No other name is more associated with the Gulf Coast than that of privateer, Jean Laffite.
The author traces Laffite\'s life from birth to his days at Barataria and to his final years on Galveston and Mugeres Islands..
He smuggled slaves with Jim Bowie and fought beside Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans.
Tales of adventures, fights, and buried treasure have been told, fictionalized, and made into movies.
He has been called everything from a blood-thirsty pirate to a gentleman corsair.
No other name is more associated with the Gulf Coast than that of privateer, Jean Laffite