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Located in northwestern Louisiana, DeSoto Parish exemplifies the evolution of the Southern frontier. The parish was an early Louisiana meeting ground of Frenchmen from Natchitoches, who settled along Bayou Pierre and traded with the native Caddo Indians. In the 1840s, subsistence agriculture, cattle, and moderate trade were joined by the agriculture of the cotton kingdom with its flood of new settlers, who built small farms and sizable plantations. In the late 19th century, the economy diversified as the whistle of the railroad echoed against the roar of the lumber mills. Inhabiting new station-stop towns, DeSoto Parish residents built schools, filled churches, and settled their disputes in a fine new courthouse in the parish seat of Mansfield. Comings and goings, frozen by the flash of a camera, are presented in Images of America: DeSoto Parish.
"These pages were taken from Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana .... The articles contain a historical background of the parish and biographical sketches of people most usually residing within the parish"--Introd.
Located in northwestern Louisiana, DeSoto Parish exemplifies the evolution of the Southern frontier. The parish was an early Louisiana meeting ground of Frenchmen from Natchitoches, who settled along Bayou Pierre and traded with the native Caddo Indians. In the 1840s, subsistence agriculture, cattle, and moderate trade were joined by the agriculture of the cotton kingdom with its flood of new settlers, who built small farms and sizable plantations. In the late 19th century, the economy diversified as the whistle of the railroad echoed against the roar of the lumber mills. Inhabiting new station-stop towns, DeSoto Parish residents built schools, filled churches, and settled their disputes in a fine new courthouse in the parish seat of Mansfield. Comings and goings, frozen by the flash of a camera, are presented in Images of America: DeSoto Parish.
Text, June 22, 1936. Describes 33 towns within DeSoto Parish. Includes population, location, history and description. Mansfield Louisiana gets the lengthiest coverage.
Sure, the stories of the Deep South during the 19th and 20th centuries are troubling. But, sometimes it's good for us to look deeper and often we find great stories of love and triumph. This is such a story. My Four Grandparents highlights the lives of four dynamic people living in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana over the span of the 20th century. This book is about those people, those times and their deep ties to northern Louisiana, DeSoto Parish and the small town Frierson. My Four Grandparents recounts the stories of these beloved figures from the perspective of "kinfolk" who loved them passionately. It takes a journey through the Deep South and reveals that beneath all the ugliness of those turbulent times that love, family and sacrifice abounded. Poems, quotes, words of wisdom, and captivating facts have been compiled to chronicle both My Four Grandparents as well as their ancestor's lives to cover two hundred years intimately associated with DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. These stories are rarely told. Join me on this journey because it is time to hear their story: the good, the bad and the ugly.