece to Rome, the hunt was a revered sport that prepared men for war. Visit game parks of the noblemen and review the hunting privileges that were reserved for the aristocracy alone. Through Medieval Europe to the Renaissance the hunt was immortalized in paintings, tapestries, china, furniture, symphonies and song. With every page the reader comes to understand that man's love affair with hunting is not just about the kill, but about the pursuit of an ancient, innate treasure" -- publisher website (December 2007).

No Man's Land Pioneers
No Man's Land Pioneers

Author: Rosemary Durham

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-21

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 9781694632128

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No Man's Land is the ancestral and cultural region of the Four Winds Tribe - Louisiana Cherokee. This enigmatic group exists largely because of the history of the region. Other mavericks came into the region, without the auspices of any government. These nonconformists give an interesting story about the settlement of the country and particularly the first settlers of the westward expansion, well before Lewis and Clark trekked up the Missouri. The first settlers were predominantly Native Americans from the Carolinas.President Thomas Jefferson, without approval of Congress, had his emissaries negotiate for the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 Million in 1803. However, the boundaries of the territories were not well defined.A disagreement over the western boundary of the Purchase arose between the new U.S. Louisiana and the Spanish Texas. Spain claimed their eastern boundary was from Arroyo Hondo at Natchitoches, now Louisiana south to the Calcasieu River and on to the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. facetiously claimed to the Rio Grande River, but realistically claimed to the Sabine River.This is the stories of those intrepid spirits who made the trek, settled the wild country, and created a unique American Indian - English culture within a French - Spanish territory without any government.

Louisiana's No Man's Land
Louisiana's No Man's Land

Author: Scott DeBose

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2024-06-03

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1540262383

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Join author Scott DeBose on a rugged journey through Louisiana's No Man's Land. Most Americans know the basics of the Louisiana Purchase, but few know that West Louisiana was left out of the purchase. They also don't know that in 1806, the United States and Spain almost went to war over the boundary, and it was only an agreement negotiated by the American and Spanish commanders that prevented full scale war. But it wasn't out of patriotism that James Wilkinson, commanding general of the US Army, negotiated the agreement. He was not only a Spanish Spy, but he was involved in Aaron Burr's conspiracy. America now had a 40-mile wide and roughly 500-mile-long strip of land they could not station troops or police, and outlaws soon flocked to the region. This book will tell the story of how No Man's Land was created, the conspiracy behind its creation, the outlaws, smugglers, and pirates who used the region as a base (such as Jean Lafite, Jim Bowie and John Murrell "The Reverend Devil"). But it wasn't all outlaws--those folks will get their due, as well.

C. C. Lockwood's Atchafalaya
C. C. Lockwood's Atchafalaya

Author: C. C. Lockwood

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2007-09-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780807132593

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At nearly 1.4 million acres, the Atchafalaya Basin in south central Louisiana comprises America's largest swamp wilderness. Award-winning nature photographer C. C. Lockwood is the foremost chronicler of this natural treasure. What began as a curious side-trip in 1973 became a decades-long love affair, and for more than thirty years, Lockwood has explored the Atchafalaya's waters and captured its haunting beauty on film. Now, twenty-five years after the publication of his first book, he returns to his favorite subject in C. C. Lockwood's Atchafalaya. His passion for the Atchafalaya as expressed in his photographs can be compared to John James Audubon's exuberant appreciation for the state's abundant bird life as depicted in his prints more than 150 years ago. The art of both exalts Louisiana's wildlife -- and cautions against taking it for granted. Lockwood revisits and reflects on the places he has frequented most in the swamp, recalling his escapades both long past and recent among gators and skeeters. He shares the thoughts of basin residents about how the Atchafalaya has changed over time, for better and for worse. Increases and decreases in various bird and other animal populations, changes in water levels and consistency, flora mainstays and trees gone missing, burgeoning aquatic vegetation -- all are keenly observed by this explorer. Lockwood finds undiminished the seductive seasonal and diurnal moods of the swamp: autumn and spring, sunset and moonrise, as breathtaking now as in the past. In nearly one-hundred dazzling color photographs, Lockwood brilliantly documents the Atchafalaya's timeless beauty. He shows amazingly diverse and abundant wildlife, rookeries with thousands of egrets and herons, waters with billions of crawfish, and ridges with deer, squirrel, and woodcock. Waters run deep in Lockwood's soul, as evidenced in his intimate treatment of the meandering bayous fringed with bald cypress trees, the many glassy lakes reflecting vegetation into double images, and the mighty Atchafalaya River -- the lifeline of the swamp."No place in the world gives me such a feeling of peace as America's largest river basin swamp," writes Lockwood. In these pages, he pays homage to the queen of U.S. wetlands.