Always for the Underdog: Leather Britches Smith and the Grabow War
Description:
Louisiana’s Neutral Strip, an area of pine forests, squats between the Calcasieu and Sabine Rivers on the border of East Texas. Originally a lawless buffer zone between Spain and the United States, its hardy residents formed tight-knit communities for protection and developed a reliance on self, kin, and neighbor. In the early 1900s, the timber boom sliced through the forests and disrupted these dense communities. Mill towns sprang up, and the promise of money lured land speculators, timber wor…
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Date:
December 15, 2010
Creator:
LeJeune, Keagan
Partner:
UNT Press