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History Matters: The Sabine Strip

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published May 21, 2019 at 7:45 AM CDT
Sabine River at Logansport, Louisiana
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Sabine River at Logansport, Louisiana
Dr. Gary Joiner
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Dr. Gary Joiner

Airs Tuesday, May 21, 2019, at 7:45 a.m. Commentator Gary Joiner looks at the rich and colorful history of the Sabine strip and the river that would become a border.

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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