Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by George Catlin, Thomas Cole and Edgar Degas. Seven true stories out of Louisiana archives and private papers - a German immigrant girl sold into slavery, a haunted house on Royal Street, a young woman's diary of the war - assembled by the writer who put New Orleans on the literary map and was driven out of the city for his politics. This edition carries 56 plates after Degas, Catlin and West, with four in-text illustrations restored and coloured.