La Belle : the ship that changed history /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
Other Authors:	Bruseth, James E., Barr, Juliana
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	College Station : Published for the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum by Texas A&M University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	La Salle, Robert Cavelier, > sieur de, > 1643-1687 > Exhibitions. La Belle (Frigate) > Exhibitions. Shipwrecks > Texas > Matagorda Bay > Exhibitions. Underwater archaeology > Texas > Matagorda Bay > Exhibitions. Matagorda Bay (Tex.) > Antiquities > Exhibitions.

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.