Running the river : secrets of the Sabine /
Growing up near the Sabine, journalist Wes Ferguson, like most East Texans, steered clear of its murky, debris-filled waters, where alligators lived in the backwater sloughs and an occasional body was pulled from some out-of-the-way crossing. The Sabine held a reputation as a haunt for a handful of...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2014
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | River books (Series)
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Growing up near the Sabine, journalist Wes Ferguson, like most East Texans, steered clear of its murky, debris-filled waters, where alligators lived in the backwater sloughs and an occasional body was pulled from some out-of-the-way crossing. The Sabine held a reputation as a haunt for a handful of hunters and loggers, more than a few water moccasins, swarms of mosquitoes, and the occasional black bear lumbering through swamp oak and cypress knees. But when Ferguson set out to do a series of newspaper stories on the upper portion of the river, he and photographer Jacob Croft Botter were entranced by the river?s subtle beauty and the solitude they found there. They came to admire the self-described?river rats? who hunted, fished, and swapped stories along the muddy water?plain folk who love the Sabine as much as Hill Country vacationers love the clear waters of the Guadalupe. Determined to travel the rest of the river, Ferguson and Botter loaded their gear and launched into the stretch of river that charts the line between the states and ends at the Gulf of Mexico. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781623491277 1623491274 1306407028 9781306407021 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
