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Running the River : Secrets of the Sabine / Wes Ferguson ; photography by Jacob Croft Botter ; foreword by Andrew Sansom, series editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferguson, Wes, author.
- Series:
- River books (Series).
- River books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boats and boating--Sabine River (Tex. and La.).
- Boats and boating.
- Sabine River (Tex. and La.)--Description and travel.
- Sabine River (Tex. and La.).
- Sabine River Valley (Tex. and La.)--History.
- Sabine River Valley (Tex. and La.).
- Sabine River Valley (Tex. and La.)--Description and travel.
- Ferguson, Wes--Travel--Sabine River (Tex. and La.).
- Ferguson, Wes.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (162 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Growing up near the Sabine, journalist Wes Ferguson, like most East Texans, steered clear of its murky, debris-filled waters, where alligators lived in the backwater sloughs and an occasional body was pulled from some out-of-the-way crossing. The Sabine held a reputation as a haunt for a handful of hunters and loggers, more than a few water moccasins, swarms of mosquitoes, and the occasional black bear lumbering through swamp oak and cypress knees.But when Ferguson set out to do a series of newspaper stories on the upper portion of the river, he and photographer Jacob Croft Bo
- Contents:
- A bend in the river
- Ignored, but essential
- Born and raised
- Lost towns
- Hidden fellowship
- In pursuit of old outlaws
- The river rat
- Too much snake
- Meeting Tidwell
- The favored sister
- Diving in murky water
- A sheltered cove
- The final journey
- Surviving the stake
- Hospitality and horror
- Guru and the gator
- Little boat, big lake.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62349-127-4
- OCLC:
- 869736303
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