Съдържание:
  • Part I. LaSalle's expedition of 1682
  • The image of LaSalle in North American historiography /
  • Carl A. Brasseaux
  • Sources for the LaSalle expedition of 1682 /
  • Patricia K. Galloway
  • The Chickasaw contact with the LaSalle expedition in 1682 /
  • John D. Stubbs, Jr.
  • LaSalle at the Natchez : An archaeological and historical perspective /
  • Jeffrey P. Brain
  • The impact of the LaSalle expedition of 1682 on European cartography /
  • Louis De Vorsey, Jr.
  • Part II. The beginnings of French colonialism in the Southeast
  • France, the New World, and colonial expansion /
  • James J. Cooke
  • Reluctant imperialist : France in North America /
  • Glenn R. Conrad
  • Andres de Pez and Spanish reaction to French expansion into the Gulf of Mexico /
  • Jack D.L. Holmes
  • The English reaction to LaSalle /
  • William S. Coker
  • Part III. French settlement and Indian neighbors
  • Mobilian : The Indian lingua franca of colonial Louisiana /
  • Kenneth H. York
  • Henri de Tonti du Village des Chacta, 1702 : The beginning of the French alliance /
  • Patricia K. Galloway
  • An archaeological study of culture contact and change in the Natchez Bluffs region /
  • Ian W. Brown
  • French fortification at Fort Rosalie, Natchez /
  • Samuel Wilson, Jr.
  • The English Bend : Forgotten gateway to New Orleans /
  • Carl J. Ekberg.