Reflections on the Neches: A Naturalist's Odyssey Along the Big Thicket's Snow RiverUniversity of North Texas Press, 2003 - 361 من الصفحات When Geraldine Watson's father was a teenager around the turn of the last century, he spent a summer floating down the Neches River, called Snow River by the Indians. Watson grew up hearing his tales of the steamboats, log rafts, and the flora and fauna of East Texas. So when she was sixty-three years old, she decided to repeat his odyssey in her own backwater boat. Reflections on the Neches is both the story of her journey retracing her father's steps and a natural and social history of the Neches region of the Big Thicket. The Neches, one of the last "wild" rivers in Texas, is now being subjected to dams. Watson's story captures the wildness of the river and imparts a detailed history of its people and wildlife. Profusely illustrated with drawings by the author and including maps of her journey, Reflections on the Neches will appeal to all those interested in the Big Thicket region and those indulging a feeling of wanderlust--and float trips--down the river. |
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... feet of water per year. It has its beginning in a small lake called Rhine Lake and is interrupted only twice by the dams of Lakes Palestine and Steinhagen (locally called Dam B). The river was called Snow River by the many Indians who ...
... feet of water per year. It has its beginning in a small lake called Rhine Lake and is interrupted only twice by the dams of Lakes Palestine and Steinhagen (locally called Dam B). The river was called Snow River by the many Indians who ...
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... feet and legs rotted until there was nothing left but bone, and since there was nothing for them to eat, they died of starvation. To this day, that hummock is called the boneyard because of the piles of cattle bones on it. Son Gordon ...
... feet and legs rotted until there was nothing left but bone, and since there was nothing for them to eat, they died of starvation. To this day, that hummock is called the boneyard because of the piles of cattle bones on it. Son Gordon ...
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... feet long, into a steep cutbank inaccessible to all but them. The predator they can do little about is the water snake. I once heard an account of a great battle between a large water snake and a pair of kingfishers. Aiming their attack ...
... feet long, into a steep cutbank inaccessible to all but them. The predator they can do little about is the water snake. I once heard an account of a great battle between a large water snake and a pair of kingfishers. Aiming their attack ...
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... feet above water. Being cold-blooded reptiles, turtles' body heat and, therefore, activity, varies with the temperature of their environment. Active when the weather is warm, they are dormant when it becomes cold, burrowing into mud at ...
... feet above water. Being cold-blooded reptiles, turtles' body heat and, therefore, activity, varies with the temperature of their environment. Active when the weather is warm, they are dormant when it becomes cold, burrowing into mud at ...
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... feet , sometimes into the limbs of overhanging trees . The slider is so named because he is the first to slide off the log when alarmed . Sliders comprise eight out of ten in the turtle population . The cooter ( the African word for ...
... feet , sometimes into the limbs of overhanging trees . The slider is so named because he is the first to slide off the log when alarmed . Sliders comprise eight out of ten in the turtle population . The cooter ( the African word for ...
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الصفحة 21 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
الصفحة 68 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
الصفحة 212 - Just as I am, without one plea, But that thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bidst me come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come, I come!
الصفحة 132 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.
الصفحة 146 - Heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour. — William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence...
الصفحة 133 - Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
الصفحة 132 - For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He shall judge between many peoples, and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more...
الصفحة xiii - It was for the sake of others that I first commenced writing biographies ; but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own ; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort of looking-glass, in •which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life.
الصفحة 146 - Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth ; a stranger, and not thine own lips. 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty ; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
الصفحة 53 - Four for a boy Five for silver Six for gold Seven for a secret never to be told...