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History Matters: Steamboats

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published February 25, 2020 at 2:38 PM CST
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The Delta Queen docked at Mud Island, Memphis, Tennessee in May 2003.
© Jeremy Atherton, 2003.
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport

Airs Tuesday, February 25, 2020, at 7:45 a.m. This week commentator Gary Joiner looks back at the important role that steamboats played in the development of America’s interior.

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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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