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.