![]() ![]() He intended to get in one last trip before the river was dammed, forever altering its landscape and, to Graves anyway, its spirit. Published in 1960, Graves narrates his float down a stretch of the Brazos River, Texas’s largest, south and west of Fort Worth. Having been gone from Texas for a couple years I’ve retained a general interest in its history and traditions, and I used the opportunity to read John Graves’ Goodbye to a River, long considered a foundational work in the history of Texas conservation and about as good a work on the relationship between ecological history and regional history as I’ve ever read. ![]() In May of 2014 I returned to Austin for one last research trip before finally sitting down and completing my book on Austin’s history. ![]() Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. ![]()
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