Life and Adventures of L D Lafferty

The story chronicles the escapades of Lafferty through the Louisiana, Missouri and Arkansas Territories, the lands of the Old Settler Cherokees, and into the new frontier of Texas."e;L. D. Lafferty has been described as a rough ashlar of reckless daring and thoughtless intrepidity and a youthful adventurer who had fought Indians at the age of 15."e; - We Never Retreat: Filibustering Expeditions into Spanish Texas (2015)"e;L. D. Lafferty, a contemporary of Lafitte's, recalled that Lafitte frankly confessed that he had enough silver and gold on the island to freight a ship."e; -Mysteries and Legends of Texas (2010)"e;Lorenzo Dow Lafferty, son of a Tennessee Indian trader who followed the Cherokees to Arkansas in 1810, spent three of his teenage years (1815-1818) living in a Cherokee town on the White River."e; -The Arkansas Historical Quarterly (1997)