River of contrasts : the Texas Colorado / Margie Crisp ; foreword by Andrew Samson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crisp, Margie, 1960-

Series:

River books (Series)

River books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Texas--Colorado River Valley.

Natural history.

Colorado River Valley (Tex.)--Description and travel.

Colorado River Valley (Tex.).

Colorado River Valley (Tex.)--History.

Colorado River (Tex.)--Description and travel.

Colorado River (Tex.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Writer and artist Margie Crisp has traveled the length of Texas' Colorado River, which rises in Dawson County, south of Lubbock, and flows 860 miles southeast across the state to its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico at Matagorda Bay. Echoing the truth of Heraclitus's ancient dictum, the river's character changes dramatically from its dusty headwaters on the High Plains to its meandering presence on the coastal prairie. The Colorado is the longest river with both its source and its mouth in Texas, and its water, from beginning to end, provides for the state's agricultural, municipal, and recrea

Contents:

Early spring on the High Plains: headwaters

Impounded on the Rolling Plains

River revealed: Cross Timbers and into the Llano uplift

Another Colorado: the Highland Lakes and Lady Bird Lake

Living downstream: east Austin through the Blackland Prairies

Into the Gulf (almost): Gulf Coast prairies and Matagorda Bay.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-77235-2

9786613683120

1-60344-747-4

OCLC:

809317595