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Tables of Contents for Inventing New Orleans
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowlegments
ix
Introduction: The Man Who Invented New Orleans
xi
The Outsider as Insider: Impressions
3
95
Memphis to New Orleans
3
3
At the Gate of the Tropics
6
7
The City of the South
13
5
The Streets
18
4
The French Market
22
16
Los Criollos
30
8
New Orleans in Wet Weather
38
4
New Orleans Letter
42
5
New Orleans in Carnival Garb
47
2
The Last of the New Orleans Fencing Masters
49
9
Under the Oaks
58
4
Executions
62
3
The Creole Doctor: Some Curiosities of Medicine in Louisiana
65
5
The Death of Marie Laveau
70
2
St. John's Eve---Voudouism
72
5
The Last of the Voudoos
77
5
The Garden of Paradise
82
1
Saint Malo: A Lacustrine Village in Louisiana
83
7
Rod and Gun
90
8
From the Land of Dreams: Sketches
98
61
Voices of Dawn
98
2
Char-Coal
100
1
The Flower Sellers
101
1
Cakes and Candy
102
1
Washerwomen
103
3
Des Perches
104
2
Shine?
106
1
The Man with the Small Electric Machine
106
1
Under the Electric Light
107
1
Mosquitoes
108
2
The Festive
110
1
The Wolfish Dog
111
1
The Go-at
111
2
The Alligators
113
1
Wet Enough For You?
114
1
Web-Footed
115
1
A Creole Type
115
3
Complaint of a Creole Boarding-House Keeper
118
1
The Boarder's Reply
119
2
A Kentucky Colonel Renting Rooms
121
1
The Restless Boarder
122
1
Furnished Rooms
123
1
Ghosteses
124
1
A Creole Journal
125
1
Ultra-Canal
126
2
An Ultra-Canal Talk
128
1
Why Crabs Are Boiled Alive
129
1
Creole Servant Girls
130
1
The Creole Character
131
1
All Saints!
132
1
Does Climate Affect the Character of People?
133
1
The City of Dreams
134
2
A Dream of Kites
136
2
The Tale of a Fan
138
1
Les Coulisses (The French Opera)
139
3
French Opera
142
1
Down Among the Dives: A Midnight Sketch
142
2
Fire!
144
1
That Piano Organ
145
1
A Creole Courtyard
146
1
The Accursed Fig Tree
147
2
Home
149
3
A Visitor
152
2
Opening Oysters
154
1
By the Murmuring Waves
155
1
Spanish Moss
156
1
The Lord Sends Trials and Tribulations to Strengthen and Pacify Our Hearts
157
1
Ye Pilot
157
2
Of Vices and Virtues: Editorials
159
32
Latin and Anglo-Saxon
159
2
French in Louisiana
161
1
Jewish Emigrants for Louisiana
162
2
Quack! Quack!
164
1
The Opium Dens
165
4
Scenes de la Vie des Hoodlums
166
3
Blackmailing
169
1
The Indignant Dead
170
2
Improved Police Ideas
172
1
Coming Events Cast Their Shadow Before
172
1
A Visit to New Orleans
173
2
Whited Sepulchres
175
1
Old-Fashioned Houses
176
5
La Douane
179
2
The Haunted and the Haunters
181
1
The Unspeakable Velocipede
182
2
The Organ Grinder
184
2
The Puller of Noses
186
1
The Glamour of New Orleans
187
1
The Dawn of the Carnival
188
1
The Pelican's Ghost
189
2
Reports from the Field: Longer Studies
191
34
La Cuisine Creole
191
8
Gombo Zhebes: Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, Selected from Six Creole Dialects
199
26
Notes on Sources
225