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La Harpe's Post: Tales of French-Wichita Contact on the Eastern Plains
La Harpe's Post Tales of FrenchWichita Contact on the Eastern Plains
Author: George H. Odell
In 1718, Jean-Baptiste Benard, Sieur de la Harpe, departed St. Malo in Brittany for the New World. La Harpe, a member of the French bourgeoisie, arrived at Dauphin Island on the Gulf coast to take up the entrepreneurial concession provided by the director of the French colony, Jean Baptiste Lemoyne de Bienville, La Harpe's charge was to open a t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780817311629
ISBN-10: 0817311629
Publication Date: 9/18/2002
Pages: 464
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University Alabama Press
Book Type: Paperback
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