"Backdoor to the Gulf"

by Al Dranguet and Roman Heleniak

More on this study:
The Historical Transformation of the Manchac Basin Ecosystem: Ecological Degradation at the Hands of Man DVD: The Manchac Swamp: Manmade Disaster in Search of Resolution

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This publication is the culmination of the authors' 20 years of research on the history of Pass Manchac and the western basin of Lake Pontchartrain. It also marks and expansion of the authors' first printed work on the area, BACKDOOR TO THE GULF: THE PASS MANCHAC REGION 1699-1863. The first study ended with Union forces occupying the fabled Isle of Orleans, a region bordered on the west by the Mississippi River and on the north by South Pass Manchac, Lake Maurepas, the Amite River and Bayou Manchac. The latter is no longer navigabl, but in the early history of the reion, Bayou Manchac allowed Indians, trappers, and others to go by boat from the Mississippi to Lake Pontchartrain and out to the Gulf of Mexico.

For more about the book or to request a copy, please contact pbrp@selu.edu.