by Ross Phares (Author), Jack Hastings (Illustrator)

"Phares' book is readable and interesting. It's well-researched but is not the totally academic sort of material". Nacogdoches (TX) Daily Sentinel

This is the biography of Louis Juchereau de St. Denis (1676-1744), who founded Natchitoches.

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The biography of Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, the man chosen by France to preside over the region of Texas and Louisiana during the early 1700s. One of the most notable figures in the early history of the Lower Mississippi Valley, St. Denis was an outstanding diplomat-soldier-administrator, successfully keeping the Spanish at bay, maintaining peace with the Indians of the area, and promoting international trade.