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Wars Within Wars - Borrowed Guns
France built the opposite of Carolina. Where the English ran their frontier through free-lance traders who cheated and enslaved the nations they lived among, the French in Louisiana learned the languages, kept the sacred calumet, and held their thousand-mile colony together with alliances instead of arms — a wiser empire, run by Bienville, the man who studied the people he could not afford to lose. This episode follows that model to the place it broke: the Natchez, the last sun-worshipping kingdom of the Mississippi, and the chronicle of Le Page du Pratz, who lived among them and recorded a…
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