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History Matters: Piercing the frontier via the El Camino Real

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published May 16, 2017 at 7:45 AM CDT
Historic routes of the Spanish colonial El Camino Real de los Tejas, the portion in the United States is a National Historic Trail.
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El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail
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Airs Tuesday, May 16, 2017, at 7:45 p.m. Dr. Gary Joiner explores the history of the El Camino Real, a royal road which spans the broad expanse of Texas.
 
 
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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