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Exploring the Brazos River
Author | : Jim Kimmel |
Publsiher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2011-09-16 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781603444323 |
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From its ancient headwaters on the semiarid plains of eastern New Mexico to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River carves a huge and paradoxical crescent through Texas geography and history. Its average flow is the largest of Texas rivers, but its floods, low flows, silt, and natural salt have often frustrated human desires. It is one of the most dammed of Texas rivers, but its lower four hundred miles constitute one of the longest undammed stretches of river in North America. In Exploring the Brazos River, Jim Kimmel follows this long, changeable river from its rocky “arms” in West Texas, through the stretch made famous by John Graves in his classic book, Goodbye to a River, to its lumbering presence as it flows, undammed and mostly untouched, down the Brazos Valley and into the Gulf of Mexico. Exploring the entire river system, Kimmel first sets the context of climate and geology that determines the characteristics of the Brazos. He then explains the ecological processes that define the Brazos watershed before focusing on four reaches of the river, from the headwaters to the mouth. Each chapter features the captivating photography of Jerry Touchstone Kimmel and includes maps, charts, and descriptions of the water, land, ecology, and people. To encourage readers to explore on their own, Kimmel closes the chapters with tips on where best to experience the river and the surrounding countryside. Amateur and professional naturalists and outdoor enthusiasts of all stripes will find Exploring the Brazos River a practical and inspiring guide for the introduction of—or re-acquaintance with—one of the most important, historic, and diverse natural resources in the Lone Star State. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.
Goodbye to a River
Author | : John Graves |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2010-11-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780307773357 |
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In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s 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 youth. Goodbye to a River is 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 river’s 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 ever-changing natural environment.
Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana
Author | : United States. War Department |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HWQXF7 |
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Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in the Year 1852
Author | : Marcy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UBBS:UBBS-00042640 |
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Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in the Year 1852
Author | : Randolph Barnes Marcy,United States. War Department |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044043164144 |
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Spanish Texas 1519 1821
Author | : Donald E. Chipman,Harriet Denise Joseph |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2010-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780292782631 |
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This revised and expanded edition of the authoritative history of Spanish Texas features significant new discoveries throughout. Modern Texas, like Mexico, traces its beginning to sixteenth-century encounters between Europeans and Indians. Unlike Mexico, however, Texas eventually received the stamp of Anglo-American culture, so that Spanish contributions to present-day Texas tend to be obscured or even unknown. Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 undercores the significance of the Spanish period in Texas history. Beginning with an overview of the land and its inhabitants before the arrival of Europeans, it covers major people and events from early exploration to the end of the colonial era. This new edition of Spanish Texas has been extensively revised and expanded to include a wealth of new discoveries. The opening chapter on Texas Indians reveals their high degree of independence from European influence. Other chapters incorporate new information on La Salle's Garcitas Creek colony and French influences in Texas, the destruction of the San Sabá mission and the Spanish punitive expedition to the Red River in the late 1750s, and eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms in the Americas. Drawing on new and original research, the authors shed new light on the experience of women in Spanish Texas across ethnic, racial, and class distinctions, including new revelations about their legal rights on the Texas frontier.
Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in the Year 1852
Author | : United States. War Department,Randolph Barnes Marcy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105032448511 |
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Adventure in Red River Report on the Exploration of the Headwaters of the Red River by Captain Randolph Marcy and Captain McClellan
Author | : Grant Foreman |
Publsiher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2013-05-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781473383562 |
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Any fan of exploration will find this diary of two soldiers exploring the western United States trying to map territory to place a reservation. Some of the language and attitudes in this book are hard to read from a modern perspective, native Americans treated as savages and moved and shunted around so the land could be exploited for material gain, if anything this makes this book an important book for anybody interested in how mindsets have changed.