History Matters: Louis Antoine Juchereau de St. Denis

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.

Published October 23, 2018 at 7:45 AM CDT

Revised St. Denis monument in Natchitoches. Natchitoches, Louisiana. View of monument to French colonial explorer Louis Juchereau de St. Denis

Airs Tuesday, October 23, 2018, at 7:45 a.m. This week Commentator Gary Joiner looks back at the explorations and Louis Antoine Juchereau de St. Denis and the Fort des Natchitoches which eventually became the city of Natchitoches.

History Matters is made possible in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine.

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Gary Joiner, Ph.D.

Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”

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