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| John Graves In November 1957, John Graves set out to travel by canoe a stretch of the Brazos River he had known since boyhood. He wanted to see the river one final time before it was irrevocably changed by the modern world, with its dams, bridges, and bullet-holed beer cans. And, as the title of the resulting classic Goodbye to a River indicates, to say farewell. As Graves journeyed over the river, he also journeyed through the past, the history and myth of this part of Texas - the relentless Spaniards, stoic Tennesseans, and proud, doomed Comanches; the ambitious ranchers and dusty cowboys; the teeming buffalo and marching cows. And through it all, the timeless Brazos River. Graves' dog, "the passenger" lost in thought. Photo by John Graves. Southwestern Writers Collection. |
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