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. John Graves Goodbye to a River: A Narrative by John Graves Signed Hardcover Januby John Graves (Author), Russell Waterhouse (Illustrator) 418 ratings Kindle 10.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 18.99 17 Used from 19.01 3 New from 197.03 5 Collectible from 29.
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. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. 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.
In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas.
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