The History of Louisiana, Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina

The History of Louisiana is a work by the French ethnographer M. Le Page Du Pratz. Le Page lived in Louisiana from 1718 to 1734. Yet, he waited more than fifteen years after his return to France before publishing his Louisiana experience. The "Memoire sur la Louisiane" was published in the Journal Oeconomique between September 1751 and February 1753. Part of the book is devoted to the ethnographic description of the native peoples of Louisiana. Other sections describe the colony's history, from the Spanish and French explorers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the French settlements along the Mississippi.