Sale!

Discovering Cat Island: Photographs and History

Amazon.com Price:  $37.86 (as of 23/03/2019 00:34 PST- Details)

Categories: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Description

Cat Island, just off the Mississippi Gulf Coast shoreline, has been home to one of the most most dramatic events and remarkable stories in the nation’s history. Even as a few of these stories are fact, others are colorful fables passed down through the ages with such conviction they have got change into true in the hearts and minds of many. Between fact and fiction is the undeniable reality: Cat Island is likely one of the most historically significant landmarks on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Featuring over 160 black-and-white photographs by Jason Taylor and a foreword by Mississippi’s Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, John Cuevas’s Discovering Cat Island guides readers through Cat Island with stories and histories of twenty-nine sites–both real and imagined–of the legendary barrier island. Originally owned by the Cuevas family as a part of a Spanish land grant to Juan de Cuevas in 1781, Cat Island boasts a colorful history that includes events related to the notorious pirate Jean Lafitte and the outlaw James Copeland, both of whom were thought to have buried their stolen treasure somewhere on the island; the Battle of New Orleans; and the War of 1812. The island served as one of the vital staging areas for the Seminole forced to abandon their homes and take part in the Trail of Tears. In the twentieth century, the island was once a convenient transfer point for gangsters and local bootleggers shipping booze right through Prohibition before becoming a US military training camp site right through World War II. In 1988, Cat Island became the location of the first oil drilling ever in the Mississippi Sound and in 2010 was once one of the vital islands devastated by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Related products

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Arts and Photography » History and Criticism » History » Americas » United States » State and Local » Discovering Cat Island: Photographs and History

Recent Products