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. 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.
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