When Lastie Dupre died at his home on Prairie Plaisance in 1886 at the age of 91 his obituary said he was “known far and wide as the wealthiest stock raiser in the Attakapas region” and a man “whose hospitality was commensurate with the large means at his disposal.”
He lived out on the prairie in a simple, nondescript home that was comfortable but far from ostentatious. It was the little ...