This authoritative and comprehensive guide to the records generated in the Louisiana Territory during the French and Spanish colonial periods is a major reference work. Beers traces all types of documents, including land, military, and ecclesiastical records; registers fo births, marriages, and burials; and private papers.

French and Spanish Records of Louisiana: A Bibliographical Guide to Archive and Manuscript Sources

History

Beers, Henry Putney

Americas

Louisiana State Univ Pr

Representing years of extensive research, this authoritative and comprehensive guide to the records generated in the Louisiana Territory during the French and Spanish colonial periods is a major reference work. Henry Putney Beers has painstakingly traced all types of documents, including land, military, and ecclesiastical records; registers of births, marriages, and burials; and private papers. Far more than a mere bibliographical listing, the book provides a complete history and description of these records and their past as well as current locations. When microfilms or other copies of particular bodies of documents exist, Beers describes the circumstances of reproduction and lists the locations of the copies.In the first part of the book, Beers presents a concise account of history and government in Louisiana, concentrating on the formation of a record-keeping bureaucracy. His detailed discussion includes information on available archival reproductions, documentary publications, and the nature and size of holdings in pertinent manuscript collections. Beers's examination of parish, land, and ecclesiastical records will serve as a vital resource. In the remainder of the book, he provides a similarly comprehensive treatment of the records of what are now Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, and Arkansas.Beers traces repositories for these documents far beyond regional confines, locating some in Europe, Canada, and Cuba. For the early migrants to the region -- the Acadians, for example -- he describes source materials at the migrants' points of origin. He also provides information on documents that have been lost or destroyed, an important service that will save researchers much time.French and Spanish Records of Louisiana will prove to be of enormous value to a wide range of people: professional historians, local history buffs, genealogists, lawyers, archivists, and librarians.

LSU Press

Spanish and Mexican Records of the American Southwest: A Bibliographical Guide to Archive and Manuscript Sources

University of Arizona Press

From the preface: "The challenge of presentation in this book has arisen in bringing together a historical account of the acquisition, preservation, and publication, by American institutions and individuals, of the original records created by Spanish and Mexican officials in what became the American Southwest, from the beginning of settlement in the early 1600s to the mid-nineteenth century. The historical treatment primarily concerns public records that have been preserved in official custody. Provincial records were accumulated at Santa Fe, San Antonio, and Monterey, but there were departmental headquarters, military headquarters, and many municipalities, presidios, and missions throughout the Southwest where records also accumulated. Descriptive information regarding the records, derived from a wide variety of finding aids and other publications, is included, and records of the Franciscan and Jesuit missions are also described."

A comprehensive account of American military history on the  western frontier from the end of the War of 1812 to the Mexican War, with  special material on how the military frontier was advanced, the  subjugation of the native Americans, the fortification of the vast area,  and the gradual focusing of attention on events in Texas. Includes a  valuable list of forts constructed between 1783 and 1846. Index and  bibliography. Reprint of the 1935 publication. 2006: 234 pages. Softcover.  (Scholar's Bookshelf)

The Western Military Frontier, 1815-1846 (Perspectives in American history ; no. 35)

Porcupine Press

Bibliographies in American History, 1942-1978: Guide to Materials for Research

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Carrollton Pr

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