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The Decades-Long Effort to Tame the Wild Mississippi River: How Engineers Reshaped America's Greatest River
Jun 10, 2026
1h 18m 12s
Better Safe Than Sorry? My Radical Choice to Trust the World
May 27, 2026
28m 31s
The River Is Calling — Will You Answer? River Days of Action and National Mississippi River Day 2026
May 13, 2026
58m 26s
Lake Pepin’s Legends, Communities, and Future with Michael Anderson
Apr 29, 2026
1h 13m 34s
After Andersonville: The Sultana and the Cruelest Twist of the Civil War
Apr 15, 2026
1h 19m 36s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/10/26 |  The Decades-Long Effort to Tame the Wild Mississippi River: How Engineers Reshaped America's Greatest River✨ | river engineeringMississippi River history+3 | Dr. David Beadenharn | — | Vicksburg, MississippiMississippi River+1 | Mississippi Riverriver engineering+3 | — | 1h 18m 12s | |
| 5/27/26 |  Better Safe Than Sorry? My Radical Choice to Trust the World✨ | travelmemoir+4 | — | Better Safe Than Sorry? Slow Boats, Chicken Buses, and the Radical Choice to Trust the World | — | travel storiesmemoir+3 | — | 28m 31s | |
| 5/13/26 |  The River Is Calling — Will You Answer? River Days of Action and National Mississippi River Day 2026✨ | Mississippi Riverenvironmental action+3 | Michael Anderson | — | — | Mississippi RiverRiver Days of Action+3 | — | 58m 26s | |
| 4/29/26 |  Lake Pepin’s Legends, Communities, and Future with Michael Anderson✨ | Lake PepinMississippi River+4 | Michael Anderson | Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance | Lake PepinMississippi River | Lake PepinMississippi River+5 | — | 1h 13m 34s | |
| 4/15/26 |  After Andersonville: The Sultana and the Cruelest Twist of the Civil War✨ | Civil Warmaritime disaster+4 | Jeff Kolla | After Andersonville: The Sultana and the Cruelest Twist of the Civil War | Mississippi River | SultanaCivil War+5 | — | 1h 19m 36s | |
| 4/1/26 |  You Can Make It Illegal, But You Can't Make It Unpopular: History of Brothels and Prostitution in Mississippi River Towns✨ | history of prostitutionMississippi River towns+3 | — | — | St. LouisNew Orleans+2 | prostitutionbrothels+5 | — | 35m 21s | |
| 3/18/26 |  The Power of Story: How Cahokia Became North America's Greatest City, with Dr. Julie Zimmerman✨ | archaeologyCahokia+4 | Dr. Julie Zimmerman | — | Cahokia Mounds State Historic SiteMississippi River+2 | Cahokiaarchaeological sites+5 | — | 1h 18m 15s | |
| 3/4/26 |  Wild at Heart: The Natural World of the Lower Mississippi with Jack Killgore✨ | ecologyfisheries+3 | Jack Killgore | Mississippi Valley Traveler | Lower Mississippi | Mississippi Riverecology+3 | — | 1h 04m 49s | |
| 2/25/26 | Preview of 2026 Mississippi Valley Traveler Podcast Season✨ | podcast previewupcoming episodes+1 | — | The Mississippi Valley Traveler Podcast | — | Mississippi Valleypodcast+4 | — | 1m 52s | |
| 11/5/25 |  Beyond Plantations: Getting to Know Louisiana’s River Road✨ | LouisianaRiver Road+4 | Mary Ann Sternberg | — | LouisianaRiver Road+2 | River RoadLouisiana+6 | — | 1h 08m 07s | |
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| 10/22/25 |  A French Village in the American Heartland: Historian Jim Gass on Sainte Genevieve, Missouri✨ | historyFrench settlers+3 | Jim Gass | Centre for French Colonial Life | Sainte Genevieve, MissouriMissouri+1 | Sainte GenevieveJim Gass+5 | — | 1h 18m 46s | |
| 10/8/25 |  Learning the Language of the Mississippi River with John Ruskey✨ | river guidingMississippi River+3 | John Ruskey | — | Lower MississippiMississippi River | Mississippi Riverriver guide+4 | — | 1h 12m 47s | |
| 9/10/25 |  The Mississippi’s Forgotten People: Life on Shantyboats and the Margins of American Society✨ | shantyboat communitiesAmerican society+3 | Gregg Andrews | Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis, 1875 to 1930 | — | shantyboatsAmerican history+3 | — | 1h 20m 32s | |
| 7/30/25 |  Beyond Mark Twain: Faye Dant on Hannibal's African American Stories✨ | African American historyHannibal Missouri+3 | Faye Dant | Jim’s Journey | HannibalMissouri | HannibalAfrican American stories+5 | — | 1h 08m 10s | |
| 7/16/25 |  Tips for Traveling the Great River Road, Part 2 | Send us Fan Mail Our summer road trip down the Great River Road continues in this episode. We start just after Lake Pepin and make our way to the Mississippi’s confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois. Along the way, I’ll comment on the following places: the Upper Mississippi River National Fish & Wildlife Refuge; Winona, Minnesota; in Wisconsin: Alma, Fountain City, La Crosse, and Prairie du Chien; Dubuque, Iowa, and Galena, Illinois; the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa; in sou... | 1h 04m 27s | ||||||
| 7/2/25 |  Tips for Traveling the Great River Road, Part 1 | Send us Fan Mail It’s summer and many of y’all will be hitting the road to travel and see something new (or revisit places you enjoy). I haven’t done a travel-themed podcast in a while, so in the next couple of episodes, I’m going to go over the highlights of driving the Great River Road. In this episode, I start with an overview of what to expect from the drive plus some overall highlights. Then, I start a north to south trek down the Great River Road from Itasca State Park and ending at Lak... | 1h 04m 27s | ||||||
| 6/18/25 |  The Missouri River, Part 2: Channelization, Community, and Recreation | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we continue our detour along the Missouri River with part 2 of my conversation with Steve Schnarr from Missouri River Relief. In part two, Steve describes the process the Corps of Engineers used to channelize the river, how it changed the river, what we lost, and how some folks gained new land. He talks about a Missouri River bridge that was built over land, and about the hopes for commercial navigation on the Missouri River that just never seem to realize. &... | 48m 44s | ||||||
| 6/4/25 |  The Missouri River, Part 1: Geography, Ecology, and Human Impacts | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we detour off the main channel of the Mississippi River to get to know its longest tributary: the Missouri River. Our guide for this exploration is Steve Schnarr, Race Director for Missouri River Relief. We covered a lot of territory (like the Missouri River), so our conversation is split between two episodes. In this one, part one, we cover some of the basics of the river’s geography, including where it begins and how long it is. Steve describes what we know... | 58m 01s | ||||||
| 5/28/25 |  The First National Mississippi River Day: Building Community Around the Big River | Send us Fan Mail February 1 is National Baked Alaska Day. April 14 is National Ex-Spouse Day, but April 22 marks Earth Day. We’ve had these (and more!) national days celebrating things silly and crucial, but we’ve never had a National Mississippi River Day. Until this year. It’s long overdue. On June 2, we’ll celebrate the first National Mississippi River Day. In this episode, I talk with Michael Anderson, the Director of Outreach and Education for One Mississippi, about it. Michael be... | 47m 08s | ||||||
| 5/21/25 |  River to Table: Chef Josh Galliano on Campfire Cooking | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I have the pleasure of talking with accomplished chef and St. Louis area resident Josh Galliano. We talk about his path to becoming a chef and the family and cultural influences. He grew up in southern Louisiana near the Mississippi River, where he had regular access to fresh, seasonal products. Mostly, though, we talk about campfire cooking. Galliano prepares memorable meals on sandbars for a local outfitter, Big Muddy Adventures, and just generally loves th... | 1h 02m 46s | ||||||
| 4/2/25 |  Murder on the Mississippi: Frank Dodge Explores Identity and Deception on the River | Send us Fan Mail In 1964, four members of the Ku Klux Klan killed two African American men in Mississippi. The story of their murder and the following decades of stops and starts in the prosecution of their killers inspired my latest Frank Dodge mystery: Murder on the Mississippi. In this episode, I give some background on the murder of Dee and Moore and how their murder influenced my latest book. Murder on the Mississippi takes place on a Mississippi River cruise from New Orleans to Memphis.... | 26m 26s | ||||||
| 3/12/25 |  From Roots to Routes: Making the Leap to Full-Time RV Life | Send us Fan Mail Living out of an RV or van seems more possible than ever before, and, based on what’s out there on social media, a lot of people have already taken the plunge. If you’re someone who is curious about what it takes to make the switch to full-time RV life, this episode is for you. I talk with Patti Hunt, host of the RV Life podcast, and someone with plenty of first-hand experience. We focus mostly on her personal story as she and her husband made the switch from living in a hous... | 1h 00m 16s | ||||||
| 2/26/25 |  Holding Back the Waters: The Upper Mississippi Flood of 1965 | Send us Fan Mail In April 1965, the Upper Mississippi River surged to heights never before recorded, threatening to swallow entire towns whole. This episode plunges you into the chaos as the perfect storm—deep snowpack, torrential rain, and frozen ground—transformed America's greatest river into an unstoppable force. Journey from the imperiled bridges of Minneapolis to the desperate fight for survival in Winona, where 1.3 million sandbags stood between 15,000 homes and the raging river. Exper... | 36m 40s | ||||||
| 2/12/25 |  Before MLK: Iowa's 19th-Century Civil Rights Pioneers | Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, we uncover the surprising story of Iowa's pivotal role in African American civil rights. From the groundbreaking 1839 court case that made Iowa a free territory to the remarkable story of Charlotta Pyles—a formerly enslaved woman who raised $3,000 through East Coast speaking tours to free her family members—we explore how this Midwestern state led the nation in civil rights advances. Learn about Alexander Clark, a self-made businessman who successfully... | 25m 21s | ||||||
| 1/29/25 |  Uncharted Currents: Jon Kukuk on Growing Up in a Small Town Next to the Mississippi River | Send us Fan Mail You may never have heard of Dallas City, Illinois, but to the folks who grew up there, Dallas City was idyllic. The town had a small but diverse business community. Crime was rare and mostly petty stuff. The local streams, creeks, and woods fed a child’s curiosity. And the biggest playground, the Mississippi, challenged and calmed young and old. Jon Kukuk is one of those folks whose childhood was shaped by the rhythms of life in this small town next to the Mississippi.... | 1h 14m 20s | ||||||
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