Dr. John Mack Faragher
Wrote an important history of the Acadians.
Inducted on March 25, 2005
John Mack Faragher is the author of many history books including “A Great and Noble Scheme” on the Acadian expulsion.
His books include Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979); Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986); Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992); The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000), with Robert V. Hine; A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (2005); and Frontiers: A Short History of the American West (2007), with Robert V. Hine. He teaches the history of the American West and directs the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders.
Pictured (L to R) Dr. Carl Brasseaux, UL Lafayette History Professor and Director of the Center of Louisiana Studies, Dr. John Mack Faragher, and Warren A. Perrin, President of CODOFIL .
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