Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana
— — From University Press of Mississippi (2023)
In Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace the trajectory of people’s lives in the Bayou State. His account confronts the challenging environmental record evident in Louisiana’s landscapes. LeJeune also celebrates and memorializes traditions of some underrepresented communities in Louisiana, communities that are vanishing or have vanished—communities including the author’s own.
Winner of the 2017 Louisiana Literary Award
PRAISE: “Legendary Louisiana Outlaws does contain fun, sharp-shooting, blood-and-guts stories of outlaws, but what I found myself enjoying most was the context LeJeune provides. His thesis, that these outlaw tales reflect their times, necessitates a description of those times; and I learned more juicy tidbits of Louisiana history than I expected.”—Country Roads
Legendary Louisiana Outlaws
--from LSU Press
From the infamous pirate Jean Lafitte and the storied couple Bonnie and Clyde, to less familiar bandits like train-robber Eugene Bunch and suspected murderer Leather Britches Smith, Legendary Louisiana Outlaws explores Louisiana’s most fascinating fugitives.
Winner of the 2017 Louisiana Literary Award
Winner of the 2016 Brian McConnell Book Award presented by the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research.
Always for the Underdog
--from UNT Press and Texas Folklore Society
In a fascinating exploration of the region, Keagan LeJeune unveils the legend of Leather Britches, paralleling the stages of the outlaw’s life to the issues facing Louisiana's No Man's Land. LeJeune retells each stage of Smith’s life: his notorious past, his audacious deeds of robbery and even generosity, his rumored connection to a local union strike—the Grabow War—and his eventual death. As the outlaw’s life vividly unfolds, the book reveals the area’s history and cultural landscape and how one town remembers and reinterprets the past.
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Gilded Circles and Sure Trouble: The Art of Josephine Sacabo and Keagan LeJeune
--from 21st Editions
In a new and exciting format for 21st Editions, this unique handcrafted set contains ten signed chine-collé photogravures by Josephine Sacabo, a letterpress book with an introduction by John Wood and poetry by Keagan LeJeune inspired by Sacabo’s work and illustrated with ten platinum prints. The photogravures are printed using Sekishu Japanese tissue on 16×20 inch Somerset Velvet paper.