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Goodbye to a River: A Narrative John Graves and Russell Waterhouse

In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in northcentral Texas For John Graves, this project meant that if the streams regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youthGoodbye to a Riveris his account of that farewell canoe voyage As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the rivers people and the land during frontier times and later Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its everchanging natural environmentFrom the Trade Paperback edition