Re French architecture:
 
Edwards, Jay D., "Cultural Syncretism in the Louisiana Creole Cottage,"
Louisian Folklore Miscellany 4(1):9-40, 1980.
 
Edwards, Jay D., Louisiana's French Vernacular Architecture:  An
Historical and Social Bibliography.  Architecture Series, A-1603,
Monticello, Ill: Vance Bibliographies, 1986.
 
Fitch, James Marston, "Creole Architecture, 1781-1860:  The Rise and Fall
of a Great Tradtion," in The Past as Prelude:  New Orleans, 1718-1968,
edited by Hodding Carter.  New Orleans:  Pelican Publishing, 1968.
 
Kniffen, Fred B., "Louisiana House Types," Annals of the Association of
American Geographers 26(4):179-183.  December 1936.
 
Lessard, Michel, and Huguette Marquis, Encyclopedie de la maison
quebecoise:  3 siecles d'habitations.  Montreal:  Les Editions de
l'Homme, 1972.
 
Thurman, Melburn D., Building a House in 18th-century  Ste. Genevieve.
Ste. Genevieve, MO: Pendragon's Press, 1984.
 
Wilson, Samuel, Jr.  "Architecture in Eighteenth Century West Florida,"
in Eighteenth Century Florida and its Borderlands, ed. by Ernest F.
Dibble and Earle W. Newton.  Pensacola:  Historic Pensacola Preservation
Board, 19761.
 
Wilson, Samuel, Jr., "Gulf Coast Architecture," in Spain and Her Rivals
on the Gulf Coast, ed. by Ernest F. Dibble and Earle W. Newton.
Pensacola:  Historic Pensacola Preservation board, 1971.
 
 
Not perhaps all backcountry, but a start.
 
        Cheers,
                M. Beaudry
                Archaeology
                Boston University