'Casquette Girls' Kept Colonists From Taking Indian Mistresses

It was 1704. Settlements along the Gulf Coast in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana were primitive and conditions harsh.

To smooth those rough edges, young women were brought from France to marry the colonists. The women, largely penniless and recruited from orphanages and convents, had few prospects in France and readily agreed to sail to the strange lands of Mobile and Dauphin Island in hopes of becoming colonists' wives.

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