Mobile of the Five Flags: The Story of the River Basin and Coast About Mobile From the Earliest Times to the Present. E-book. Formato PDF Peter J. Hamilton   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The book was undertaken at the request of the Board Of School Commissioners of Mobile County for use in the public schools, but I have endeavored to make its scope wide enough for general use also, since it is the only work covering the subject from the beginning. Many things and many men are omitted whom I would like to mention; but from the necessity of the case I have had to make a selection from the mass of facts available, and I have had to omit much that I would like to use. This applies especially to the period since the War, which is one of great economic interest, and yet difficult to handle now because the events and people are so close to us. For the last two decades I have tried to give tendencies rather than detailed facts. I have aimed at clearness rather than ornament in the style and the facts I hope are told so as to be readily under stood. With this object the book is divided into sections.

The Private Life of Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur De Bienville: I. A Colonial Letter; II. Reminiscences; III. The Mississippi Bubble; IV. In the Paris of Louis XV; V. A French Will; Vi; Montmartre. E-book. Formato PDF Peter J. Hamilton   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

An attempt has here been made to picture some of the scenes in the private life of the founder of Mobile, New Orleans. Natchez, and the explorer of the Mississippi Valley. His public career is almost the history of the country, and is found in Miss Grace Kings Life of Bienville; but the movement to erect a statue of him has brought the wish to picture the man himself. The facts now given are authentic. His letter and will are given Jodoin and Vincents Longueuil. I have transcripts of his dispatches, and much in the way of maps and otherwise is in my Colonial Mobile. If imagination has aided in the coloring, it is hoped that it is the historic imagination which restores rather than creates.