Survivor Antoine "Neat" Galvez, is born in 1858 at Barataria Bay, Louisiana. He lives 101 years of brutal survival: barely literate, losing his father at age 14, witnessing the ravages of the War Between the States on his bayou home and surroundings and the crushing humiliation of 'reconstruction" when Louisiana was the only state in the South still occupied by federal troops.
At age 17, he kills a prominent carpetbagger in a gunfight at a Mardi Gras ball, hides out in the swamp for a year before a poisonous snakebite forces him into the hands of the black sheriff. He is tried and...
Survivor Antoine "Neat" Galvez, is born in 1858 at Barataria Bay, Louisiana. He lives 101 years of brutal survival: barely literate, losing his fa...
The unreported and unrecorded experiences of a Louisiana state legislator. A reader will get an unfiltered look behind the scenes. "This book plows rich new ground. The Legislature is a great stage and seldom has anyone reported so adeptly on the histrionics and humor of it. We see it through the perceptive eyes of Ron Gomez, a skilled journalist who later served honorably and effectively in the Louisiana House of Representatives. If offers a unique double-barreled perspective." "Bob Hamm Author, humorist, and editorial writer for the Lafayette Advertiser" "All your suspicions or concepts of...
The unreported and unrecorded experiences of a Louisiana state legislator. A reader will get an unfiltered look behind the scenes. "This book plows ri...
