Somehow-I don't know how-we got lost on the swamplands, and, losing our bearings, we found ourselves presently within the Confederate lines.
"Recollections of a Varied Life"
George Cary Eggleston
Joseph Maillard did not own any stock in the Bayou Oil Company at the time your land was sold them by him, and he had no interest at all in the real estate concern that bought your St. Landry swamplands and made a fortune off them.
"The Mardi Gras Mystery"
H. Bedford-Jones
Here the stunted, unnatural growth of the swamplands had given away to the more normal vegetation of the jungle-clad lowlands.
"Voodoo Planet"
Andrew North