CARTER, HODDING, - John Law Wasn'T So Wrong The Story of Louisiana's Horn Of Plenty.

Baton Rouge, La: Esso Standard Oil Co. 1952. Large paperback, illustrated with a lot of black and white photographs. There is a very small amount of wear to the corners and spine edges; spine is slightly sunned. John Law was a brilliant Scotsman who controlled the French treasury for Louis XV, Law has been called the first modern speculator. His colonial enterprise did nothing to enrich his followers, but was a great boost to the colonization of Louisiana. B&W Photographs; 9" x 6 1/2"; 105 pages. VG+/NONE.