Reflections on the Neches : a Naturalist's Odyssey along the Big Thicket's Snow River.
A sixty-three-year-old woman builds a backwater boat and journeys down the Neches River in East Texas, telling both the story of her river float trip and the natural history and folklore of the region. Profusely illustrated with maps, drawings, and photographs, it will appeal to all interested in th...
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University of North Texas Press,
2003
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| Series: | Temple Big Thicket Series #3.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Maps and Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Geomorphology; Floods; Area Map of Neches River; Part One; Detail Maps; Part One, Day 1; Launch off Part One; Town Bluff; McQueen's Landing; River Residents; Birds; Turtles; Aquatic Insects; Fish; George Smythe; Family Farm; Lakes; Cowart's Bend; Part One, Day 2; Buried Forest; Sycamores; Round Lake and Buzzards; Beavers; Canyonlands; "Nigger" Bend; Work's Bluff; Night Sounds; Owls; Wild Geese; Part One, Day 3; Bob Parvin; Red Bluff; Thompson Cemetery; Town Ants; Sheffield's Ferry. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Sheffield's Ferry BridgePart Two; Detail Maps; Part Two, Day 1; Scott's Landing; Dogs; Joe's Lake Pasture; Wolves and Panthers; Little Critters; Bingham Lake; Hord's Bend; First Night; Explorer Scouts and Fog Flow; Part Two, Day 2; Second Day; Armadillos; Three Rivers; Cat Eason; Wright's Landing; Willis Payne Camp; Martin Ramer; Second Night; Part Two, Day 3; Third Day; Smith's Bend; The Ranch; Bush Lake; Pebble Island; Sand; Crawfish; I.C. Eason; Part Two, Day 4; Log Rafting; Yellow Bluff; Sally Withers Lake; Alligators; The Clan MacBaean; David Crockett; Hardin-Tyler County Line. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Ivory-billed WoodpeckerTimber Slough and Peach Tree Ridge; Ernest Spell; River Float Trips; Gourdvine Eddy; Caney Head and the Dog People; Gene Barrington; Houston Thompson; War in the Bottomlands; National Park Service in the Bottomlands; Holifield Family; Jim Burns' Beer Joint; Indian Piney Woods; The Old Wagon Road; Jack Gore Baygall; Jack Gore Baygall Unit; Neches Bottom Unit; The Last Bear Hunt; Bear Man's Bluff; Part Two, Day 5; Gore Landing; Riverboats; Pearl River Bend; Goat Neck Bend and Almond Hole; Rabbits; Evadale Bridge; Part Three; Detail Maps; Part Three, Day 1; Evadale. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Honkytonk Road and Country MusicIndian Mounds; Bats; Gentry Lake; Weiss Bluff; Shinny Lake; Jasper-Orange County Line; Village Creek; Lakeview; Part Three, Day 1, First Night; Part Three, Day 2; L.N.V.A. Canal; Cypress Island; Mosquitoes; Regal Fern Bog; Four Oaks Ranch; George Burge; Scatterman Lake; Bunn's Bluff; Charlie Schwartz; Pine Island Bayou; Snakes; Cook's Lake; Saga of the Bayou Queen; George Bush; Beaumont; Conclusion, Part Three; Index. | |
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