SHRIMPING IN OLD MUDDY

IN THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES, the , or “runners of the woods,” traversed the American continent from Canada through the Mississippi Valley hunting, trapping, and trading furs. They were some of Louisiana’s earliest European explorers and lived on the edge of the law. I must confess that in our youth, my brothers and I were like those runners of the woods. My daddy used to say, “If night didn’t come, the Folse boys wouldn’t know when to come