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History Matters: Bayou Dorcheat

Bayou Dorcheat
Billy Hathorn at English Wikipedia
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Bayou Dorcheat
Dr. Gary Joiner
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LSU Shreveport
Dr. Gary Joiner

Airs Tuesday, August 20, 2019, at 7:45 a.m. This week commentator Dr. Gary Joiner takes us down Bayou Dorcheat, in the Northwest Louisiana highlands, and Bayou Dorcheat's role in our history.

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.”