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The Fort St. Louis exhibit is the work of many and is based on decades of archival and archeological research. Historian Robert Weddle wrote the historic background sections of the exhibit. TBH editor Susan Dial, working in consultation with Texas Historical Commission archeologists Jim Bruseth and Jeff Durst, created the exhibit and wrote the archeology sections. TBH Education Consultant Carol Schlenk wrote the teacher’s lesson. TBH web developer Heather Smith developed the exhibit for the web. Archeologist Maureen Brown assisted with image acquisition and contributed to the section on ceramic artifacts. Images, interactives, and audio unless specified otherwise, were provided courtesy of the Texas Historical Commission. The Fort St. Louis exhibit was supported by grants from the Texas Preservation Trust Fund (Texas Historical Commission), the Educational Foundation of America, the National Endowment for the Humanities, William P. Clements Foundation, Summerlee Foundation, College of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas at Austin, and donations from the Texas Archeological Society, Southern Texas Archaeological Society, Council of Texas Archeologists, Travis County Archeological Society, and many individuals. The Museum of the Coastal Bend in Victoria, Texas, also served as a partner in this effort. The museum staff and volunteers, including Director Sue Prudhomme, Bob Shook, and Bill Birmingham, provided information, images, and inspiration through their creative exhibits on Fort St. Louis. Dozens of museum volunteers put in hundreds of hours working during THC excavations at the site and in processing artifacts at Victoria College. Robert S. Weddle, a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, has been recognized by King Juan Carlos II of Spain with the Order of Isabel la Católica for his writing on Spain's history in North America, much of it based on his research in the principal archives of Spain. A graduate of Texas Tech University and a former newspaper journalist, Weddle is a recognized authority on La Salle. He is the prize-winning author of more than a dozen books on the French and Spanish colonial experience in Texas and the Gulf region, the most recent being The Wrecking of La Salle's Ship Aimable and the Trial of Claude Aigron (University of Texas Press, 2009). Weddle retired in 1981 to his Fannin County farm, near his birthplace, where he still lives. Dr. Jim Bruseth serves as Director of the Archeology Division at the Texas Historical Commission and Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer. He received his B.S. from the University of New Orleans, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University. He has been active in Texas archeology for more than 33 years, specializing in Native American, French colonial and Spanish colonial archeology. Bruseth was project director of the excavation and recovery of La Belle and also directed the archeological excavation of La Salle’s Fort St. Louis colony. Jeff Durst has a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a master's degree in Anthropology from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is currently working on his doctoral degree at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been actively employed in archeology for the past 15 years, most recently as assistant project director and then field director of the Fort St. Louis Archeological Project.
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Print SourcesBolton, Herbert E. Bolton, Herbert E. (Editor) Bruseth , James, Jeffrey Durst and Kathleen Gilmore Bruseth, James E., Jeffery J. Durst, Tiffany Osburn, Kathleen Gilmore, Kay Hindes, Nancy Reese, Barbara Meissner, and Mike Davis Bruseth, James E., William T. Pierson, and Ross M. Johnson Bruseth, James E., and Toni S. Turner Davis, Mike and Jim Bruseth De León, Alonso, et al. De León, Alonso Gilmore, Kathleen 1986 La Salle's Fort St. Louis in Texas. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 55: 61-72. 2005 People of La Salle's Last Expedition. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 76:107-119. 2007 French Ceramics from the Keeran Site, 41VT4: 1950 Excavations. In French Colonial Pottery: An International Conference edited by George Avery, pp. 297-308. Northwestern State University Press, Nachitoches, Louisiana. Jackson, Jack, Robert S. Weddle, and Winston DeVille
Joutel, Henri , Johanna S. Warren (Translator), William C. Foster (Editor) Peña, Juan Antonio de la Reese, Nancy Weddle, Robert S. 1973 Wilderness Manhunt: The Spanish Search for La Salle. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. 1991 The French Thorn: Rival Explorers in the Spanish Sea, 1682-1762. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. 1992 Spanish Exploration of the Texas Coast, 1519-1800. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 63: 99-122. 2001 The Wreck of the Belle, the Ruin of La Salle. Number 48: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University Press, College Station. 2009 The Wrecking of La Salle's Ship Aimable and the Trial of Claude Aigron. University of Texas Press, Austin. Weddle, Robert S. (Editor) Itinerary of the De Leon Expedition of 1689 West, Elizabeth Howard
Wheat-Stranahan, Pam LinksTo read more online about Fort St. Louis and the excavations, explore the links below. La Salle Archeology Projects and Fort St. Louis web page, Texas Historical Commission |
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