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- 1 2 Asbury, Herbert. The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld. New York: Alfred K. Knopf, 1936. (pg. 159, 160, 166-167)
- ↑ Field, Martha R. Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. (pg. 20-21, 205) ISBN 1-57806-826-6
- ↑ Davis, William C. Lone Star Rising: The Revolutionary Birth of the Texas Republic. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004. (pg. 34-35) ISBN 0-684-86510-6
- ↑ Davis, William C. The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Inc., 2005. (pg. 420) ISBN 0-15-603259-7
