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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Primary Sources

1. Manuscript Materials

Dewitt, Arkansas. Arkansas County Courthouse. Index to Book of Records (Deeds, Commissions, Indentures), Louisiana Territory, District of Arkansas, Aug. 3, 1808-Dec. 23, 1809.

Little Rock, Arkansas. Arkansas History Commission. Scull Papers. Scull & Co. with Daniel Mooney, Apr. 10, 1809.

Washington D.C. Library of Congress. Archivo General de Indias. Papeles de Cuba. Legajo 107. Seville, Spain. Microfilm.

De la Villebeuvre, Juan, to B. de Gálvez, Dec. 12, 1779.
De Villars, Luis, to E. Miró, Jan. 12, 1783.
De Villiers, B. Last Will and Testament. May 26, 1782.
Dubreuil, Jacobo. Receipt. Jan. 7, 1783.
Dubreuil, J., to E. Miró, Jan. 11, 1783.
Dubreuil, J., to E. Miró, Jan. 17, 1783.
Dubreuil, J., to B. Miró, Feb. 18, 1783.
Dubreuil, J., to B. Miró, Feb. 21, 1783.
Dubreuil, J., to B. Miró, Mar. 1, 1783.
Dubreuil, J., to B. Miró, Mar. 26, 1783.
Dubreuil, J., to B. Miró May 5, 1783.
Dubreuil, J., to E. Miró, May 22, 1783.
Dubreuil, J., to E. Miró, Aug. 26, 1783.
Fort Carlos III, Apr. 17, 1784, Folio I.
Miró, Estevan, to J. Dubreuil, Feb. 5, 1783.
Orieta, Joseph to Governor Unzaga, July 14, 1774.

______. National Archives. Record Group 75. Letter Book, Arkansas Trading House. Treat, Samuel, to John Mason, Sept. 10, 1810.

______. Record Group 107. Records of the Secretary of War, Unregistered Letters Received. “Map of Fort at Post of Arkansas, 1807.”

 

2. Published Documents

“Act of Possession of East Bank of the Mississippi River North of the District of Natchez.” In Spain in the Mississippi Valley 1:401.

Colbert, James L., to Governor of Louisiana, May 15, 1782. In Houck, Spanish Regime in Missouri 1:219.

______. To J. Dubreuil Aug. 3, 1783. In “Notes and Documents,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 20, no. 4:545—46.

Declaration of Madame Cruzat, May 30, 1782, in Spanish Regime in Missouri 1:229.

Declaration of Malcom Clark, May 13, 1783. In D. C. Corbitt, “Spanish Claims to Mississippi.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 24.

Declarations of Picoté de Belestre, Francisco Vallé, and Silbestre Labadie, July 5 and 8, 1782. In Spain in the Mississippi Valley 2:34-39.

Declaration of Silbestre Labadie, July 5, 1782. In Spain in the Mississippi Valley 2:21-34.

De Villiers, B., to B. de Gálvez, July 11, 1781. In Spain in the Mississippi Valley 1:429-31.

Dubreuil, J., to James L. Colbert, undated. In “Notes and Documents, Fort Charles III, Arkansas, Reports for the Year 1783 by Jacobo Dubreuil, Commandant.” Translated and edited by Anna Lewis. Mississippi Valley Historical Review 20, no, 4:545.

Fort Carlos III, Apr. 17, 1784. Folio VII. In “Notes and Documents.”

Houck, Louis, ed, The Spanish Regime in Missouri 2 vols. Chicago, 1909.

Kinniard, Lawrence, ed. Spain in the Mississippi Valley, 1765-1794 3 pts. Washington, 1946.

Lewis, Anna, ed. and trans. “An Attack Upon the Arkansas Post, 1783.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 2, no. 3.

Miró, Estevan. Interrogation of Madame Cruzat. In Houck, Spanish Regime in Missouri 1:222-29.

“Parole of Honour, M 15, 1782.” In Houck, Spanish Regime in Missouri 1:220.

 

3. Travel Accounts

Adair, James. The History of the American Indians. London, 1775.

Bartram, William. Travels Through North and South Carolina, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Nuscogules or Creek Confederation and the Country of the Choctaws. Philadelphia, 1791.

Collot, Victor. A Journey in North America. 2 vols. Paris, 1826.

Flint, Timothy. Recollections of the Last Ten Years. Boston, 1826.

Hutchins, Thomas. Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West Florida. Philadelphia, 1784.

Nuttall, Thomas. Travels in the Arkansas Territory, 1819. Edited by Reuben C. Thwaites. Cleveland, 1905.

Perrin du Luc, Francois. “Travels Through the Two Louisianas and Among the Savage Nations of the Missouri.” In A Collection of Modern and Contemporary Voyages and Travels. vol. 6. London, 1807.

Pittman, Philip. The Present State of the European Settlements on the Mississippi, With a Geographic Description of that River illustrated by Plans and Draughts, with Introduction, Notes, and Index by Frank H. Hodder. Cleveland, 1906.

Pope, William E. Early Days in Arkansas, Being the Most Part Personal Recollections of an Old Settler. Little Rock, 1895.

Romans, Bernard. A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida. Gainesville, 1969.

 

Secondary Sources

1. Biographies

Caughey, John W. Bernardo de Gálvez in Louisiana, 1776-1783. Berkeley, 1934.

_________. McGillivray of the Creeks. Norman, 1938.

 

2. Monographs

Brinckerhoff, Sidney B., and Chamberlain, Pierce A. Spanish Military Weapons in Colonial America, 1700-1821. Harrisburg, 1972.

Claiborne, J. F. H. Mississippi as a Province, Territory and State, with Biographical Notices of Eminent Citizens. Jackson, 1880.

Fundaburk, Emma Lila. Southeastern Indians: Life Portraits, A Catalogue of Pictures, 1564-1860. Luverne, Ala., 1958.

Gibson, Arrell M. The Chickasaws. Norman, 1971.

Nasatir, Abraham. Spanish War Vessels on the Mississippi, 1792-1796. New Haven, 1968.

Peterson, Harold L. The Book of The Continental Soldier. Harrisburg, 1968.

Swanton, John R. The Indians of the Southeastern United States. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 137. Washington, 1946.

The American Heritage Book of Great Historic Places. New York, 1957.

The American Heritage Book of the Revolution. New York, 1958.

The American Heritage Book of Indians. New York, 1961.

Wilson, Everett B. Early Southern Towns. South Brunswick, N.J., 1967.

 

3. Articles in Journals

Braden, Guy. “The Colberts and the Chickasaw Nation.” The Tennessee Historical Quarterly 17, no. 3.

Caughey, John. “The Natehez Rebellion of 1781 and Its Aftermath.” The Louisiana Historical Quarterly 16, no. 1.

__________ “Willing’s Expedition Down the Mississippi, 1778.” The Louisiana Historical Quarterly 15, no. 1.

Corbitt, D. C. “James Colbert and the Spanish Claims to the East Bank of the Mississippi.” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 24, no. 4.

Faye, Stanley. “The Arkansas Post of Louisiana: Spanish Dominion.” The Louisiana Historical Quarterly 27, no. 3.

Haarmann, Albert W. “The Spanish Conquest of British West Florida, 1779-1781 The Florida Historical Quarterly 39, no. 2.

Holmes, Jack D. L. “A Spanish Province 1779-1798.” In A History of Mississippi, vol. 1. Edited by Richard A. McLemore. 2 vols. Hattiesburg, 1973.

Lull, Francisco Ferrer, and Hefter, J. “The Spanish Louisiana Regiment in the Floridas 1779-1781.” Military Collector and Historian: Journal of the Company of Military Historians 16, no. 3.

 

4. National Park Service Studies

Mattison, Ray. “Report on the Historical Investigations of Arkansas Post, Arkansas.” National Park Service, 1957.

 

5. Letters and Interviews

Huggins, D. L,, to E. Bearss, June 13, 1974.

Mesdames Pollard, J. S., S. E. Carroll, and B. Brazil, to J. Rumburg, undated. Files Arkansas Post National Memorial.

 

6. Newspapers

Arkansas Gazette, Nov. 20, 1819.

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