a VERMILION PARISH article

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Lafayette (LA) Daily Advertiser, June 24, 1997

Further Readings on Vermilion Parish

by Jim Bradshaw


  • Coozan Dudley LeBlanc, From Huey Long to Hadacol, Floyd Martin Clay, Pelican Publishing Co., Gretna, 1973.
  • Historical Sketches of Vermilion Parish, Wakeman E. Edwards, Vermilion Historical Society, Abbeville, 1979.
  • History of Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, Vermilion Historical Society, 1983.
  • Louisiana Paradise, The Chenieres and Wetlands of Southwest Louisiana, Amanda Segrera Hanks, Center for Louisiana Studies, USL, 1988.
  • Louisiana: A Student's Guide to Localized History, Joe Gray Taylor, Teachers' College Press, Columbia University, New York, 1966.
  • The Catholic Church in Louisiana, Roger Baudier, Louisiana Library Association Public Library Section, New Orleans, 1972 reprint.
  • The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana:
    • Volume II, The Spanish Presence in Louisiana, 1763 - 1803, 1996.
    • Volume X, A Refuge for All Ages: Immigration in Louisiana History, 1996.
  • "Vermilion Bayou in Steamboat Days," Margaret Manley Kerkieck, Attakapas Gazette, Volume IX (1974).
  • Vignettes of Louisiana Church History, George C. Poret, Educational Associates, Lafayette, 1985.

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