Full Text Books

Click on the links below to access the MSU Archives' collection of full-text books about Southwest Louisiana History. After you click on the link, you can read the entire book or use your browser's "find" function (Control-F) to search for a term. You can also search throughout all the full-text books and the entire McNeese Archives website here:

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Agriculture in Southwest Louisiana by Henry G. Chalkley, Jr.

Allen Parish by John Berton Gremillion
 

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Beacons in the Night: Lighthouses of the Gulf by Shirley Haupt

Beauregard Parish by John Berton Gremillion

A Brief History of Calcasieu Parish by Allie Ellender

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Calcasieu Parish by John Berton Gremillion

Cameron Parish by John Berton Gremillion

Cameron's Gold: Gas, Oil and Wildlife by Ann W. Diamond

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The Development of Public Education in Beauregard Parish by Jennings B. Pugh

The Development of the Rice Industry in the Lake Charles District  by Alice Place Levee

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Early Annals of Beauregard Parish by Mrs. Lether Edward Frazar

Early Calcasieu Doctors 1850-1912 by Maude Reid

Early Exploration And Settlement Of The Lower Calcasieu Watershed by Tom Watson 

East of the Sabine: A History of Beauregard Parish by Robert Jones

The Economic and Social Development of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, 1840-1912 by Grace Ulmer

The Economic Development of Southwest Louisiana, 1865-1900 by Dr. Donald J. Millet, Sr.

The Economic History of the Long-Bell Lumber Company by Helene King

An Episode from the Aftermath of Reconstruction: The Calcasieu Log War, 1877-1879 by Tom Watson

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Facts Little Known: Southwest Louisiana (S. L. Cary)

The First Hundred Years: 1882-1982 The Centennial of Catholic Education in "Imperial" Calcasieu edited by Donald J. Millet, Sr. and Elaine B. Bodin

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The Geography of Cameron Parish by Archie S. Hollister

Green House Report by Tom Watson

The Growth and Development of the Lake Charles School System, 1920-1940 by W. O. Boston

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An Historical Study of the Negro Schools of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, 1888-1938 by Ralph Clifton Reynaud

The History of Cantonment Atkinson compiled by Helen Wentz

The History of Education in Calcasieu Parish by Irman D. Bayne

The History of Education in Lake Charles from 1907-1937 by Inez Agnes Schindler

The History of Education in Lake Charles Prior to 1907 by Leila Aline Scarlett

The History of Hackberry, Louisiana by Velma Lowery

The History of Jennings, Louisiana by Henry LeRoy Riser

The History of Lake Charles by Stewart Alfred Ferguson

The History of Louisiana and the Neutral Territory by Sam H. Jones

The History of Public Education in Cameron Parish by Wilmer R. Smith

A History of the Rice Industry of Southwestern Louisiana by Lawson P. Babineaux, Jr.

The History of the Theatre in Lake Charles, Louisiana from 1920 to 1950 by Patsy Ruth Heidt

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The Industrial Development of Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1920-1950 by Bernard H. Lane

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Jefferson Davis Parish by John Berton Gremillion

Journey Through Time: Southwest Louisiana The Way We Were by Shirley Haupt

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Lake Charles Centennial Celebration 1867-1967 edited by Donald J. Millet

Lake Charles, Louisiana: Its Industrial and Commercial Advantages and the Agricultural Resources of Calcasieu Parish issued by the Passenger Department of the Southern Pacific Sunset Route

Lake Charles Street Names by Lloyd G. Barras

Leaves from the Diary of Louise: A Glimpse of the Social Life of Lake Charles, Louisiana 1859-1900 compiled by George Ann Benoit

The Life and Services to Public Education of John McNeese by Theodore John Ratliff

Louisiana for the Settler: Southwest Louisiana, Its Agricultural and Industrial Developments and its Potential Wealth
Along Southern Pacific Lines

Lumbering in Southwest Louisiana by George A. Stokes

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McNeese State University, 1939-1987: A Chronicle by Joe Gray Taylor

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A Narrative History of the Lake Charles Little Theatre Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1927-1982 by Nancy Martin Key


Niblett's Bluff in the War Between the States by Michael Dan Jones

Niblett's Bluff Wartime Timeline by Michael Dan Jones

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The Political Development of the City of Lake Charles, 1890-1930 by Robert Brantley Cagle, Jr.

Port of Lake Charles: A Vision for the Future by Shirley Haupt

The Public Career of Arsene P. Pujo, Louisiana Congressman, 1903-1913 by James Carroll Beam

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Redbones in the Neutral Strip or No Man's Land (The Westport Fight Between Whites and Redbones) by Webster Talma Crawford

Rigmaiden Diaries by Thomas Rigmaiden (courtesy of the LAGenWeb Archives)

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Silver Jubilee History of the Catholic Diocese of Lake Charles by Truman Stacey

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical (Calcasieu Parish and Cameron Parish) by William Henry Perrin

Southwest Louisiana: It’s Agricultural and Industrial Developments and its Potential Wealth Along Southern Pacific Lines

Southwest Louisiana Up To Date: Omaha Edition, 1899 (Southwestern Louisiana on the Line of the Southern Pacific), S. L. Cary

A Study of Kinder, Louisiana by Emily Shorts

The Sulphur Industry of Calcasieu Parish by Louis August Lynn

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Three Decades of Public Education in Jefferson Davis Parish from 1913-1940 by Luke Harry Richard

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Victory at Calcasieu Pass by Michael Dan Jones
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