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Recipient of a 2017 Book of the Year Award presented by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Shane K. Bernards Teche examines this legendary waterway of the American Deep South. Bernard delves into the bayous geologic formation as a vestige of the Mississippi and Red Rivers, its prehistoric Native American occupation, and its colonial settlement by French, Spanish, and, eventually, Anglo-American pioneers. He surveys the coming of indigo, cotton, and sugar; steam-powered sugar mills and riverboats; and the brutal institution of slavery. He also examines the impact of the Civil War on the Teche, depicting the running battles up and down the bayou and the sporadic gunboat duels, when ironclads clashed in the narrow confines of the dark, sluggish river.
Describing the misery of the postbellum era, Bernard reveals how epic floods, yellow fever, racial violence, and widespread poverty disrupted the lives of those who resided under the sprawling, moss-draped live oaks lining the Teches banks. Further, he chronicles the slow decline of the bayou, as the coming of the railroad, automobiles, and highways reduced its value as a means of travel. Finally, he considers modern efforts to redesign the Teche using dams, locks, levees, and other water-control measures. He examines the recent push to clean and revitalize the bayou after years of desecration by litter, pollutants, and invasive species. Illustrated with historic images and numerous maps, this book will be required reading for anyone seeking the colorful history of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast.
As a bonus, the second part of the book describes Bernards own canoe journey down the Teches 125-mile course. This modern personal account from the field reveals the current state of the bayou and the remarkable people who still live along its banks.

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Teche BOOKS BY SHANE K BERNARD The Cajuns Americanization of a People - photo 1
Teche
BOOKS BY SHANE K. BERNARD
The Cajuns: Americanization of a People
Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Readers History
(available in English and French editions)
Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues
Tabasco: An Illustrated History
Carl A Brasseaux and Donald W Davis series editors Teche A History of - photo 2
Carl A. Brasseaux and Donald W. Davis, series editors
Teche
A History of Louisianas Most Famous Bayou
Shane K. Bernard
This contribution has been supported with funding provided by the Louisiana Sea - photo 3
This contribution has been supported with funding provided by the Louisiana Sea - photo 4
This contribution has been supported with funding provided by the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program (LSG) under NOAA Award # NA14OAR4170099. Additional support is from the Louisiana Sea Grant Foundation. The funding support of LSG and NOAA is gratefully acknowledged, along with the matching support by LSU. Logo created by Louisiana Sea Grant College Program.
www.upress.state.ms.us
The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses.
Copyright 2016 by University Press of Mississippi
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Manufactured in the United States of America
First printing 2016
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bernard, Shane K., author.
Title: Teche : a history of Louisianas most famous bayou / Shane K. Bernard. Description: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2016. | Series: Americas Third Coast series | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016005806 (print) | LCCN 2016024272 (ebook) | ISBN 9781496809414 (hardback) | ISBN 9781496809421 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Teche, Bayou (La.)History. | Teche, Bayou (La.)Environmental conditions. | Bernard, Shane K.TravelLouisianaTeche, Bayou. | BISAC: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV). | TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues.
Classification: LCC F377.T4 B47 2016 (print) | LCC F377.T4 (ebook) | DDC 976.3/3dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016005806
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available
To Amy Lanon Bernard,
born and reared along the Teche;
in memory of Glenn R. Conrad,
historian of the Teche Country
There exists no known river on the globe with traits of exact analogy to the Teche; many of its features are peculiar to itself.... [A]nd for that simple reason, it is almost impossible to describe the Teche, in language conveying clear conceptions of the object; as there is no river with which it can be correctly compared.
William Darby,The Emigrants Guide to the Western and Southwestern States and Territories (1818)
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Bayou Teche flows for 125 miles through the south Louisiana regions known - photo 5
Bayou Teche flows for 125 miles through the south Louisiana regions known formerly as the Poste des Opelousas and the Poste des Attakapas.
The entire length of Bayou Teche from Port Barre in the north to Patterson in - photo 6
The entire length of Bayou Teche from Port Barre in the north to Patterson in the south.
The upper Teche from Port Barre downstream to Parks The Teche from Parks - photo 7
The upper Teche from Port Barre downstream to Parks.
The Teche from Parks downstream to Franklin The lower Teche from Charenton - photo 8
The Teche from Parks downstream to Franklin.
The lower Teche from Charenton downstream to Patterson below the Teche runs - photo 9
The lower Teche from Charenton downstream to Patterson; below the Teche runs the Lower Atchafalaya River.
Teche
Introduction
A south Louisiana native, I have lived most of my life only a short distance from Bayou Teche. For nearly the past two decades, in fact, I have resided only about three blocks from the bayou. After reading Mark Twains Life on the Mississippi a few years ago, it occurred to me to write a history of the Teche, because it seemed that I had practically in my own backyard a Mississippi River in miniature (as I describe the bayou elsewhere in this book). Decidedly in miniature: for while the Mississippi at New Orleans discharges about 600,000 cubic feet of water per second, the Teche near Jeanerette discharges only about 415 cubic feet per second. While the Mississippi River runs about 2,300 miles in length, the Teche runs only about 125 miles. And while the Mississippi spans 2,500 feet from bank to bank at the Crescent City, the Teche stretches only about 550 feet at its widest point (just above Patterson). For most of its course, however, the Teche runs much narrower: about 90 feet at Arnaudville, about 145 feet at New Iberia and St. Martinville, and about 225 feet at Franklin.
Despite its relative smallness, the Teche is a historically significant Louisiana waterwaymuch more significant than its size would at first suggest. William Darby noted this quality in 1817, when in his Geographical Description of the State of Louisiana he observed, This river... claims more notice from the political economist and geographer, than either its length or quantity of water would seem to justify. The reasons for this seemingly extravagant attention, according to Darby, were the bayous fortunate location and agreeable climate, combined with the amazing fertility and yet (at the time) relative cheapness of farmland along its banks. These qualities, he asserted, gave the Teche Country a decided preference over any other body of land of equal extent, west of the Mississippi. Moreover, the Teche offered itself to explorers, settlers, and travelers as a primitive superhighway leading deep into south Louisianas often isolated interiora role the bayou fulfilled until the advent of railroads and automobiles.
But the Teches significance also stems from something less tangible than geography or economics. For well over two centuries the bayou has intrigued locals and visitors alike, enticing them with a certain mystique, an intangible quality found less distinctly in rivals like the Lafourche, Ouachita, Tensas, Vermilion, Mermentau, and Sabine, among others. Louisianas first American governor, W. C. C. Claiborne, visited the Teche Country in 1806 and described it to President Thomas Jefferson as the most beautiful I ever beheld. Another nineteenth-century visitor declared, One may hunt the world over and never find another bayou Teche; it is a gem dropped in Paradise. [S]he is a Louisiana grande dame of superb attributes, penned New Orleans author Harnett T. Kane, who in almost haiku tone added, The Teche smiles and moves in serenity. This allure, partly aesthetic and partly mythic, explains why the Teche has been featured so often in novels, short stories, poems, songs, paintings, photographs, and films.
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