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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... once an important route of commerce and transportation, so one can still see there a bit of this world as God made it, and find refuge as Daddy did and as I have done. Why am I doing this? Why would a woman over sixty decide to leave ...
... once an important route of commerce and transportation, so one can still see there a bit of this world as God made it, and find refuge as Daddy did and as I have done. Why am I doing this? Why would a woman over sixty decide to leave ...
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... once called the Lagarto Formation, but which Dr. Aronow believed to be either Catahoula or Whitsett. Ten thousand or so years ago, there was a tectonic period in West Texas and Northern Mexico when forces inside the earth upheaved level ...
... once called the Lagarto Formation, but which Dr. Aronow believed to be either Catahoula or Whitsett. Ten thousand or so years ago, there was a tectonic period in West Texas and Northern Mexico when forces inside the earth upheaved level ...
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... once dammed every streamlet , holding back runoff in thousands of small reservoirs . The prairies were covered with dense grasses where deep mats of roots held the soil in place and formed a cushion against beating rains and acted as a ...
... once dammed every streamlet , holding back runoff in thousands of small reservoirs . The prairies were covered with dense grasses where deep mats of roots held the soil in place and formed a cushion against beating rains and acted as a ...
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... Once out of sight and sound of civilization , I was overwhelmed by a sense of peace and well - being . I began to feel a lifting of weight from my shoulders — a lightening of spirit and a clearing of the mind . It took a mile or two ...
... Once out of sight and sound of civilization , I was overwhelmed by a sense of peace and well - being . I began to feel a lifting of weight from my shoulders — a lightening of spirit and a clearing of the mind . It took a mile or two ...
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... once had a row of small cottages to the side which were slave quarters before the war. The family lived closer to the river in times past in a two-story log house, but moved the house up to the top of the hill in 1884, I suspect in ...
... once had a row of small cottages to the side which were slave quarters before the war. The family lived closer to the river in times past in a two-story log house, but moved the house up to the top of the hill in 1884, I suspect in ...
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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...