La Belle, the Ship That Changed History /

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After two decades of searching for La Salle's lost ship La Belle, Texas Historical Commission (THC) divers in 1995 located a shipwreck containing historic artifacts of European origin in the silty bottom of Matagorda Bay, off the coast of Texas. The first cannon lifted from the waters bore late...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
Other Authors: Bruseth, James E., Barr, Juliana
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: College Station, Tex. : Published for the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum by Texas A & M University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
La Salle, Robert Cavelier, > sieur de, > 1643-1687.
La Salle, Robert Cavelier, > sieur de, > 1643-1687 > Exhibitions.
La Belle (Frigate)
La Belle (Frigate) > Exhibitions.
Underwater archaeology.
Shipwrecks.
Antiquities.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Naufrages > Texas > Matagorda, Baie de > Expositions.
Archeologie sous-marine > Texas > Matagorda, Baie de > Expositions.
Shipwrecks > Texas > Matagorda Bay > Exhibitions.
Underwater archaeology > Texas > Matagorda Bay > Exhibitions.
Gulf of Mexico > Matagorda Bay.
Matagorda Bay (Tex.) > Antiquities > Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Mark Wolfe
  • Foreword / Clay Johnson
  • Introduction / Joan Marshall and David Denney
  • European competition for the New World / Jesús F. de la Teja
  • La Salle's 1684 expedition / William C. Foster
  • Native Americans / Juliana Barr
  • Life and death at Matagorda Bay / Jeffrey Durst and James E. Bruseth
  • Discovery, excavation, and preservation of La Belle / James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner
  • The colony kit / James E. Bruseth.

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