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BIBLIOGRAPHY

This bibliography lists a small portion of the recommended materials anyone seriously wishing to research the Laffite story. The list below is a continuation of book titles compiled by Laffite Society member Robert Vogel, "Jean Laffite in American Literature; A Check List of Published Works Through 1958", which was published in two parts in The Laffite Society Chronicles. Part I of II - The Nineteenth Century was included in Volume II, Number 2 (July, 1996) and Part II of II - The Twentieth Century was included in Volume III, Number 1 (January, 1997).

Books
Year	Title	Author	Publisher/Source	Notes
1961	The Baratarians and the Battle of New Orleans	Jane Lucas DeGrummond	Louisiana State University Press.	This book examines of the role Jean Laffite and Pierre Laffite and their cohorts aiding the efforts of General Andrew Jackson against the British army at the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815.
1994	Journal of Jean Laffite	Jean Laffite	Dogwood Press.	A facsimile of the Journal as published by John A. Laffite in 1958 (Vantage Press). The original manuscript is in the collection at the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center in Liberty, Texas.
1996	Jean Laffite, Prince of Pirates	Jack C. Ramsay, Jr	Eakin Press, Austin.	The first biography about Jean Laffite written in many years, Ramsay tells the story of Laffite's life from Barataria to Galveston and Mugeres Islands.
1999	The Memoirs of Jean Laffite	Jean Laffite, (translated by Gene Marshall)	Xlibris Corp.	The most recent translation of the Journal of Jean Lafitte.
2001	Privateers of the Gulf	Stanley Faye	Dogwood Press.	The account of Jean and Pierre Laffite and their relations with the new government of Louisiana, the Spanish who still dominated the area outside the U.S., the Mexican Revolution and the government in Washington. After many years of research Faye wrote the manuscript in 1928 and failing to get it published tried to get his friend J. Frank Dobie, to assist in getting it accepted. It was never published and the Dobie trust gave the manuscript to the University of Texas where it has remained.
2003	French in Texas	Francois Lagarde	University of Texas Press.	This contains article "French Pirates and Privateers in Texas" by Laffite Society member R. Dale Olson. A collection of articles detailing the lasting contributions to Texas history and culture by French settlers.
2005	The Pirates Laffite, The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf	William C. Davis	Harcourt Press.	A well researched tale of piracy in New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico in the early years of the United States.
2006	The Pirates Laffite	Rubio Mane		translated from the original Spanish by Laffite Society member, Jeff Modzelewski. The only known English translation of Mane's 1938 book, Los Pirates Lafitte.
2007	Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans	Winston Groom	Knopf Publishers	A fast-paced retelling of one of the greatest battles fought on the North American continent and of Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite, who joined forces to repel the British invasion of New Orleans in January 1815.
2007	Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans	Winston Groom	Knopf Publishers	A fast-paced retelling of one of the greatest battles fought on the North American continent and of Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite, who joined forces to repel the British invasion of New Orleans in January 1815.
	Filibusters, Pirates, and Privateers	Jean L. Epperson	The Liberty County Texas Historical Commission

 

Articles
Title	Author	Publisher/Source
Flags Flown at Galveston by the Corsairs and Filibusters	Epperson, Jean L.	The Laffite Chronicles, V, No. 1 (February, 1999).
Jean Laffite and the Schooner Pegasus	Epperson, Jean L.	The Laffite Society Chronicles, VI, Number 1, (February, 2000)
Mysterious Painting in the Cabildo	Epperson, Jean L.	The Laffite Society Chronicles, VIII, No. 2 (October, 2000), pp. 8-10.
The Great Stoke of Pierre Laffite	Faye, Stanley	The Louisiana History Quarterly, Vol. 23, No., 3 (July, 1940), pp. 733-826
The Great Stroke of Stanley Faye	Marler, Don C	The Laffite Chronicles, VIII, No. 1, (February, 2002), pp. 13-16.
Graphic Images of Jean Laffite	Olson, R. Dale and Diane	The Laffite Society Chronicles, II, Number 2 (July, 1996)
Laffite, Brothers & Co., Buccaneers, or the Impossible Quest	Suduiraut, Bertrand Guillot	Généalogie et Historie de la Caraibe. No. 82 (May 1996), pp., 1618-1620). Also published in The Laffite Society Chronicles, Vol. III, Number 1(January, 1997)
Pierre and Jean Laffite: Going to the Primary Sources	Vogel, Robert C.	The Laffite Chronicles. VII, No. 2 (October, 2001), pp. 7-12.
Who Were These Guys? Some of the Lesser Characters in the Story of the Laffites	Vogel, Robert C.	he Laffite Chronicles, IX, No. 1 (February, 2003), pp. 6-14.