After Landry's death, Pelican was bought in 1967 by Hodding Carter, the Pulitzer Prize-winning progressive journalist. He renamed the publisher to Pelican Publishing House, but his ownership lasted only three years. In 1970, Carter sold Pelican to brothers Milburn and James L. Calhoun, natives of West Monroe in north Louisiana. Milburn, who became Pelican's publisher and president, was a physician in New Orleans; James, who would be Pelican's senior editor, did public relations work for Louisiana State University. The brothers already owned a similar publisher, Bayou Books of New Orleans. The brothers were, like Landry, conservative; among the first books issued under their ownership was The Real Spiro Agnew: Commonsense Quotations of a Household Word, edited by James Calhoun.
