CHAPTER V
[1]Dallas Herald, as quoted in The Standard, February 24, 1855.
[2]Dallas Herald, as quoted in the Clarksville Standard, February 24, 1855.
[3]In preface of Considerant, The Great West.
[4]Ibid.
[5]Savardan, op. cit., 37-38; the numbers really indicate livres instead of pounds.
[6]The account of Savardan’s trip and the others mentioned above are found in Savardan, Un Naufrage au Texas, chap. iv.
[7]Savardan, op. cit., 201-203.
[8]Ibid., chap. iv.
[9]Samuel W. Geiser, “Naturalists of the Frontier,” in Southwest Review, October, 1928-July, 1929, XIV, No. 3, 331. An adequate biography of Julien Reverchon is given in this article by Mr. Geiser.
[10]Ibid. See also Preston Sneed, “Letter signed by Napoleon is in Dallas,” in Dallas News, Sunday, May 8, 1927.
[11]I have been able to locate only a few detached pages of his diary. These pages were in the possession of a grandson of the La Notte family or Lanotte.
[12]Esubia Lutz, “Almost Utopia,” in Southwest Review (October, 1928-July, 1929), Vol. XIV, No. 3, 321-330. Since writing this article Germain Santerre has died. See also George H. Santerre, White Cliffs of Dallas, the Story of La Reunion, The Old French Colony, Dallas, 1955, 137-142.
[13]Ellis W. Schuler, “The Geology of Dallas County,” in University of Texas Bulletin, No. 1818, March 25, 1918.
[14]See [Appendix A] for a partial list of the colonists and see also Eloise Santerre, Réunion, a Translation of Dr. Savardan’s Un Naufrage au Texas.
[15]Texas State Gazette, February 10, 1855.
[16]The list of names contained in [Appendix A] was collected from articles, papers, and books written concerning the colony and does not represent any special investigation in unprinted sources. “The story of Old French Town” in the Dallas News, March 26, 1922; and also Santerre, op. cit., are perhaps the best sources available for names.