DOWN AMONG THE SUGAR CANE

The Story of Louisiana Sugar Plantations and Their Railroads

By W. E. Butler

Signed And Inscribed By The Author On The Title Page

Moran Publishing Corporation 

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Copyright 1980 By W. E. Butler

Hardcover With Dust Jacket

266 Pages

8 1/2" X 11 1/4"

Good condition.  

The cover of the book is clean with no writing or markings.

The pages of the book are clean with no tears or creases.

The author's signature and inscription are written in ink on the

title page.  There is a name and a date written in ink on a blank

front end paper.  There is no other writing or markings.  The front

blank end paper has some tanning, as if from a newspaper clipping.

The dust jacket is bright and clean with no writing or markings.

There is light creasing around the top edge of the dust jacket

There are small, closed tears on the edge of the spine and on 

the fold of the back flap.  

FROM THE DUST JACKET FLAP:

In his Down Among The Sugar Cane, the author takes his readers back to 

the "golden era" with description of a lifestyle long gone but never forgotten.

From ten years of study and more than 100 personal interviews, he has compiled

histories of over forty of Louisiana's sugar plantations.  His portrayals of them 

include vestiges of by-gone days, including one-room plantation schoolhouses, 

quarterhouses, garconnieres, and those magnificent plantation mansions so much

a part of the heritage of Louisiana and the South.

Butler, himself a railroad buff, also gives detailed and technical accounts of each

railroad, its locomotives and other rolling stock.

In addition, more than 240 photographs tell a visual story about the plantations

and railroads as they were decades ago and as they are now.