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Pierre's resolute nature, unflagging work ethic, steadfast determination, and farsighted vision earned him a place of respect he could never have imagined when he left his native country. How he forged his place in this new landscape echoes the life journeys of countless immigrants--yet remains uniquely his own. His story and his family's story exemplify the experiences of many nineteenth century immigrants to Louisiana and the experiences of their twentieth century descendants.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50359202414865,"sku":"CIN061547702XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/061547702X.jpg?v=1761990243"},{"product_id":"hardscrabble-to-hallelujah-volume-1-bayou-terrebonne-book-christopher-everette-cenac-9780989759410","title":"Hardscrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 1 Bayou Terrebonne","description":"This book represents the first time that the known history and a significant amount of new information has been compiled into a single written record about one of the most important eras in the south central coastal bayou parish of Terrebonne. The book makes clear the unique geographical, topographical, and sociological conditions that beckoned the first settlers who developed the large estates that became sugar plantations. This first of a planned four-volume series chronicles details about founders and their estates along Bayou Terrebonne from its headwaters in the northern civil parish to its most southerly reaches near the Gulf of Mexico. Those and other parish plantations along important waterways contributed significantly to the dominance of King Sugar in Louisiana. The rich soils and opportunities of the area became the overriding reason many well-heeled Anglo-Americans moved there to join Francophone locals in cultivating the crop. From that nineteenth century period up to the twentieth century's side effects of World Wars I and II, Hardscrabble to Hallelujah, Volume I Bayou Terrebonne describes important yet widely unrecognized geography and history. Today, cultural and physical legacies such as ex-slave-founded communities and place names endure from the time that the planter society was the driving economic force of this fascinating region.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51322598424849,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51322600882449,"sku":"CIN0989759415VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0989759415.jpg?v=1763481390"},{"product_id":"livestock-brands-and-marks-book-christopher-everette-cenac-9780989759403","title":"Livestock Brands and Marks","description":"Researching the original brand registration of his great-grandfather Pierre Cenac for his book Eyes of an Eagle, Dr. Christopher Everette Cenac Sr. discovered a serendipitous trove of local history in the form of long-forgotten volumes in the Terrebonne Parish Courthouse in Houma, Louisiana. The three ledger books that emerged through the efforts of the local Clerk of Court became, in themselves, a series of capsulized glimpses into the citizenry of the area's early agrarian foundations. In extraordinary condition, these ledgers held an unprecedented set of the original livestock brands and marks of bustling bayou cattle country.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Each registration entry furnished a record of the progression of settlement of the parish. The registration of a brand often served as the family's calling card upon making Terrebonne Parish their home. Livestock Brands and Marks: An Unexpected Bayou Country History: 1822-1946 Pioneer Families: Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana is designed not only to share the actual registration treasures of all 1140 brands in the brand books themselves, but also to chronicle a short history of laws governing animal identification, to document advances in forms of ownership identification, and to familiarize the reader with both ancient and more recent livestock breeds that received brands and other marks recorded in those three ledger books. 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The book documents the enterprises that helped create Terrebonne Parish: sugar plantations, cypress and syrup mills, rice farms, shrimp-drying platforms, fur trapping, boat building, soft-shell crab, shrimp, oyster, and turtle harvesting, raising livestock, and the burgeoning oilfield and marine transportation industries. Volume II also expounds upon the effects of coastal erosion, rising sea-levels, and the threat of tropical weather on the vulnerable Louisiana coast and the impact these forces have had on the possessions and livelihoods of DuLarge's residents. 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